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Lowest Price: $12.72 
Product Description: Sonic The Hedgehog, the Sega classic that changed the way games are played, has come to the Xbox 360 with exciting new features! For the first time, you'll be able to save your high scores and progress as you rocket through the seven gravity-defying stages that started it all. After you outrun Dr. Robotnik and his badniks in Original Mode, race through the famous loop-de-loops even faster with Sonic's trademark Spin Dash in Anniversary Mode which celebrates Sonic's 15th birthday. This special 15th Anniversary Edition also brings tunes from the original soundtrack which you can unlock as you finish the stages. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-02
Not the sonic I remember
I'm biased, but I enjoyed the 2D sonic from the old days. The least they could have done was put the classics on this disc, but they didn't (I know it doesn't take much memory. They could have done it). Buy used, at a huge discount, if you are getting. Rating:
Date: 2008-05-21
not that satisfied
i loved playing sonic the hedgehog when i was a kid, so when i saw this game i was really excited. my husband and i tried to play it and couldnt get anywhere at all. so now it sits on my stand collecting dust. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-11
what's next this was whack
This ruined sonic completely the storyline is whack the 2player mode sucks and kinda hard the way the you run and there's a space or a part you get stuck in, the old sonic games were more better with better storyline and design this game was a little off balance, so this game was'nt good at all. Rating:
Date: 2008-03-28
It's broken.
This is, unfortunately, a bastardization of the entire Sonic franchise.
When I bought this, it came in a box that said "Platinum Family Favorites". Trouble with that is it *still* hasn't grossed over a million sales, even if you combine the 360 version's sales with the PS3 version's sales and look at it globally. It's in the 700,000 range.
Enough boring stuff, here's the kicker: It's broken. This is not a finalized game. And the fact Sega can release a patch any time they fixed something but hasn't done so at all is incredibly disturbing.
This was the first Sonic game I've ever played on any console that I've had a game over on the first level where none of the deaths were my fault. I've gone through solid objects, bounced off of objects and fell and gone the wrong way only (unintentionally) to get a time over.
What seriously irks me is that this game uses the same physics engine that Super Smash Bros. Brawl uses (the Havok engine). This was not in debugging long enough to warrant this as the final game. A beta version, yes, but not the final game. Sega has done much better with Sonic and the Secret Rings than this game, because Secret Rings is actually playable.
Recommended for: NOBODY Rating:
Date: 2008-03-27
Sonic the Fan Game
This game is awful, it was rushed through and through. The bugs and load times really derail this game. Not even sonic can save this game, it's a down right abomination.
So why do I like this game? I don't know. This is a game I play for about 20 minutes, then eject it in disgust. Then the next day... for some reason, I pop it back in.
This game is confused of itself, trying to do too many things at once, and not really shining in any of them.
Take the adventure levels for example, these probably made a return because of Sega's "retracing" of why Sonic was so good. They saw that people liked Sonic Adventure and tried to mimick it. Unfortunately, the adventure fields were NOT what made Sonic adventure great.
What does stand out in this game is the Idea, the fact that this game COULD have been one of the greatest games of all time, and that in itself is a reason to own this game.
Also, the character models are incredible, the characters and SOME levels look stunning, especially the pre-rendered cutscenes. The music in this game is a different story, there are some really memorable pieces, and then there are the crappy ones that bring down the whole experiance.
Loading times! here we go. The load times are a monumental kick in the groin in this game. The loading scripts were obviously thrown together at the last minute. What I think happened in developement is this; They created a Universal load script that constantly loads and drops files from memory, regardless of what it's loading next or what it's already loaded. So each load screen, it has dropped everything from memory, and loads everything from scratch. There are major displays of this throughout the game.
So in closing, if you are a fan of Sonic, this game is definetly worth the price, although I do admit, randomly running around town is much more fun than any of the levels. If you don't know who Sonic is, or just looking for a good game, then pass on this one, I have no idea why I love this game so much. |
