Sonic Unleashed for Wii is lackluster. The game is far too easy to play and beat. There's barely any depth to it at all.
Sonic is so slow in this game. It looks like he going for a jog when running normally. The Speed boost is good but not by a lot. It only helps so much. The fact that he can spindash when boosting and hitting a dash panel is a plus. It actually makes him look fast, but overall he's still slow. In comparision with 360 version the Wii Sonic would have been left in the dust.
Content wise, this game is missing a lot of content that the 360 version has. Which is very disappointing for me and other hardcore Sonic fans. We don't even get a hub to explore around. Just a dark, dank castle or temple. We don't get a level up system for Sonic where we can bring up his speed and boost, and we don't get to search and find new item or power ups. There just given to him from the start. This adds to the problem of the game being easy.
The difficulty of this game is sad. Any dedicated gamer could beat this game in less than a day. Which is really sad. Also from what I've noticed between the two versions, the tails levels are missing from this game. Those were actually enjoyable to some extent.
One thing that really bothered me with this game is that the final boss fight sucked! It was too easy to beat. I felt so angery about that. It was barly worth playing at all. One final thing that is missing from this game that would have made it good was the buttom comand squence that they gave for the warehog and the insane combo system. It would have been nice to more than just 2 combos on an enemy.
The level designs are nice and beautiful to look at but doesn't leave much to the imagination, and I know my eyes aren't playing tricks on me but I swear on Spangolia when Sonic is coming down from the tower, in the background with the houses, they look like cardboard backgrounds used on old movie sets. It appears to me someone at SEGA Got lazy. Another thing about the levels is there are not that many different paths to the finish which in turn means not that much exploration of the level. One thing that pissed me off about this game was no Mazuri and no Empire City, and me and other Sonic fans really wanted Empire City. Probably the best level in the 360 version. That was a major let down.
All I can say about the werehog is this. JUST DON'T DO IT. The werehog in this game is pointless. The levels are bad and tiring. It gets very boring after a long time. There are potenially no combos at all in this game, specials are virtually useless, and the guard system is trash. The controls are bad and choppy. When I make sonic move he runs and when I make him run he walks. Every werehog board I've played I've died on because of the bad controls. Activating the werehog mode makes it crazy easy to beat boss' and enemy's. The werehog gameplay is just overall bad. Also a noted graphical difference between the two version. 360 = Awesome looking werehog. Wii = Wet werehog that looks like it was make out of clay, or maybe Sonic was using Super thick hair jell to put his fur back with. All I can say is that he just looks bad. SEGA = Lazy.
One final thing that I for one have found very retarded is the 2 life limited they give you. Instead of collecting 100 rings to be rewarded with an extra life, you get ................. NOTHING!
Whose bright idea was this. Continuely dying on the same board and getting a game over and having the start the whole level over really gets boring and repetitive to the point where you don't want play the game no more. Why they would give us a 2 life limit I don't know, but for future reference they better put back the extra life system or I'm just not gonna buy anymore Sonic games, Because this is rediculous.
All in all, I really wish I had a 360 because this game was an epic fail for me and friends.
I don't know where people are getting this idea that the Wii version is better than the 360 version, but all I can say is you better start taking your medication in double douses.
Unless you people like simple Sonic games where Sonic moves slow, is easy to beat, and has no depth with barely any content or gameplay then stick to this, because you people don't know what a good Sonic game is.
I can only assume that the softcore fans are rating this game.