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08-03-2008, 09:01 PM
Sonic The Hedgehog - 360 - PS3
Sonic the Hedgehog marks the 15th anniversary of our favourite blue hedgehog, Sonic. Happy 15th birthday Sonic! Lets **** it up by releasing a brand new game shall we?
WARNING: this review contains spoilers, but then again I don’t think anyone cares.
I really don’t know where to start with this game, seeming as this is my first review, it’s kind of a mix of okay and god awfulness. Well how about I start with what’s the story. There are 3 stories in this game one for each of the main character Sonic, goddamned Shadow and Silver, the new guy. You have to start off as Sonic and unlock the other two, I suppose that’s okay. Sonic’s story is that Doctor Eggman is attacking a town called Soleanna and attempts to kidnap the princess, Elise who hopefully will NEVER APPEAR IN ANOTHER SONIC GAME AGAIN! Doctor Eggman kidnaps Elise and Sonic has to go get her from him. Does this sound familiar to you? The story isn’t great because every time Sonic saves Elise she gets kidnapped again. I really don’t want to tell you the story because it’ll bore both you and me to death.
Shadow, god I hate this guy, has a story mode. It starts off has Shadow going into Doctor Eggmans base to rescue Rouge because their G.U.N. agents and- WHOH WAIT A MINUTE. Didn’t G.U.N. almost kill Shadow and didn’t G.U.N. kill Maria who saved Shadow’s life? (I’m not going to tell you the whole story you’ll have to find that out for yourself) BULL****! How can Shadow be so heartless? So Shadow, being the total **** he is, goes and does a whole lot of stuff for G.U.N. He also meets up with Mephiles the Dark who I actually like in this story; also he’s just a re-coloured Shadow. Way to go Sega for imagination! Oh I give up Shadows story is full of crap, shadow becomes a G.U.N. agent, meets Mephiles and fights him a couple of times, Sega has also throws in the levels in this story. Come to think of the levels, there’s only 10, I’m not joking there are really only 10, more imagination has been put into the game.
Finally, Silvers story. I kind of like Silver because he’s actually not a douchebag like almost all the characters in this game. Silvers story starts off in a destroyed future caused by the Flames of Disaster. Turns out that Silver is from the same world as Blaze the Cat. Wait a minute, Blaze the Cat is from the parallel universe, so what’s she doing in the future of Sonic’s world? We’ll leave this to the retarded fan-fics. So Silver’s goal I to go and destroy Iblis, A FIERY BEING WHO EXISTS IN THE FUTURE TO- hey what does he do? The future is already destroyed so why do Silver and Blaze have to defeat him? So after pointlessly defeating Iblis, although you’ll find out that he’ll just respawn later, Silver and Blaze find Mephiles. The two actually ok characters find each other and talk, one of the few great moments in this game. Silver is told by Mephiles to go kill Sonic to save the destroyed world because Sonic is the ‘Iblis Trigger’. Such a coincidence that Mephiles can travel back through time, Silver sets off to find Sonic. Sorry am I boring you? I’ll stop now because this only gets worse. I mean Silver teams up with Amy, Silver goes back in time with Shadow and we all know this happens, destroys Iblis and saves the completely destroyed world. Well that was pointless, at least I got to the end of this story. Oh everyone will already know that there is a last story when you clear all stories. This game has the worst ending ever, but you’ll have to figure out what that ending is.
THAT WAS JUST THE STORY MODE! Well, let’s take a look at the gameplay, Sonics brought the whole Sonic-Adventure-homing-attack-grinding-dope-ass-attitude-that-Sonic-has-put-in-almost-every-game-bonazza and he also brings a super mega hyper speed stages where it oozes poor control and with loads of obstacles in your way, you’ve basically walked into a death trap.
Shadow has the exact same moves as Sonic and brought the vehicles from Shadow the Hedgehog, goddamn it, and guess what? They still suck! Unfortunately Sega forces you to use them because you’ll realise that the ‘ultimate life form’ can’t destroy a train and you have to use a motorbike with missiles to destroy it. Now, you maybe thinking ‘That’s great I’ll finish Shadow’s story in no time!’ WRONG! You’ll finish it when you find out that skill is thrown out of the window and the vehicles will lose control and make you fly of the edge.
Silver brings a new way of gameplay with his new psychic abilities, which turned out okay I guess. Silver can freeze enemies and throw them, pick up crates and create platforms to help him. I guess that’s good enough to pass my gameplay mark.
