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Xbox 360 : Sonic the Hedgehog Reviews

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Below are user reviews of Sonic the Hedgehog and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Sonic the Hedgehog. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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A waste of a trip to the video store

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 43 / 63
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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

The Demise of Sonic is Officially Here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 29
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me start this review by saying two things: a) I never write reviews and b) I cannot stand when developers try to leverage brand to sell things, and then don't back up products with any substance.

In this case, the product is so bad, that I felt compelled to save other gamers the waste of time and money by writing this. Also I felt like developers knew that Sonic had a long lived and decent brand, and that they could push anything through the stores. As I described it to my gaming friends, Sonic for Xbox 360 is "offensively bad"

To make it simple:
- Bad graphics (non very distinguished from Dreamcast version, and falls way short of what other 360 games have to offer)
- Bad Play control (cannot customize controls, terrible camera angles)
- Bad Music (thankfully Xbox allows you to play it from other sources)
- Abysmal story and cinema cuts (you'd think they are addressing an audience that is 3 years old, not to mention that Sonic is totally anachronistic to what would be a decent Final Fantasy setting)
- Super buggy (at least this part of it is mildly entertaining, if not laughable)

Camera angles and control make this game horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Fall of Sonic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good job, sonic team! You've done it again.

The recent releases for the sonic franchise have been pretty disappointing, for lack of a better word, with an exception of Sonic Rush for NDS, and even with lowered expectation, this newest sonic blows hardest yet.

First of all, WHAT IS WRONG WITH SCRIPTWRITERS? I didn't know Sega hired potheads. The last time I checked, Sonic had a girlfriend named Amy, a hedgehog like himself. Now they ignored Amy completely and gave Sonic a new girlfriend. Yeah, now he's with a human princess and it just looks damn weird. A human 3x times the size of Sonic in his arms, and together they're running on a flower field. WOOPIEEEE!!

Second, WHAT IS WRONG WITH PROGRAMMERS? There are games with way better graphics than this garbage, and NONE OF THEM HAD THIS MUCH LOADING TIME. You go in a town, (wth, a town? is this really Sonic? sounds like a Japanese RPG...yeah I agree. sonic team had no clue what they were doing...) and you talk to a guy. LOADING. You listen to him blabber. LOADING. You're done listening. LOADING. Okay, you're off to go. You think I'm joking? No sir just try it yourself and be annoyed if you have nothing better to do.

Third, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE GAMEPLAY? I always liked Sonic for its speedy gameplay, but this time they pushed too far, and too many annoying monsters on the way to really enjoy the ride. If I wanted a game where you must defeat robotic-looking monsters, I would've definitely picked another game.

So basically, sonic team had no clue how to make a sonic, so what they made is a mix of many different games, with terrible loading time and terrible storyline. Music isn't that great either. Mediocre game at most, terrible in my opinion. Good luck if you're still going to buy this. =]

Sonic is slooooooow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Excessively frequent load screens, horrible animations, terrible camera, and absolutely BORING gameplay make this one of the worst games of all time on any system. I'm amazed that this title would pass quality control. The 360 has so much better to offer, skip this one completely and grab "Gears of War", "Oblivion", or "Lost Planet". "Viva Pinata" for the kiddies and sim fans.

RENT this game, don't buy!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

WOW!

I didn't know that someone could take such a great idea and turn it into the worst game in a great franchise. The reviews for this game were right on the money. I thought people didn't like it and were trashing it because it was Sonic. I'm so glad I didn't buy this like I wanted to. This game could have been a lot of fun, expect you have to retrain yourself on its god awful play control.

Loading times: The loading times on this game are awful beyond belief. This game loads more then you get to play it. What's up with that? You stop and talk to someone for like five seconds and then the game goes to a loading screen for like 30-45 sec. and then back to the person talking for like 5 sec. and then back to a loading screen. WTF!?!?!?! The game will even pause at points in the game so it can load right in the middle of you doing something.

Camera Angles are so bad that you can't even play the game in parts of it. And you die because of it, not because someone kills you. This game has this worst camera setup out of all the games I have ever played.

Game Play: [...], [...], sometimes is really hard to control sonic at higher running speeds. And forget about it at full blast speeds.

Graphics: A+++ this is the only thing that's good about this game. The graphics are really beautiful at times and really shows you want next gen system have to offer.

How TeamSonic or what ever their called thought this was a good game was sadly mistaken. Was this game not tested before they started selling it? I'm sure thats the case and they rushed it to the 360 before christmas so they could make some money off of this and then ported the same [...] to the PS3.

This is a rental for hard core sonic fans only. Not a buy. anyone else, don't waste your time or money. Sonic on dreamcast was fun, but this is nothing like that.

Do not trust the five star reviews. Sonic isn't good anymore.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: February 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Why are so many people singing this game's praises? I have it and it's the worst Sonic game yet. Sure, it looks pretty, but that's about all it has to offer. The controls are unresponsive and twitchy. Get used to falling off ledges to your death. You'll do it a lot. This game is riddled with glitchy gameplay. The camera positions itself so you can't see where you're going sometimes, and if you move it, when you move it resets itself. If you get this for your child/boyfriend/husband, all they will experience is frustration. No time went into testing this game and all the funds were spent on visuals rather than programming. This game was literally rushed to market unfinished.

Here are some reviews...

IGN: 4.8 out of 10
Gamespot: 4.4 out of 10
Gamespy: 1.5 out of 5
Gaming Age: F
1up: 5.5 out of 10
GameTrailers: 4.6 out of 10
GameInformer: 6.75 out of 10
TeamXBOX: 6 out of 10
Gamepro: 2.5 out of 5
Xbox Magazine: 4.5 out of 10

You have been warned.

Not the good old Sonic!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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!

Bad.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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. I've gotten past a few stages with no unlocked achievements to speak of and my gamer score for this game still rests at zero despite my internal game score of high thousands. 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.


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