Sonic is back with this new adventure
Game play: 9/10
For anybody who does not know the main core game play of sonic, you speed around the level to get to the end and then on to the next level. In this game, you hold the wii mote on it side and steer sonic around the level to try to get to the end of the stage. You jump in this game by pressing the 2 button and use the homing attack by tilting the wii mote as you jump. With these new controls, you feel like you are really playing sonic. For the most part, the camera has been fixed by but sometimes, if you try to back up, the camera won't keep up with you but this can be forgiven because all of this game is on rails. The single player game has you going through seven worlds trying to defeat Erazor Djinn at the last stage. To even get to a new stage, you are going to have to complete more than one mission to get to the next stage. To help you, you will get experience points at the end of every mission. Points can be use to get more abilities for sonic. Some of these abilities you are going to need to pass the stage. With experience, you can now make sonic custom to what you like him to be. The 2 through 4-player mode are all mini games. Some are great while others are broken. You will not find a lot here if you came for the multi player. Overall, the game play is great, just need fix up the camera at some points and get better mini games for multi player then it will have the perfect game play.
Graphics: 8/10
The graphic push the wii to some of it limits with the colors of all the stage being different. Sometimes, the graphic can get ugly but not that much to make you stop playing the game. The story mode graphics instead of using cut screen uses picture which is the easy way out for a launch window game but next time, use real cut screen Sega. The reason for the pictures is to give it a more book feeling then a real life game.
Overall: This game is not as good as the x-box 360 and a playstation 3 version but is still great for a Nintendo wii game. Story: 8/10
The story has change from almost every sonic game made. Sonic is contacted by Shahra, a genie who is from the Arabian Nights, who tells sonic to help her defeat Erazor. So sonic get suck inside a book to help save her world from annihilation or sonic world will be destroyed along with Shahra. The story is not the same for a sonic game but is still good. For all of sonic friends, they will be playing parts of the Arabian Nights like Knuckles is Sinbad and Tails is Ali baba. This gives the story a more Arabian Nights feel, which for this game is great. Sound: 8/10
The game returns back to the way sonic sounds. The 4kids VA voice hurts this game because the voices are bad. The voice do have it moment where it can be funny but for the most part, it sounds bad.
The music in this game is not the best. If you like the 80's rock music and stuff like that, then you will be right at home with the sonic music. If you don't like the music, it will grow over you in time for you to like it but it does not have the best soundtrack for a game.
Extra: 8/10
As you complete mission, you can earn more stuff. Some of this stuff is mostly artwork and extra mini games. Some extra will be easy to get while others are going to be next to impossible to even get. In the end: people have been asking if this game is one of the best or the best 3D sonic games ever made. Sonic and the secret rings is one of the best 3D games, better than the sonic on 360 and ps3 but the game still does it problems from being perfect. If you have a Nintendo wii for now, get sonic and the secret rings. You will be feeling something that you have not felt in a sonic game for a long time, fun with sonic.
Overall score: 8/10