...and the verdict is...
6.0 360
6.5 Wii
How the holy hell can this franchise be such shit... This game looks awesome, but alas another peanut turd.
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.
Sonic Unleashed GI review....
"i guess it was expected...."Yeah your right, but this one actually looked like it may have been the one to turn the corner...
Game Informer likes giving out unnecessarily high scores too...
"How the holy hell can this franchise be such shit... This game looks awesome, but alas another peanut turd."Maybe the game is awesome...you think the game looks awesome but immediately turn your shoulder after one review, not to mention the fact that you haven't actually played the game yourself.
It looked good until I found out about the stupid Were-Sonic crap. Just give me a 3D sonic in a 2D plane damn it...
6.5 is still exceeding my expectations. I hope all 6.5 of those hard earned points were for the Hideki Naganuma soundtrack i've been so eagerly awaiting and had no game been attached to such musical brilliance, it would have got a straight up 10.
"I glanced at the IGN review and the problem lies in the nighttime sections... daytime is supposedly pretty awesome, but Sonic as a werehog is too damn slow and ruins the game."But we all knew that already right? I mean, common sense says that Sega would throw that in there and make a mediocre beat em up that feels totally out of place.
I think most of us expected very little after hearing about the werewolf. It's just a shame that after two pretty disappointing games, or arguably even 5-6, Sega still doesn't get it.
Edit: Regardless of the scores it receives.
"I glanced at the IGN review and the problem lies in the nighttime sections... daytime is supposedly pretty awesome, but Sonic as a werehog is too damn slow and ruins the game."Yeah, that's right. Do you have anymore excuses for why Sonic just isn't as awesome as you wish he was?
Where is it? Where is it........ah, here it is!
Ah hem, I'll never be fooled again!
"It looked good until I found out about the stupid Were-Sonic crap. Just give me a 3D sonic in a 2D plane damn it..."BINGO! The videos that someone put up a few days ago got me all giddy, because it was almost exactly what I would've wanted: the Chaos Emerald pipe hidden level point of view that switches back into the 2D plane like Klonoa. It's the perfect way to make a Sonic game.
"Dalai said:I think the excuses ran out over 2 years ago... Sonic is pretty much a lost cause unless Sega decides to put him on hiatus for a good 5-10 years."I glanced at the IGN review and the problem lies in the nighttime sections... daytime is supposedly pretty awesome, but Sonic as a werehog is too damn slow and ruins the game."Yeah, that's right. Do you have anymore excuses for why Sonic just isn't as awesome as you wish he was?"
TAKE THIS FUCKING FRANCHISE AWAY FROM SONIC TEAM.
IGN have called the Warehog levels "abysmal". That was contested by another member of their staff who argued they were-hog in fact "retarded"
"I was playing a flash Sonic game in a library today (because I didn't have anything else to do) and some like, 11-13 year old kids walk by talking about how crappy sonic is.Cause Sonic Team suck nuts.
10 years ago, they would be talking in awe about Sonic.
Why has he been butchered so?"
How simple can it be...make a 2D game, on the Virtual Libraries. Jeez, all they have to do is make Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and make it a good game, bam, you have Sonic back.
But no, there just too damn retarded to get it through there heads as to what the fans want...
Ive given up on Sonic. Game Over.
"It looked good until I found out about the stupid Were-Sonic crap. Just give me a 3D sonic in a 2D plane damn it..."Absolutely 100% agreed.
"LiquidPrince said:Yeah Matt form IGN pretty much said that if it was a game filled with just the day time levels, it would be unbelievable. But we all know that games have to have a gimmick to sell."It looked good until I found out about the stupid Were-Sonic crap. Just give me a 3D sonic in a 2D plane damn it..."Absolutely 100% agreed."
"TAKE THIS FUCKING FRANCHISE AWAY FROM SONIC TEAM.Amen to that. Tomb Raider had floundered for almost a decade, and when Crystal D got the chance to make a game in the series they blew everyone away. I hated what Tomb Raider had become, it's amazing what you can do if you give either your property to another set of eyes or heed what players want.I know they're named after the character and everything, but they have done nothing but ruin it. Dimps makes good Sonic games! Give Dimps the next full game! Hell, I don't care who you give it to, just take it away from the people who have time and time again put out crap.I still don't feel like Sonic is unsavable. Look at what happened to Tomb Raider - it was the laughingstock of the industry, and then it switched to a new developer and suddenly was awesome again. Do the same for Sonic. Please, Sega, stop repeating the fucking cycle."
Sonic Team has had it'schance. I'll give this game a shot, but it seems like the #1 thing everyone was complaining about since the roughly the first trailer, turns out to be completely validated. The night time stages are poor and clunky....wow...
...Surprise.... *sigh*
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