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Transformed and unleashed, Sonic races to save the world...and himself. Sonic the Hedgehog is on an adventure unlike any other. Powered by an all-new engine, Sonic Unleashed blends classic Sonic gameplay with a variety of in-game perspectives to create an entirely new and unique gaming experience. Merging blistering 2D action with meticulously rendered 3D environments, players race through intriguing locations across the globe as Sonic to save a chaotic world.
A New Sonic a New Story
On a quest for world domination Sonic nemesis Dr. Eggman has managed to steal the chaos emeralds once again and this time drained them of their power. As a result not only has the Earth split into distinct sections, so has Sonic. Now he is two beings. During the day he is the usual speed-addicted hedgehog players will remember, but at night he becomes Sonic the Werehog. In either form it is the player's ultimate goal to find the missing chaos emeralds and return them to their proper place in order to set the world and Sonic himself, back the way he should be. Gameplay: The Two Sides of Sonic
Like nearly all Sonic games, Sonic Unleashed is platform-based. The game combines the feel of 2D side-scrolling that fans of the Sonic series love, with sharp 3D graphics, and throws in an over the back third-person perspective reminiscent of FPS gameplay for good measure. And just as in earlier games, as players race through and explore the expansive world before them, using auto lock to hone in on enemies and areas of interest, they will rely on the power they gain from the rings they collect for a variety of things, but with the new twist of Sonic's split personality, things are a little bit different. Playing during the day, as you race across the world in the form of Sonic, speed is the main goal. Collecting rings fills you with 'Ring Energy,' which not only provides extra life, but also the advantage of 'Sonic Boost.' With this players can travel at speeds that approximate 300 MPH. In addition, Sonic Unleashed introduces two new features: the 'Speed Drift' and the 'Quick Step'. Speed Drifting is similar to drifting in racing games, allowing players to slide around corners at high speeds, while Quick Stepping is a sidestepping maneuver allowing Sonic to avoid enemies with quick steps to either side. Both keep you moving as fast as possible, so you can get as many rings as possible, which again keeps you moving as fast as possible. As night falls and Sonic assumes his Werehog form the rings provide a different kind of power more suited to his more menacing appearance. Much slower, but also much more powerful, the Werehog relies on the rings to provide life as well as strength to shield himself from the attacks of enemies. This is necessary because Werehog gameplay, although based in platforming, incorporates significant levels of combat as well. Red orbs gathered as enemies are defeated allow the player to unlock additional combo moves that will supplement the hack and slash and arm stretching abilities that the Werehog always possesses. Whether Hedgehog or Werehog, no matter which form players prefer they will get ample opportunity to explore the two sides of Sonic since each area in the game contains both night and day segments where each form must be played. Key Game Features:
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On a quest for world domination Sonic nemesis Dr. Eggman has managed to steal the chaos emeralds once again and this time drained them of their power. As a result not only has the Earth split into distinct sections, so has Sonic. Now he is two beings. During the day he is the usual speed-addicted hedgehog players will remember, but at night he becomes Sonic the Werehog. In either form it is the player's ultimate goal to find the missing chaos emeralds and return them to their proper place in order to set the world and Sonic himself, back the way he should be. Gameplay: The Two Sides of Sonic
Like nearly all Sonic games, Sonic Unleashed is platform-based. The game combines the feel of 2D side-scrolling that fans of the Sonic series love, with sharp 3D graphics, and throws in an over the back third-person perspective reminiscent of FPS gameplay for good measure. And just as in earlier games, as players race through and explore the expansive world before them, using auto lock to hone in on enemies and areas of interest, they will rely on the power they gain from the rings they collect for a variety of things, but with the new twist of Sonic's split personality, things are a little bit different. Playing during the day, as you race across the world in the form of Sonic, speed is the main goal. Collecting rings fills you with 'Ring Energy,' which not only provides extra life, but also the advantage of 'Sonic Boost.' With this players can travel at speeds that approximate 300 MPH. In addition, Sonic Unleashed introduces two new features: the 'Speed Drift' and the 'Quick Step'. Speed Drifting is similar to drifting in racing games, allowing players to slide around corners at high speeds, while Quick Stepping is a sidestepping maneuver allowing Sonic to avoid enemies with quick steps to either side. Both keep you moving as fast as possible, so you can get as many rings as possible, which again keeps you moving as fast as possible. As night falls and Sonic assumes his Werehog form the rings provide a different kind of power more suited to his more menacing appearance. Much slower, but also much more powerful, the Werehog relies on the rings to provide life as well as strength to shield himself from the attacks of enemies. This is necessary because Werehog gameplay, although based in platforming, incorporates significant levels of combat as well. Red orbs gathered as enemies are defeated allow the player to unlock additional combo moves that will supplement the hack and slash and arm stretching abilities that the Werehog always possesses. Whether Hedgehog or Werehog, no matter which form players prefer they will get ample opportunity to explore the two sides of Sonic since each area in the game contains both night and day segments where each form must be played. Key Game Features:
- Sonic’s World Transformed - Sonic maintains his high-speed abilities during the day, but at night he is transformed into a mysterious dark form with incredible never-before-seen abilities including 3D-action brawling and amazing agility.
