One of those what-the-yelling-angrily-due-to-some-flaw-hurling-control-across-room-games
Graphics: Pitiful can describe it, this is a next generation consol, and on next generation consols the enviroment isn't 2d. The characters are undetailed and very similar. The enviroments varry but they still look ugly.
Sound: First off, seriously, enough of Japanese people doing the English, get someone from North America who has a North American accent and get them to do the English or is that to hard? It sounds alot better then some Japanese man/woman trying futily to sound like an English speaking person. They also tend to lack any sort of way to put emotion into their words. Take Crisis for example, all the North Korean voice acting is actually done by people from North Korea who speak North Korean because having someone speak Korean who doesn't have their accent sounds horrible. Actually, that applies to all games from other countries that are being released in an English speeking country. The music and ambient sounds are highly annoying and I found myself turning off the sound so I wouldn't have to listen to it at all.
Gameplay: I can some it up in a few words if you don't want to read all of this: totally and utterly frustrating and seemingly impossible because of camera and bugs. The camera is the main problem with the game. The camera is so impossible to control. One second its looking the way you want it to and then all of the sudden it swerves around to some wierd angle, starts freaking out and then you can't see a damn thing. That is very annoying in levels where you are going very fast and then the camera spins around, then you have to switch the way your analog stick is pointing so you don't crash, which would seem easy if it wouldn't do it instantly and randomly and you have to respond in less then a second or you are dead. The auto-save feature, well there doesn't seem to be one other then those gate things that you pass through that are placed stupidly far apart forcing you to do whole levels again because for some reason the idiots who made this game won't let you pause and save. I played previous Sonic games including the original and more donut coins meant more health, but not in this one, instead you can have a huge amount and a single bullet that grazes you will make you lose 2/3 of them making the health system total crap. The different characters you play as all have some flaw like Silver who for some dumb reason doesn't have a melee attack which is just stupid because the way they set this game up each character has to have one. I have had to remove the game and play something else or take a very long break so many times because you just get so frustrated with bugs and the camera. Some of the bugs are like suddenly dieing for no apperent reason, materilizing through surfaces making you die, things materilizing a centimeter away from you causing you to die, camera stops functioning thus making you die, the skatebord/snowboard thing getting stuck on something, getting stuck on a box just because you walked up to it, the skateboard/snowboard screwing up and preventing you from moving at all and if you can move it is random, and many more.
I am glad I just rented this game, and to anyone thinking of playing it don't even rent it, it is a total waste of time and is a disastrous attempt at making a sonic game, let alone any game. Plus, the multiplayer is just tacked on and you can't play the episodes differently so no replay value.