This is the first day I have been on Trap 17. And I noticed that a lot of my favorite game series aren't here. So I'm making a topic for one the games. This topic starts with a review but you can discuss the game here as well. OK. Now for the review.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
Publisher:SEGA





As a hardcore fan of Sonic I naturally enjoyed the sonic title. But I have to admit it had some flaws. One being the glitches. I have noticed that in the first set of PS3 titles pretty much every game had some glitches. But I think that the glitches in this game had the largest effect. But once you know it's coming it becomes an added obstacle. There were also some things that I really enjoyed, one being the super speed areas. They were a large challenge and were really fast. I really like games with extreme speed. And near the end it was so fast it was pretty much impossible to keep up with. I loved and hated this at the same time. The graphics were good and the game play overall was good. A thing that’s bothering me with new sonic games is that the story. The story is too much of a factor. It was better when it was mainly about Sonic just trying to stop Eggman and going through a vast adventure to do this. And there have been too many new characters. They should stick to the characters they have up to now and should work with them.

First Look
When you first see the game it looks good. The trailers (like most) make the game look really good. The cover is also cool. The back for me caused a minor setback since the slogans and description weren’t good and the pictures of game play weren’t the best. When I read the manual it was also made it look good and you begin thinking that the story looks interesting and you’ll like an intense story. When you start playing the cutscene looks so realistic. You get hit by how cool Sonic looks with the cool new graphics. After that happens and the first cutscene is over you see that the graphics won’t be as good as you thought. Sonic still looks good but other human characters have degradation (specifically Elise) in quality. Sonic and his pals are still really good quality and so are the robots and enemies you fight. When you actually play the first mission looks very simple but it seems like the controls are nice. The store also looks pretty good. When you play the first level you like the controls and will pass over the glitches not getting too frustrated. The amigo thing will also be something you’ll probably like. The mach speed area will get you frustrated, but in a good way. I loved it when I first got it.
RATING: 8/10

Graphics
When you first see it they are really good, and in a lot of the cutscenes they are, but in some they are very degraded, especially humans. I am not surprised about this and this has been the case in most games. But I was still hoping. Sonic and his nonhuman friends look great in most cutscenes and in gameplay. The vehicles and enemies are also top notch. Elise was a major eyesore in a lot of the cutscenes and the graphics of her were terrible. The stage graphics and the world was nice. The graphics overall were truly nex-gen. Some minor setbacks aside, I think that the graphics were a major positive point.
RATING: 9/10

Story
The story was pretty good, and if it was a different game it would be perfect. But it was Sonic. A really dark and shadowy story doesn’t fit with Sonic. I don’t think that Shadow the Hedgehog had this dark of a story. Make it less intense. If you make it less intense then the story can guide you to lots of levels that don’t really make sense but are still fun. The story was too real and Sonic isn’t supposed to be. Another setback was that the story was almost a copy off of the original Sonic Adventure. But it was a lot darker. And there were a few extra things like Elise that ruined it. The story didn’t work for me at all.
RATING: 6/10

Gameplay
For the main part it was fun. You Passover the glitches at first but when they start happening more in harder situations you begin getting really frustrated. And there are a lot of them. A good thing about that is that once you know they are there you can easily pass over them. Another thing that wasn’t nice was the store feature. You get all the power-ups from the store and there isn’t any challenge in getting them. Just play missions until you have enough rings. But using the power-ups was fun. And the mach speed areas were very enjoyable in the beginning but get impossible in the end. What sucked about them was that when they began getting long there wasn’t any midpoints. I would have loved if they were longer, but also had points to where you returned if you lost. Playing with vehicles and shadow was fun as well but I think that they were slow and weren’t really special power-ups, they were more like requirements. And now that I’ve played with just vehicles, I say bring the guns back. They made the game more fun. The chaos form was really cool as well, but lasted for only a short time and the bar took too long to load. Silver was a nightmare. The score is low mainly because of him. He’s slow. Flying with him is really impossible because of the camera. His fighting sucks and having enemies to where you fly too isn’t a good idea because you can’t fight them and can be killed before your bar loads. The large open areas of Soleana City are fun to run around in the Sonic and Shadow, but with Silver they are a daunting task. The amigos on the most part were fun to play with. Their levels were short so you didn’t really worry a lot about speed or power and could speedily get through them. Overall it was half good, half bad.
RATING: 6/10