- Tight Navigation and Speed Control - Players accelerate to super speed with ‘Sonic Boost’ by collecting rings to increase Sonic’s ‘Ring Energy.’ Using ‘Quick Step,’ players will quickly move left or right to avoid obstacles instantly. Additionally, ‘Speed Drift’ allows players to rocket through turns without slowing down.
- Powerful New Engine and Cinematic Graphics - With its new proprietary “Hedgehog Engine,” Sonic Unleashed enhances the classic 2D perspective with mind-blowing 3D stages. Other next-gen technology capabilities include global illumination, grid computing, continuous data streaming and an intricate path finding system.
- Enhanced and Expanded Environments - Many unique and fascinating continents offer the player an opportunity to save the world in a dynamic, high-speed experience. In addition to exploring exciting unlockable areas, players dash through up to nine locations resembling real-life destinations including the Great Wall of China, Arctic Pole glaciers and many more.
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Sonic Unleashed [Xbox 360] For the Xbox 360
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Phoros
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sonic Unleashed is one of the better Sonic 3D games...
However that isn't saying much.
After the nightmare of Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 we finally see Sonic Team recover and realise that the world isn't willing to put up with the legions of new characters they usually throw in every new Sonic Game and only give Sonic himself a fraction of the Gameplay time.
Gone are the insidious Master Emerald Shard hunting levels (Yay!)
Gone is Shadow the Hedgehog's angst ridden storyline (Infact he isn't even in the game. A breath of fresh air!)
Infact all you really see in this game is Sonic, Tails, Amy, Dr Robotnik (Sorry, Dr. Eggman, showing my age somewhat here) and a sidekick called "Chip" (Sadly Chip has one of the most awful voices I've ever heard...)
Core gameplay in Unleashed is divided into 2 types, Daytime Levels and Nighttime levels, 100% Sonic Action in both sides! The daytime levels while unforgiving, are the closest we've ever gotten to the 2D sonic games, It's particularly delight to have blazing fast levels as Speed seems to have been missing from all Sonic Games since Sonic 3.
However when Darkness comes the nightmares return! The Nighttime levels, are extremely long, frustrating button mashing levels with extremely cheap deaths and inane quicktime events that are so unforgiving that if you don't complete the finishing move correctly the enemies somehow heal themselves back up to full health.
I certainly wish I was exaggerating over the fact that most of the Night time levels I tried for the first time either took well over 35 minutes to complete or I'd run out of lives near the end due to the extremely unforgiving quicktime event jumps where one button in a chain of approximately 5-10 buttons pressed incorrectly means an untimely death for the Blue um... Werewolf. That is not my definition of fun, maybe I'm just bad at those types of games? I cannot be certain, but I can certainly say most people will become instantly frustrated with these levels and dread when the game forces you to complete another one of them to progress through the story (And sadly, most of the time you have to repeat all of the levels due to a Coin GET system for unlocking new levels and bosses).
Overall, It's... not overly bad. It could be ALOT worse, however there is considerable room for improvement.
+5 Points for Sonic Team for finally getting though one game without mentioning the following words. "Maria" and "Chaos Control"
However that isn't saying much.