You also get the supporting characters that sometimes appear in some of the 10 levels. For Sonic you get Tails and Knuckles, Shadows supporting characters are Rouge and Omega and for Silver you get Blaze and Amy. There is a code for the supporting characters, there’s a good supporting character and an absolutely awful character. It’s kind of obvious who they are, you can simply compare the two, for instance:
Who’s Better?
A whiney 8-year-old retard OR a guy with two MASSIVE fists that can BLOW YOUR GODDAMN HEAD OFF!
Who’s Better?
A bat who the fanboys wank over OR the Sonic the Hedgehogs version of Optimus Prime
Who’s Better?
A fiery cat that’s good at making you look like Two-Face from Batman, or No-Face OR a Slut who desperately wants to marry our blue friend
As you can see that now there is 4 okay characters and 5 god-awful characters.
We can all realise that so far, this game hasn’t done so great, well maybe because of the loading screens, it takes about 10 seconds to load up anything, a stage, a cut-scene, an another section to the stage, a boss fight, almost everything takes its time. Now you may be thinking ‘Rawpowered, ten seconds isn’t that long’, believe me, taking almost half an hour to complete a level, you’ll believe it’ll take far too long to do something. It only takes about 5-10 minutes to complete a level, no matter who you are. So you’d best play this game when you’ve got time. Controlling some of the moves given is can be a pain even if you’ve mastered them. Sometimes you’ll home-attack the wrong target, sometimes you miss the enemy and fall of the stage. You just can’t predict what you’ll do.
CONCLUSION
The game has some brilliant ideas and some good features but the are ruined by the poor controls that are given to you. Half of the time you’ll complete the level and be thinking ‘I can master the controls!’ and other times you’ll be gripping your teeth and smacking the controller in your face. But for some reason, this game can actually get into your head and somehow you’ll keep playing it, maybe because you’re fascinated about the story or maybe you’ll think it’s going to get better. Either way it kept me kind of amused throughout the story mode. Happy 15th Sonic! What will you do for your 20th?
Pretty Good Ideas
The music’s pretty good to be honest
Silver is Great!
But almost everyone else sucks
CONTROLS WILL EAT YOU ALIVE!
Did I mention Shadow sucks?
Overall Score
4.5
Written by Rawpowered
Sonic the Hedgehog marks the 15th anniversary of our favourite blue hedgehog, Sonic. Happy 15th birthday Sonic! Lets **** it up by releasing a brand new game shall we?
WARNING: this review contains spoilers, but then again I don’t think anyone cares.
I really don’t know where to start with this game, seeming as this is my first review, it’s kind of a mix of okay and god awfulness. Well how about I start with what’s the story. There are 3 stories in this game one for each of the main character Sonic, goddamned Shadow and Silver, the new guy. You have to start off as Sonic and unlock the other two, I suppose that’s okay. Sonic’s story is that Doctor Eggman is attacking a town called Soleanna and attempts to kidnap the princess, Elise who hopefully will NEVER APPEAR IN ANOTHER SONIC GAME AGAIN! Doctor Eggman kidnaps Elise and Sonic has to go get her from him. Does this sound familiar to you? The story isn’t great because every time Sonic saves Elise she gets kidnapped again. I really don’t want to tell you the story because it’ll bore both you and me to death.
Shadow, god I hate this guy, has a story mode. It starts off has Shadow going into Doctor Eggmans base to rescue Rouge because their G.U.N. agents and- WHOH WAIT A MINUTE. Didn’t G.U.N. almost kill Shadow and didn’t G.U.N. kill Maria who saved Shadow’s life? (I’m not going to tell you the whole story you’ll have to find that out for yourself) BULL****! How can Shadow be so heartless? So Shadow, being the total **** he is, goes and does a whole lot of stuff for G.U.N. He also meets up with Mephiles the Dark who I actually like in this story; also he’s just a re-coloured Shadow. Way to go Sega for imagination! Oh I give up Shadows story is full of crap, shadow becomes a G.U.N. agent, meets Mephiles and fights him a couple of times, Sega has also throws in the levels in this story. Come to think of the levels, there’s only 10, I’m not joking there are really only 10, more imagination has been put into the game.
