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Summary: Sonic Unleashed
Comment: The teens LOVE this game, and it's not an easy one either, lots of challenges!! Great game!!!

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Summary: Awesome!
Comment: I gave this game to my son for Christmas and he loves it! Mint condition and fast shipping. Thanx!

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Summary: Fun!
Comment: A good game, some stages are hard to figure out. - quoted by an 8 year old.

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Summary: Sonic is back!
Comment: Like the title says, Sonic is finally back! I don't care what any other negative reviewer out there might say, but this game is excellent! When I play this game, I feel like I'm playing one of the great Sonic's from the Genesis alll over again.

The story is aight in it to. The way the story pans out and the cut-scenes look, things aren't to far off from one of those 3D animated Disney flicks.

The game starts out a little slow. For some reason, they have you do like 10 missions where you learn the easily understood basics. Which means you'll have to sit through all these loading screens to learn each separate starter move when you could learn them all in one single mission.

Loading is...okay. Each loading screen is about 5-10 seconds long and if you choose to restart from the pause menu during a mission, everything has to be re-loaded. This is different from some games where restarting is instant and without additional loading. So yea, if want to keep restarting that stage to get that 3rd moon/sun medal, be prepared to wait. You also have to wait about 2-3 seconds to load navigation menus once you've really gotten into the game. But outside of all that, it's nothing that won't drive you to insane.

The city parts seem a little meaningless. I don't know, but these city parts where you talk to people seemed "there" to me. All you do is scroll through these bubbles with the words "NEW" over them and read what people say until one says some crap like, "Oh! That place you need to go is there!" and then after that's been said, the day/night stage's are unlocked. It's still good to do the city parts since you can unlock extra songs/art work/movies from talking to the people and it's also one of the main ways you get the tablets.


The sense of speed is great. I've never been a big stickler about mega fast speed, but I like how it feels very engaging to blast off into turbo through the loops and chain your attacks together without a pause in between.

The Wherehog parts seem to be in heavier supply, but they're okay. I'm not far in the game, but I've only done maybe 3 daytime stages and like 10 nighttime ones. Though not necessarily slow, the where stages can be medium paced next to the daytime ones.

So far, I don't feel to much of a challenge from these Where stages either. I've unlocked a few abilities and skill level ups, but nothing seems to hard. I never get the feeling that I can't get away with running into a group of enemies and in turn receive no damage. The fighting is semi-deep, but I never feel engaged enough fighting the enemies. Perhaps since they come off so small and cuddly....

Daytime gameplay is solid though. Like I said before, the daytime stages really take me back to the old school Sonics. It's a blast to collect the line of rings, shoot off in turbo, smack some enemies, and just keep on going. It's a little difficult to get around corners smoothly sometimes with both sidestepping and drifting, but I'm sure that takes practice.

AH! I almost forgot....the music! I love the direction of music in this game. The music's more orchestrated and lounge-esque than that other (imo) bad rock they were trying to work into the series from SA1 on. I like what they've done with it and I hope they begin to use this sound for the future Sonics.

But chea, great game. Way more fun and less overly forgiving than "Sonic Heroes" and a great distraction. If you've given up hope in Sonic, lift your head up and buy this!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Game, but Werehog stages a little slow
Comment: This is the newest Sonic game from Sega and in my opinion is the best Sonic game since the hedgehog's Dreamcast days (Sonic Adventure 1 and 2). The daylight levels are great, tons of fun to play, the graphics throughout the game are gorgeous, and the game maintains it's classic cartoon-ish feel including some fun humor throughout. This game has received some unfair reviews from critics, they say the werehog stages are dull, and slow. While they are slow, I do not find them boring at all. They are very combat oriented, similar to hack and slash style games. This is a new concept for Sonic the Hedgehog, and I think it's nice to do something a little different from time to time. Is this the best Sonic game of all? No, but if you have always enjoyed Sonic games, then this one will be no exception.

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