After the nightmare of Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 we finally see Sonic Team recover and realise that the world isn't willing to put up with the legions of new characters they usually throw in every new Sonic Game and only give Sonic himself a fraction of the Gameplay time.
Gone are the insidious Master Emerald Shard hunting levels (Yay!)
Gone is Shadow the Hedgehog's angst ridden storyline (Infact he isn't even in the game. A breath of fresh air!)
Infact all you really see in this game is Sonic, Tails, Amy, Dr Robotnik (Sorry, Dr. Eggman, showing my age somewhat here) and a sidekick called "Chip" (Sadly Chip has one of the most awful voices I've ever heard...)
Core gameplay in Unleashed is divided into 2 types, Daytime Levels and Nighttime levels, 100% Sonic Action in both sides! The daytime levels while unforgiving, are the closest we've ever gotten to the 2D sonic games, It's particularly delight to have blazing fast levels as Speed seems to have been missing from all Sonic Games since Sonic 3.
However when Darkness comes the nightmares return! The Nighttime levels, are extremely long, frustrating button mashing levels with extremely cheap deaths and inane quicktime events that are so unforgiving that if you don't complete the finishing move correctly the enemies somehow heal themselves back up to full health.
I certainly wish I was exaggerating over the fact that most of the Night time levels I tried for the first time either took well over 35 minutes to complete or I'd run out of lives near the end due to the extremely unforgiving quicktime event jumps where one button in a chain of approximately 5-10 buttons pressed incorrectly means an untimely death for the Blue um... Werewolf. That is not my definition of fun, maybe I'm just bad at those types of games? I cannot be certain, but I can certainly say most people will become instantly frustrated with these levels and dread when the game forces you to complete another one of them to progress through the story (And sadly, most of the time you have to repeat all of the levels due to a Coin GET system for unlocking new levels and bosses).
Overall, It's... not overly bad. It could be ALOT worse, however there is considerable room for improvement.
+5 Points for Sonic Team for finally getting though one game without mentioning the following words. "Maria" and "Chaos Control"
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Shigong Yin
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My son plays it. It seems OK to me. Mostly speedy, which I am not a fan of.
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3.9 out of 5 stars
74 reviews
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sonic's back!
Nov 24 2008
By Chaz Ashley
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I have to start off by saying Sonic unleashed is what many have been waiting for in a Sonic game, platforming mixed with speed and cool new things with less focus on side characters like Shadow and whatnot. I was both excited and dreading the release since the last few 3D games have been disappointing with gameplay and the number of glitches I encountered (specifically the Next Gen Sonic the Hedgehog game and Shadow the Hedgehog).
The game is fast fun and definitely polished, there's no glitches or agonizing load times seen in the next gen Sonic the Hedgehog, they took out the serious story with realistic looking characters and replaced the story with one of more fantasy with more fitting cartoonish characters. The levels go flawlessly from the behind the back running to 2D style running and they've added a few moves like drifting, boosting and quick dashing and thankfully removed the repetitive talking in the levels. The werehog was a big thing I feared from the start but it turns out it's like a less violant God of War (Literally down to the way he attacks, opens doors and finishes off enemies) and it still manages to be fun, though not as fast but it's okay and I'll say why later. You have to level Sonic and the Werehog up separately, though not to the extent of Sonic and the Secret Rings where you're running horribly slow, you go from fast to mach ten. Sonics day levels are pure speed and fun much like Sonic Adventure just MUCH faster when they have to be and more polished so to speech, the werehogs levels are slower but also more focused on combat and some light puzzles, where leveling with Sonic would get you more speed and boost, the werehog gets more attack moves, power and health, and there's also the Tornado levels where you fly with Tails to take down Robotniks (Eggmans) army which is more or less press a certain button to blow up a certain enemy..
The 360/PS3 versions are almost completely different from the Wii/PS2 in every way, the levels are the same theme but are completely different in design, there is no leveling for Sonic and it's done automatically for the werehog. The werehog is more of a button masher than it is the 360/PS3 version where they have a long move list. There's more of an even spread between Sonics and the Werehogs levels, while the Wii/PS2 seems to focus more on the werehog. There is no towns to explore in the Wii/PS2 version, which is more of a picture/text adventure rather than running around, which is fine, but it's fun to see Segas new art style with the human characters that actually fit in this time around.The 360/PS3 version seems to be larger in scale to the Wii/PS2 versions but that's not to say the Wii version isn't good, it's just not as large as the 360/PS3.
