Customer Reviews

Sonic the Hedgehog

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(29)

 

 

Everyone else has said it and I'll say it too. Horrible camera angles and extremely awkward controls. Load times are bad too. You'll find yourself waiting 30 seconds or more just to load a cheesy 3 second video clip followed by 30 seconds or more just to load the next stage. There are too many points in the game where you aren't really playing at all but simply pressing the jump button at crucial times and the springs and dash panels do all the rest. The game is a "learn as you go" style of play wherein the learning is not intuitive and you must figure it out by losing a life or two. This game is a disgrace to the Sonic franchise.

I was very excited to get this game when it first came out. I must say that the excitement wore off pretty quickly as I played through the game. It's definitely got it's high points, but the camera angles, the scattered storylines, awkward controls, and extremely long load times kill the potential.

Sonic really hasn't been the same since the Sonic Adventure games on Dreamcast, and also since the days of the Genesis..I'm hoping that the upcoming Sonic & The Secret Rings will help Sega redeem themselves.

This game's definitely fun to play, but there's too many flaws.

Though Sega lied about much of the problems from the Adventure series being fixed, those that can handle that and the load time will find in intriguing and somewhat fun addition to the Sonic series.

Though the town graphics seem sorta Dreamcasty, the rest of the games main stages are very fun and graphically appealing. Great use of colors and most of the textures are excellent. Many cut scenes are almost CG in quality, and despite the characters taller appearance, they do look really good. Voices are also well done.

As for the gameplay it is kind of messy still. Sega said they would have all the problems fixed from the Adventure series, but all in all some are even worse. For example in one stage your snowboarding down and suddenly the camera flips opposite, with no warning or anything. Later levels do this as well, but you eventually do learn when it flips (after several uncessary deaths).

Many unecessary deaths happen, and you'll learn to be very patient and sometimes will have to take it slow through the levels. Even the slightest nudge of the stick will send you careening to your death.

As for the camera, will it's very restricted too. you can reset it with L/R triggers, but the range is very limited. Tail's new ring bomb move is annoying in that everytime you fire it , it resets back to a default view, even with multiple enemies to hit.

Load times are horrendous. At one point you meet Tails, it loads for 15 seconds, you talk for about 15 seconds, then another 15 second load. This happens numerous times throughou the game, and on the action stages expect 2-3 different 15 second load times at intervals throughout the levels.

If you are a big Sonic fan, and can handle the issues Sega has had years to fix but hasn't, you'll find the game very rewarding and enjoyable once you get the hang of the levels. Otherwise give it a rent, it'll probably be one you either love or hate.

there are very few video games which lack at least one good thing to mention. This is one of them. This game is a total waste of time and money. The graphics are cheesy, the characters movements are choppy and erratic and at times they get stuck in a corner, the load time between scenes is extremely long. What irritates me most is that when starting a town mission, there is often a load screen, then a 5 second cutscene, and then another long load screen. Very very disappointing.

Don't bother even renting this game. It is by far the worst 360 game I've played. The most annoying feature is lack of configurable controls. The X-axis camera is inverted from what you'd typically find in a FPS game, and you can't change it. The camera gets blocked at the presence of any walls, as it doesn't move toward the character when encountering obstacles.

Definately do not buy this for kids. The game will only frustrate them. It has too many glitches, too many opportunities to accidently lose lives, and too many usability problems, taking away any chance of this game being remotely fun.

Thoroughly disappointed

I had heard many bad things about this game before I bought it, such as how difficult it was to play and how some of the story elements were just plain nonesense (such as Sonic having a romance with a human girl).

Now that I've played it, I have to say that it is not as bad as I thought. It did require a great amount of patience to deal with the controls, and I did have to play some of the final levels over and over again to win, but the game was by no means unplayable. The bigger issue is whether it is fun to play. I can honestly say that it could have been better. I ended up having the most fun playing with Silver, due to the fact that he wasn't always careening off the stage to his doom and his PK abilties were fun to use. However, Sonic and Shadow were fun to use when I was able to control them well. I believe the difficulty had more to do with stage design than anything else. I enjoyed playing with some of the other characters such as Knuckles and Rouge, due to thier abitlity to glide and stick to walls.

