Sonic Unleashed
SCORE: 56
Who out there thought we needed a darker Sonic video game? After all there are the Shadow games. Sonic Unleashed is Sega’s attempt to make Sonic part hack and slash, and part normal action levels. Sonic has been considered family friendly for a long time. Sonic Unleashed takes a stab at destroying that image. My hope and prayer is that after reading this review you will avoid Sonic Unleashed like intelligent people avoid the GTA games.
Half of Sonic Unleashed is dark, and half is light. I suppose one could look at this game, and feel a ying-yang. Sonic turns into a Werewolf, or WereSonic, or whatever you want to call that hideous looking creature. Sonic games normally have some mild violence where you are breaking robots apart. The saving grace has always been you are freeing enslaved little woodland creatures. I always found it funny how large Sonic was, and how these other animals were so small. Considering in real like hedgehogs are pretty tiny. The hack and slash of the dark levels in Sonic Unleashed is mind-numbingly pointless. The video scenes in Sonic Unleashed are fantastic.
The music is okay in Sonic Unleashed. Plenty of standard Sonic sounds. The whole growling dark Sonic did not work for me at all. The sounds in the hack and slash levels were also annoying. The normal levels had enough decent sounds to save this section from failing.
Sonic Unleashed contains enough levels to keep most gamers busy. The length of this game is decent, and there are a lot of levels to unlock. In fact you only start with one playable level. I feel like I wasted my money on Sonic Unleashed. If just a few thousand can learn from my mistake I will feel better.
Sonic Unleashed is nearly unplayable. I hate saying that because I really like Sonic as a franchise. This game has strayed way too far off the beaten path though. The hack and slash levels are annoying, boring, frustrating, and wasteful. The normal Sonic levels are mildly better. The controls are lose, and the speed is amped up. I would constantly run into things before I knew they were there. The little room to move was usually worthless. I had no fun playing Sonic Unleashed whatsoever.
The main lesson I learned from Sonic
Unleashed was to use whatever force I needed to get my way. Become dark
to defeat dark is another lesson. Sega went part in with the whole
darkness, but tried to keep the other foot in the sunlight. Gamers are
intelligent to realize this lukewarm approach is not going to satisfy
either side. There have been enough dark kind of Sonic games. I implore
Sega to bring him back into the light.
- Luke
Graphics: 48%
Sound: 72%
Replay/Extras: 77%
Gameplay: 30%
Family Friendly Factor: 54%
System: Xbox 360/PS2/Wii/Playstation 3
Publisher: Sega
Rating:
'E10+' for Everyone 10+
{Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence}
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