Finally, Silvers story. I kind of like Silver because he’s actually not a douchebag like almost all the characters in this game. Silvers story starts off in a destroyed future caused by the Flames of Disaster. Turns out that Silver is from the same world as Blaze the Cat. Wait a minute, Blaze the Cat is from the parallel universe, so what’s she doing in the future of Sonic’s world? We’ll leave this to the retarded fan-fics. So Silver’s goal I to go and destroy Iblis, A FIERY BEING WHO EXISTS IN THE FUTURE TO- hey what does he do? The future is already destroyed so why do Silver and Blaze have to defeat him? So after pointlessly defeating Iblis, although you’ll find out that he’ll just respawn later, Silver and Blaze find Mephiles. The two actually ok characters find each other and talk, one of the few great moments in this game. Silver is told by Mephiles to go kill Sonic to save the destroyed world because Sonic is the ‘Iblis Trigger’. Such a coincidence that Mephiles can travel back through time, Silver sets off to find Sonic. Sorry am I boring you? I’ll stop now because this only gets worse. I mean Silver teams up with Amy, Silver goes back in time with Shadow and we all know this happens, destroys Iblis and saves the completely destroyed world. Well that was pointless, at least I got to the end of this story. Oh everyone will already know that there is a last story when you clear all stories. This game has the worst ending ever, but you’ll have to figure out what that ending is.
THAT WAS JUST THE STORY MODE! Well, let’s take a look at the gameplay, Sonics brought the whole Sonic-Adventure-homing-attack-grinding-dope-ass-attitude-that-Sonic-has-put-in-almost-every-game-bonazza and he also brings a super mega hyper speed stages where it oozes poor control and with loads of obstacles in your way, you’ve basically walked into a death trap.
Shadow has the exact same moves as Sonic and brought the vehicles from Shadow the Hedgehog, goddamn it, and guess what? They still suck! Unfortunately Sega forces you to use them because you’ll realise that the ‘ultimate life form’ can’t destroy a train and you have to use a motorbike with missiles to destroy it. Now, you maybe thinking ‘That’s great I’ll finish Shadow’s story in no time!’ WRONG! You’ll finish it when you find out that skill is thrown out of the window and the vehicles will lose control and make you fly of the edge.
Silver brings a new way of gameplay with his new psychic abilities, which turned out okay I guess. Silver can freeze enemies and throw them, pick up crates and create platforms to help him. I guess that’s good enough to pass my gameplay mark.
You also get the supporting characters that sometimes appear in some of the 10 levels. For Sonic you get Tails and Knuckles, Shadows supporting characters are Rouge and Omega and for Silver you get Blaze and Amy. There is a code for the supporting characters, there’s a good supporting character and an absolutely awful character. It’s kind of obvious who they are, you can simply compare the two, for instance:
Who’s Better?
A whiney 8-year-old retard OR a guy with two MASSIVE fists that can BLOW YOUR GODDAMN HEAD OFF!
Who’s Better?
A bat who the fanboys wank over OR the Sonic the Hedgehogs version of Optimus Prime
Who’s Better?
A fiery cat that’s good at making you look like Two-Face from Batman, or No-Face OR a Slut who desperately wants to marry our blue friend
As you can see that now there is 4 okay characters and 5 god-awful characters.
We can all realise that so far, this game hasn’t done so great, well maybe because of the loading screens, it takes about 10 seconds to load up anything, a stage, a cut-scene, an another section to the stage, a boss fight, almost everything takes its time. Now you may be thinking ‘Rawpowered, ten seconds isn’t that long’, believe me, taking almost half an hour to complete a level, you’ll believe it’ll take far too long to do something. It only takes about 5-10 minutes to complete a level, no matter who you are. So you’d best play this game when you’ve got time. Controlling some of the moves given is can be a pain even if you’ve mastered them. Sometimes you’ll home-attack the wrong target, sometimes you miss the enemy and fall of the stage. You just can’t predict what you’ll do.
CONCLUSION
The game has some brilliant ideas and some good features but the are ruined by the poor controls that are given to you. Half of the time you’ll complete the level and be thinking ‘I can master the controls!’ and other times you’ll be gripping your teeth and smacking the controller in your face. But for some reason, this game can actually get into your head and somehow you’ll keep playing it, maybe because you’re fascinated about the story or maybe you’ll think it’s going to get better. Either way it kept me kind of amused throughout the story mode. Happy 15th Sonic! What will you do for your 20th?
Pretty Good Ideas
The music’s pretty good to be honest
Silver is Great!
But almost everyone else sucks
CONTROLS WILL EAT YOU ALIVE!
Did I mention Shadow sucks?
Overall Score
4.5
Written by Rawpowered