Yes! A good Sonic game!

User Rating: 9 | Sonic Unleashed WII
By Sonicpower451 | Review Date:
Finally! A Sonic game thats good and fun! Sonic Unleashed is a new Sonic game. The Wii version is the one i got. Dimps was in charge of the day stages and SEGA and Sonicteam worked on everything else. Now, the Wii version is slightly different from the HD (PS3 360) versions. The differences are the day and night level designs, hubs are point and click gameplay, and some-what less features. Here is how the story begins. Sonic is on Eggman's space base trying to spoil eggman's plans again. Later, Sonic gets captured by Eggman. Sonic uses the chaos emeralds and is all "NOW I'LL SHOW YOU!" on Eggman thus, turning into Super Sonic and destroying Eggman's base. But Super Sonic gets into a trap and Eggman uses a machine to take the chaos emeralds away from Sonic. The chaos emeralds power up a giantlazer while Sonic suffers the electricity. Dr. Eggman fires his LAZAR and splits the world into 7 peices. With the world split to peices, a giant monster called the Dark Gaia is awakened after a long sleep inside the earth. When Eggman starts cheering, some strange thing is happening to Sonic. Suffering from all that electric, Sonic changes his form. His arms turn big, fur grows all over, and Sonic the Hedgehog is now Sonic the Werehog. Dr. Eggman sends Sonic down to space, making him fall down the destroyed earth. I gotta hand it to ya. This is one of Dr. Eggman's greatest plans. As WereSonic falls down, he is saved by the chaos emeralds power and lands straight on the ground. Then, he looks around and finds a new character in the game. A Chihuahua-like character knocked out on the ground. When he wakes up... blah blah blah this is taking to long. Later in the story Sonic calls the chihuahua character "Chip." Anyway, the story is very good and simple. Some cutscenes will have humor also. Mostly the cutscenes with Chip. You will also see some other characters like Amy, and Tails. So lets move on to gameplay.

The gameplay of Sonic Unleashed is really good. There are 2 types. 1 is the normal Sonic the Hedgehog gameplay. It's fast and awesome! And when you are playing as Sonic, the camera will move to the side and you will be playing in a classic 2D mode. There are 2D and 3D transitions in Sonic gameplay. Another thing is the controls are really good. It isn't like the Sonic 06 controls so don't worry. Also, if you see gameplay videos and say "OMG! Not Sonic and the Secret Rings gameplay again!" well it is not Sonic and the Secret rings gameplay. You can fully control Sonic. Now here is the other type of gameplay. Werehog. Werehog only plays in the night stages. Sonic in the day Werehog in the night. Werehog's gameplay is slow (But not super slow) and it's a "beat-em up" kind of gameplay. Swing the Wiimote and nun-chuck to attack these night creatures. When I played werehog, it's like i'm playing 2 games in 1. There are also some platforming elements. Oh and here is something fun. Werehog's attacks have him stretch his arms! You can use those arms to reach poles or ledges. Also try grabbing objects and enemies! When playing the game, your rank will be based on time. say for example:
1:20:00=S rank. You have to get to the goal before the S rank time in order to get that rank. One more thing. If you complete a stage, you will get some sun and moon medals to unlock missions. Now about the hubs. in the HD versions, the hubs are free roaming full 3D hubs. the Wii version has a point and click gameplay. It was pretty boring. You have to select the icons to see what happens.

Now I'm gonna talk about the sound in the game. First off, the music is really really good! Especially the Endless Possibilities song from Jarret Reddick. And if you thought the voice acting would be bad, it really is good! Jason griffith did Sonic really well! Especially the "WHOOOO!!" and "HURRAAAA!" during the gameplay. When you are Werehog, normal music will be playing. But when enemies appear and the music will change to an upbeat jazzy tune.

Hey even great games have some flaws! Here are the bad things about Sonic Unleashed. One of them is that there is too much Werehog. There are 3 acts for Werehog, 1 full stage for Sonic and 2-3 missions. yeah Werehog is fun but Sonic should atleast have some of the spotlight more than Werehog. Another thing is the motion controls. With Sonic, I shake the Wiimote for 3 times and Sonic finally boosts. Luckily there are Gamecube and classic controller options. So if you want you could use those. Werehog can sometimes be difficult with the motion controls cause it involves lots of shaking.

Anyway this is my review of the game. But i'm just glad SEGA finally did something good for Sonic! Keep this up and Sonic will get back on top!

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