The most criminly underrated game out there!

This game rocks. to bad so many people hate it. I mean it's definently not perfect because all games have there flaws (especilly Super Mario Bros..) I would of liked it if Sonic Next-Gen (A.K.A Sonic the Hedgehog) (A.K.A. Sonic '06) isn't on the Wii. then I'd have more fun with it.

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

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.

Fall of Sonic

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  more

Bad.

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.

Dissapointing..

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.

NO Stars!!! C-R-A-P!!!!!! Not good enough for kids either.

Very bad controls, won't mention the old school looking GFX (are we sure this was meant for the 360??). Your view gets blocked more often than you play, easily die due to crapy camera style. Oh, lets not even talk about the hefty pricetag, thanks for nothing. RENT this if for some reason you want to torture yourself. If you want some sonic action break out the sega or dreamcast.

save your money

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.

The Demise of Sonic is Officially Here

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  more