Not back on top just yet, but getting there. FIrst good Sonic game in a while.
GAMEPLAY:
Very good, no bad camera, and full on speed. The controls are frusterating at times, infact due to the new gameplay of the Wii Remote, it's like playing a video game for the first time so this may need a LOT of getting used to, it's frusterating, but it's not broken (except the Jump controls at times as they do not respond all the time). You will have to probably retry many times to get past a level, and other times, to finish it perfectly, you will need to gain some skills. There is ONE unfair gameplay element of this game, the races with Uhl that little blue thing of light and here's how: some of the paths Uhl takes makes it much more impossible for Sonic to win at times, especially the way Sonic dies, in Sonic Adventure when you played as Tails and died, you would get a second chance to be Sonic or Eggman from where you left off in time, but THIS time when you die, Uhl is still ahead making a win easy and winning for you impossible, and that's pretty unfair. Still other then that, most of the missions are pretty challenging and as Wii takes a lot of physical force, great excercise. Sonic start's slow at first but that's good, it helps you have the time to adjust to the Wii Remote, plus the first level is for practice to help you learn. This is pretty fun.
GRAPHICS & DESIGN:
The graphics are very beautiful, shows what the Wii is capible of. The level designs and such are wonderful, it's like you can do anything now as Sonic in any area, the level design can be a bit frustarating at times so it really puts your skills to the test, even if you are new to the Wii and even more so if you are new to gaming.
SOUND:
MUSIC WISE:
A lot of the music is pretty cheezy, some of it is okay, but most of it is kind of mediocre.
EFFECT WISE:
Sound effects you will remember return as well as others for realism, very good.
VOICE WISE:
4Kids still remains in this game thanks to them doing a crappy dub of Sonic X, while it is said they may be gone after this game, and I am really hoping, let's see what the damage is. Griffith still makes Sonic sound like a flat tone dork who sounds even more like a dweeb or woman when he shouts, Sonic realy needs Ryan Drummond back, he didn't try to make Sonic sound cool, he just had fun with it and that is what made Sonic sound cool, and the tone of voice helped add attitude, I hope he comes back soon. Sharaa is voiced by Bella Hudson which is pathetic as she hogs SO MANY female characters, and her acting is less enjoyable this time. Dan Green is worse then ever, he made Knuckles sound like he was from a bad fan parody. Tails, still as girly as ever. The only voices I liked are Amy and Eggman. However, this game comes with the option of Japanese voices, so I would switch to them for better voice overs.
OVERALL:
While this game as some faults, it's still a pretty good game and it has enough pros to pass as a great game for Sonic, If you have the Wii, I highly recommend this game.