For anyone that has Sonic Unleashed my question is this: is it really as bad as the Gamespot review ("There is no fun to be had") suggests?
Surely not?
Sonic Unleashed
Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Nov 14, 2008
Sonic Unleashed is two different Sonic titles released in 2008 across four consoles. Both titles feature high-speed Sonic stages, slower-paced "Werehog" levels, and town hubs where players must progress through the story.
3.5 on Gamespot -- really that bad?
"From what i saw from youtube videos it just looked like the sonic stages were good and the werehog stages were not as good"Well I thought the Sonic sections looked great to but this review claims they are "poorly laid out" and badly designed.
My brother (he's 10) had been playing it, and completed it the other day. The night time levels looked pretty bad, but for what it's worth, the day time ones actually looked pretty entertaining.
Sonic judgement is too difficult to gauge these days. Fans of the originals will say anything to make you think the new games are worth anything and that seems to be the case with reviewers as well, not just civilian forum posters.
I played a little on the Wii. It's not bad, but it's not good. The normal Sonic parts are fun, but the Werehog are so boring... the only thing that compels you to finish them is thinking "maybe next stage I'll be able to play with regular Sonic again". It's not 3.5 material, but it's not anything special. I don't recomend it.
The werehog levels take so long and they become boring and a lame addition to add more length to the game.
"Considering the history or recent Sonic games...Yeah, I agree.
Shudder. (Flashbacks on Sonic 2006)"
I don't think its THAT bad. Lately GS has been very harsh on rating games lately they gave good games pretty low scores. I don't trust them anymore.
i would like to commend the one and only sole true sonic fan who is a developer at sega who decided to build the daytime parts, because that shit (although still a bit mediocre) is awesome and a step in the right direction. all the other assholes at sega who made the piss pore attempt at a sonic "teen wolf"/god of war game and these ridiculous suck ass cut scenes need to be fired. they are probably the same dudes who have ruined my childhood memories of sonic like 8 fucking times now.
BloodRavyne said:
"I don't think its THAT bad. Lately GS has been very harsh on rating games lately they gave good games pretty low scores. I don't trust them anymore."eh, i like it the way they've been, its like they're FINALLY using the 1 to 10 scale accordingly. for so long it really seemed like a 5 to 10 scale, and only the absolutely WORSE games got under 5. now they finally rating games the right way. if a game really does suck then it deserves a bad score. i'm glad theyre doing this.
This is why GB has a 5 star rating instead. Because if GB reviewed it it probably would be a 2 or 3 star game. Now a 3.4 converted to stars = 2 stars, which I wouldn't be surprised. The game overall is bad, the number you put next to it means nothing.
"This is why GB has a 5 star rating instead. Because if GB reviewed it it probably would be a 2 or 3 star game. Now a 3.4 converted to stars = 2 stars, which I wouldn't be surprised. The game overall is bad, the number you put next to it means nothing."But from that example, with the points directly scaling to stars, it really makes no difference.
Gamespot SUCKS ass at reviewing. They gave LostWinds at 5.5 when it for sure deserved at least an 8.0 rating considering that it was a WiiWare game that happened to have more in it then a retail game. Gamespot sucks.
"Gamespot SUCKS ass at reviewing. They gave LostWinds at 5.5 when it for sure deserved at least an 8.0 rating considering that it was a WiiWare game that happened to have more in it then a retail game. Gamespot sucks."Thanks for that unbiased opinion.
I have the Wii version. I give it a 5/10, its a good game...when your playing as Sonic, infact, It's an AMAZING game when playing as Sonic, but when your playing as the Werehog it sucks, and your playing as the Werehog more than the Hedgehog, so 5/10 it is.
-- God Bless.
Gamespot was the only one bitching so much about the game so far. It is ridiculous, how could this game have a worst score than Sonic the Hedgehog (PS3, X360) on GS and yet have a way higher metascore?! WTF VanOrd? They are damaging the metascore/gamerankings average, it is a 6.5 or a 7.0, not a 3.5.
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