Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Broken"

First off, the PAL version of this game comes with a very nice glitch: the cut scenes and movies are SLOW, you can hear the characters talking but by the time you see them actually talking the conversation will have ended. still no news from Sega whether this will get fixed or not. so keep that in mind before buying this game.

Introduction: In this game there are the main characters in story mode (Sonic , Silver & Shadow), you start out with Sonic and unlock the other two as you play the story mode. each character has 2 side characters that you can play with
Sonic: Tails & Knuckles
Shadow: Rogue & Omega
Silver: Blaze & Amy
you can only play with these characters at certain levels and at certain times during the level.

Graphics & Sound: graphics are ok, and the music is great (in game of course)

Story: the story is a bit weird but its not bad either.

Game play: the amount of glitches in this game is unbelievable, this would've actually been a good game if it wasn't for that. glitches include: randomly sliding off cliffs, falling through the floor while standing still, flying through vines instead of grabbing them to swing from one place to the other and other stuff...

Noticeable issues while playing with characters:
Sonic: Suddenly stopping while dashing on a wall, unstable controls
Tails: can only fly forwards which makes it difficult when you want him to hover to a higher location only.
Knuckles: randomly sliding while doing his combos
Shadow: hard to jump into a vehicle, slow compared to sonic.

Conclusion: I don't know what Sega was thinking or if they even bothered to test the game before releasing it, they should stick with handheld games from now on. I would not recommend this game to anyone. I'm a sonic fan myself and playing this game was just painful.