Let me lay it out straight. There's not been any good game of sonic for a while,..... that is, until sonic unleashed, but it could be better without the werehog levels though. sonic used to be about speed, heroism, and all that stuff, but SEGA keeps making different gimmicks for sonic like mario and sonic at the olympics, sega all stars tennis, sonic and the black knight, they think that these gimmicks would make him better, but it turned out the other way around. Changing sonic won't make him better, he's already good, the idiots who keep making gimmicks, now there the ones who make him look bad, for example everybody loved sonic the hedgehog 1,2 and 3, sonic and knuckles all because sonic is not trying to be something he's not, he's not a knight, a car racer, a olympics contestant, he's being sonic, and that's why we love him! Whether it's 2D or 3D as long as sonic is doing what sonic should be doing not pretending to be some crappy tennis player, then maybe sonic will start getting respect again. Take note of sonic adventure 1, and 2 they were practically the best modern sonic games ever made and that's because sonic isn't some dumb car racer, it's because he's a badass, arrogant little hedgehog with an attitude. another example would be sonic rush, sonic chronicles: the dark brotherhood, they both got better ratings than the ps3 and xbox360 games of sonic, this just proves that the next sega all stars racing would have a low review rate not by gamespot not by critics but by us, the players. though, project needlemouse might be exactly what sonic needs, and in any case i propose they make a sonic adventure 3 for the ps3, xbox360, ps2, wii, ds, psp and pc. well, nuff' said!!