- Price: £49.99
- Players: 1-2
- Widescreen: Yes
- 60Hz: Yes
- Dolby Digital 5.1 sound: Yes
- Xbox Live-enabled: Yes
- Downloadable content: Yes
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Remember those words as you'll see them a lot in this game.
In fact, even before I got a chance to play this game I'd heard a lot of disparaging things said about
it, but surely a new Sonic the Hedgehog game on a next-gen console can't be all bad, surely?
Sadly, while it looks nice, it is incredibly problematic on the counts that matter.
The basic story begins with Sonic having to rescue a princess that he's in love with. That's about it, but
really you don't really need a storyline for Sonic games, I just want the original Sonic style with next-gen
console graphics.
The first thing you'll do is take a walk round the town of Soleanna. That's right, a walk. You'll jump about
a bit shortly, but initially you'll have to speak to the people in order to learn where to go next, including
finding a store to help you cross the sea before you can get started on the game proper. However,
it's very disconcerting that when you 'talk' to people, they mouth words but no-one's recorded any voice
for them! And if you leave the speech bubble up, they just stand there continuing to 'jabber', making them
look like a pensioner that's gone a bit senile and no longer has control of their jaw movements.
I've never played much of any Sonic games where other characters have featured, but this one has you playing
in part as Tails, who throws boxes of rings at baddies to kill them, and Silver with his telekinesis powers,
plus there's appearances from Knuckles, Amy, Rouge and Shadow.
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