Multi-Player
Multiplayer was fun. With Sonic it always has been. But this had major setbacks. The characters varied too much and what was easy with one character was pretty much impossible with another. Silver could fly over some parts and that would be really easy, but his combat was terrible. And you can’t play with Amigos. There were a lot of characters to play with in the previous games, but in this there were only 3. A larger variety would greatly be appreciated. It was passable.
RATING: 7/10

Mini-Games/Missions
I was really hoping for the return of the chao gardens. And maybe online play with them. Nothing of the sort happened. And the search for the silver medals wasn’t as good as any emblem search in the previous games since there was no point. The actual missions were fun but overall they weren’t hard to do or find. There was no riddle like element in them. You were basically doing jobs for cash. This was good, but not really good enough.
RATING: 8/10

Replay Value
The major problem with this was that you can’t play it again. You need another PS3 account to play it again. I decided to do it once. But in the end I had to switch between accounts too much so I deleted it. But I did replay the missions and stages, which were where the game actually got fun. You know exactly what you have to do and try to do it as fast as possible. You can see who can do it faster. Who can get more rings? It’s more of a compete to see who’s he best for me then just kill some time after you beat the game. I liked replaying it a lot, but only if others played it as well. When they stopped there wasn’t really anyone to beat or any point to replaying it so I stopped.
RATING: 7/10

Other Strong/Weak Points
By downloading the harder version of the levels off of the internet you can play a more challenging version of the game. But a lot of the problems were still in it. Another thing that was highly expected was that you’d be able to turn to super Sonic at any time you got 7 chaos emeralds and 50 rings. Nothing of the sort happened. We, the whole Sonic game community, expected a lot from this game we got almost nothing.
RATING: 4/10

First Look: 8/10
Story: 9/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Multi-player: 6/10
Mini-Games/Missions: 8/10
Replay Value: 7/10
Other Strong/Weak Points: 4/10
Average: 7/10
Final Score: 7.5/10

Who Should Buy This
Anyone that really likes Sonic should get this game. For anyone I think that it was just above the passing mark. If you really like Sonic and speed you should get this game. You probably won’t finish the game completely (All missions, medals, etc.) unless you’re a Sonic Fanboy, but you should be able to get about 20-30 hours out of the game if you’re a Sonic fan. If you plan to get introduced to Sonic with this game then don’t buy it. You’ll end up hating Sonic because of one of his worst games. If you’re deciding between this and another new game of a series you like, then you’ll probably end up better off with the other game.

I think that this game was a good starting point for the entrance of Sonic into Nex-Gen. When you try to do something with a new tool and use it to the best it can be used for, you’ll probably mess up at least the first time. SEGA should continue the game and not completely start over. This is a good base. I think it would have been a great game if they had experience with New-Gen consoles and had a little more preparation and planning to it. A few extra beta-testers would also have helped the game a lot. They should work on the next game for at least 1½ years before they release it to beta-testers and should let at least 100 people test it. They should read reviews and make the next game according to the things that pop up in them a lot. Then they should have a successful Sonic game that is truly nex-gen in every aspect.



Sorry if I'm breaking the rules but I couldn't find a place on this site where it told you the format for a review.

Anyway, discuss.

 

 

 

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Nice review, I like Sonic. If I ever get a ps3 I will definitely buy this game, I have been a huge sonic fan since the 90's, What I would do to your review would be to add more gameplay images just to give us an idea of how the game is like, anyways good review.

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Great review! Even I've been a 'Sonic the hedgehog' fan since a long time. But somehow I've lost interest in the newer versions of the game. They have become much complicated!!

I love the classic old game. Recently downloaded a 2MB game for my PC and I must say I spend more hours playing it than most of the newer versions!!!

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Nice review, i have always loved sonic ever since the old mega drive games, i really wanna get this but first i think i'll have to get a ps3 or xbox lol
i think i'll probably get it on ps3

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