Another woeful affair from Sega.

User Rating: 2 | Sonic Unleashed X360
By DonutHead41 | Review Date:
For all of its faults (bad controls, cheap level portions), the original Sonic games were very well-recieved. I have very fond memories of Sonic sprinting at lightning-fast speeds through brightly-colored levels. However, with the transition to 3D, mistake after mistake was made. First, Sonic X-Treme was abruptly cancelled, leaving the Saturn without a major Sonic game. Then, Sonic Adventure introduced sucky camera angles and hair-thin plots. Sonic Adventure 2 was the first game to feature the annoying heartthrob of emos everywhere, Shadow. Sonic Heroes and Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 drove the series to its coffin. Shadow's game nailed it shut.

I heard about Sonic Unleashed and was willing to give it a try, thinking that there was nowhere for Sonic Team to go but up. Boy, was I wrong.

The graphics are much improved from Sonic 2K6, but still look poor compared to other games. They've moved up from bad to mediocre.

The gameplay, however, is where the suckiness shines through. Never before has a Sonic game been this outright cheap. As in Sonic 2K6, glitches can cost you a ton of lives, but it gets worse. Unleashed adds the new element of outrageously difficult levels that require memorization in order to complete. I don't know about you, reader, but I much prefer a platformer that I can just pick up and play, like Mario Galaxy.

What's worse is, the stupid gimmick of the "Werehog" is not even justified by its levels. The Werehog parts of the game are dull, repetitive, and uninspired. More could (and should) have been done with it.

Overall, this is yet another woeful affair for the Sonic franchise, and Black Knight doesn't look much better. Sonic Team needs to take a step back and take a "back-to-basics" approach to Sonic before time runs out for the franchise.

Sonic Unleashed gets a well-deserved 2/10.

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