In 2006, Sonic has hit the bottom. Bad gameplay, controls, new character and voices. Worst 3D Sonic Game Ever

User Rating: 2.9 | Sonic the Hedgehog X360
By Spaction3 | Review Date:
I have been a Sonic fan for years as many may know, I have loved near all the 2D games and I really enjoyed Sonic R (the first game in real 3D) and then the next generation of Sonic came with Sonic Adventure and was wonderful and also introduced more life to the characters in the game giving them voices and and personallity actions and many of them (except Tails, sorry but I didn't like Corey Bringas' acting though I did like his voice) and the gameplay was well designed and such and stayed so for a few years. Then in Shadow the Hedgehog the gameplay became pretty mediocre as did a lot more in Sonic, however due to the cliffhanger in Sonic Heroes with Shadow, the game did serve a perpose plotwise. Sonic Rush was the 2005 exception, good gameplay and music and decent plot yet bad voices (except for Blaze and Eggman) so Sonic Rush was a very good game. Sonic Riders I found degrading to Sonic himself speed wise as it showed Sonic as a slow and no board and gave him the worst diologue ever in a Sonic game done by the worst voice actor (glares at Jason Griffith for his performance of Sonic and Jet) and no good plot but I guess it was a good racing game. This game however takes the cake as the worst Sonic game ever made. This is not a reinvention of the franchise, it still has everything people hate, it still has every problem previous games had, and it has stuff that is just plan idiotic. This is NOT what if Sonic was real, Sonic Adventure already answered that well enough.

GAMEPLAY:
A Serious downfall in the game, I was hoping this would be an upside in the game, but it was a downside. Many glitches and bad controls con in the gameplay, Sonic's mach speed areas are frustrating and poorly made, in the beach stage, when you try to get a 1-up in the air, it causes you to fall and crash into a bridge and lose a life making the 1-up completely useless as you would lose it right away, and sometimes when you get hit JUST once it makes it impossible for you to jump and you can hit another object right away while you are ringless and you lose a life. And also some slower movments and bad reactions to controls make this a terrible game. Tails when you make him fly he immediatly propels forward instead of in your controls like he did in Sonic Adventure therefore ruining him as well. Knuckles and Rouge have a glitch on wall climbing that can often refuse to let them jump off the walls. Shadow I feel was a slight improvement making him off of the vechicles more of how fans wanted him but in these stages he is still way to realied on to the guns and vechicles too much. This is pretty bad.

GRAPHICS AND LAYOUT:
The graphics are great, but I don't care for graphics. The layout is good in some areas like the overworld of Soleanna but bad in many of the levels. I'm pretty neutral on this image wise however.

SOUND:
Music wise this has some pretty good music, some of the best I have heard in a while of any Sonic game, so that made this an upside. The voices however and I think those who know me know I am famous for starting a protest over this, and after I rented this game to check it out to see if it was as bad as I was expecting it to be, I feel no guilt in the fact that I started it. Shadow sounds so mellow, Rouge is still a hooker, Tails is still a girl (his voice is one of my most loathed since it first appeared on the 4Kids dub of Sonic X), Knuckles is still TOO angry, and Sonic....well the first two lines in the game were good, but everywhere else sucked, bland, emotionless, I hate the sound of the voice, and how he shouted 'WHAT" and "YAHOO" was bad. And Omega's replacement voice since Andrew Rannells quit voice acting did not do the character justace. Very terrible, 4Kids just degrades every character in every franchise, I still hate what they did to One Piece. There were three good voices however, Eggman was one, I expected him to sound bad and cheesy, but surprisingly he was awesome in this game, Bravo Mike Pollock. Bella Hudson as Blaze the Cat was also a good voice, I loved the performance. And the last once was Silver. Silver's personallity also took my by surprise, I thought he was going to be kinda dark like Shadow especially as Wikipedia labeled him as a neutral/anti-hero at the time but later he was moved to hero and I am glad, he has a wonderful personallity, and his voice was great, I have not heard a voice that sounded like a real teenager since Ryan Drummond as Sonic, Pete Capella was very good for that, a great voice and wonderful acting, FINALLY 4Kids provided a GOOD voice actor for a character. I feel that voice should have been Sonic's, but I still am glad Silver has it. He is the best new character in a while. While Elise is a Kairi ripoff and a freaking game incarnation of Chris Thorndyke, Sorry to anyone who may be a fan of her but I don't like her, please respect that and I will respect those who do like her. Welcome to the franchise Silver the Hedgehog, glad to have you here. But seriously, this 4Kids voice thing HAS to stop, it's destroying the most important thing about Sonic, the characters.

OVERALL:
I would completely avoid this game if you really care about Sonic, this is the worst Sonic game ever made and out of character in more ways then one. Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Don't even rent it, it's not worth it. While some my like it for what it is, of Sonic Obsessers, the sad thing is they will like this for the sole reason it is Sonic, if you are not one of those types however, good for you.

Way to celibrate Sonic's 15th Annivercary Sega, you ruined everything now.

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