As for for the story, I really liked it for the most part. The only things I didn't like were the fact that Elise was the typical princess stereotype and that she and Sonic did have some sort of implied romance. That being said, it seemed as if Sonic wasn't the aggressor and it was Elise who kissed Sonic while he was unconscious, so I think Sonic's integrity has remained intact, at least in my eyes. I liked the rest of the story just fine and enjoyed getting to know Silver the Hedgeghog since that was the first time I had ever seen him in a game.

The bottome line is, if you're a Sonic fan, you will probably like this game in spite of it's flaws. However, you will need patience and a somewhat forgiving nature. I think the game is worth playing for the story if you're into stories, but I wouldn't purchase it if I were only into the gameplay. It simply won't satisfy you if that's all you're buying it for.

I was a huge Sonic fan back when I had a Genesis. I havent played much Sonic in between, but I have a Xbox 360 and thought this game would be fun and nostalgic. The graphics are great and the cut scenes are entertaining, but overall this game is a huge dissapointment. I found myself frustrated and angry to say the least at the lack of save options, glitchy gameplay and unbearable load times. Repeating entire stretches of levels over and over becuase I cant save after one level- I have to wait until I complete 3! Well that just sucks the fun out of it. I think I need anger management classes after playing this. I've found plenty of challenging and entertaining videogames for my 360, and this is NOT one of them!

I never write reviews on anything, although I enjoy reading other people's reviews (so thanks to everyone who does write them). This game was so frustrating to play that I had to write about how horrible it is. I recently got an Xbox360 and my girl friend decided to rent Sonic since she was a big original Sonic fan. We have been playing it for about 2 hours now and it is nearly impossible to control the character. The camera angles seem to be random and you have no way to control them. When fighting enemies you will be facing one, press the A (or X, depending on which character you are at the time) button to attack and the camera angles changes drastically. Enemy fire is coming in from all directions and there seems to be no way to smoothly control the character to attack them back. As another reviewer mentioned, you can't configure the controls at all. The only options are for video and audio! So in order to play you have to re-train your brain for the horrible user interface they put into this game. I'm used to an inverted look and total configurability (from playing Halo 2). As I was playing this game, I kept asking myself how a child would be able to play this game. I'm not sure how one could.

Bottom line: Don't buy this game, it is nearly impossible to play. I'm sure that after 5-10 hours of practice that I could have trained myself to handle the controls, but who wants to put that much time into just relearning? In the mean time you end up playing the same sequences over and over again! I left the room feeling extremely frustrated. I can't believe that a company could actually release a game that is this bad.

This was my first Sonic game on the 360 and it is really bad. The graphics are not much. But that's not the worst part. The game really proceeds slowly. I think there are many unnecessary loads. For example, when doing a little mini-game to get something you have to wait for 20 seconds until it loads, then some guy explains what you must do and I usually press A to skip, at once another 20 second load starts. The mini-game takes about a minute and another 20 second load. If you fail, the whole load thing starts again. The controls are messed up too as well a camera angles. Save the money and buy something else. I got so bored with this game that I just quit after couple of levels.

Now look here, I'm a huge fan of Sonic, I have been for over 15 years now. Even I, a huge hardcore fan is warning you kind people to not spend your hard earned money on this catastrophic piece of entertainment that Sega dares call a game. Look, this game is awful. If it's not the broken game mechanics then it's the plot hole infested story and if you haven't lost interest by then the horrible voice acting would have driven you insane. Now I know this looks bad but that's because it is. Sonic games have been MUCH better since this game (I'm writing this review in 2011). The Sonic series has been doing very well recently. If you'd like a good game from the series pick up Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Chronicles, Sonic 4 Episode 1, and/or especially Sonic Colors. All the games I mentioned capture Sonic's universe and character much much better that this game ever did. Trust me, I beg you. Buy any of the games I mentioned and avoid this game as if it were the plague. Also, yes fanboys, I BEAT THE WHOLE GAME.