I'm so happy with this game, even if you're not a big fan of the werehog levels, there's enough fun in Sonics levels to keep you coming back for more. They don't try to over complicate a story with characters wierd events and certainly no Final Fantasy looking characters. It focuses on Sonic and his Werehog form and has a very fantasy/silly story, but it's very fitting for Sonic I must say. The game is the best Sonic game I've played in along time, and though I expected it to be not great, it turned out to be my favorite 3D Sonic game.
The game is fast fun and definitely polished, there's no glitches or agonizing load times seen in the next gen Sonic the Hedgehog, they took out the serious story with realistic looking characters and replaced the story with one of more fantasy with more fitting cartoonish characters. The levels go flawlessly from the behind the back running to 2D style running and they've added a few moves like drifting, boosting and quick dashing and thankfully removed the repetitive talking in the levels. The werehog was a big thing I feared from the start but it turns out it's like a less violant God of War (Literally down to the way he attacks, opens doors and finishes off enemies) and it still manages to be fun, though not as fast but it's okay and I'll say why later. You have to level Sonic and the Werehog up separately, though not to the extent of Sonic and the Secret Rings where you're running horribly slow, you go from fast to mach ten. Sonics day levels are pure speed and fun much like Sonic Adventure just MUCH faster when they have to be and more polished so to speech, the werehogs levels are slower but also more focused on combat and some light puzzles, where leveling with Sonic would get you more speed and boost, the werehog gets more attack moves, power and health, and there's also the Tornado levels where you fly with Tails to take down Robotniks (Eggmans) army which is more or less press a certain button to blow up a certain enemy..
The 360/PS3 versions are almost completely different from the Wii/PS2 in every way, the levels are the same theme but are completely different in design, there is no leveling for Sonic and it's done automatically for the werehog. The werehog is more of a button masher than it is the 360/PS3 version where they have a long move list. There's more of an even spread between Sonics and the Werehogs levels, while the Wii/PS2 seems to focus more on the werehog. There is no towns to explore in the Wii/PS2 version, which is more of a picture/text adventure rather than running around, which is fine, but it's fun to see Segas new art style with the human characters that actually fit in this time around.The 360/PS3 version seems to be larger in scale to the Wii/PS2 versions but that's not to say the Wii version isn't good, it's just not as large as the 360/PS3.
I'm so happy with this game, even if you're not a big fan of the werehog levels, there's enough fun in Sonics levels to keep you coming back for more. They don't try to over complicate a story with characters wierd events and certainly no Final Fantasy looking characters. It focuses on Sonic and his Werehog form and has a very fantasy/silly story, but it's very fitting for Sonic I must say. The game is the best Sonic game I've played in along time, and though I expected it to be not great, it turned out to be my favorite 3D Sonic game.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sega is heading in the right direction
Nov 25 2008
By J. Soriano
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The game is worth every penny.
Graphically it is mind blowing. The gameplay is awesome for the Sonic levels and surprisingly good for the werehog. The replay value is enormous and the quality of the game overall is through the roof : great soundtrack and CG etc ...
If you love Sonic or not, this is the game you must buy.
Graphically it is mind blowing. The gameplay is awesome for the Sonic levels and surprisingly good for the werehog. The replay value is enormous and the quality of the game overall is through the roof : great soundtrack and CG etc ...
If you love Sonic or not, this is the game you must buy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I bought this game for my girlfriend
Feb 24 2009
By Cliff Speed
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I don't really play games like this. I mostly enjoy shooters; Left 4 Dead and Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 being my favorites so far on the Xbox 360. My girlfriend on the other hand, isn't all that into them. We downloaded the original Sonic, and she's been playing it like crazy ever since. She's beaten it several times and gotten all the achievements.
So being the wonderful boyfriend that I am, when I heard that a full-blown new Sonic game was coming out, I bought it for her.
Verdict: She loves it.
First off, the game is stunning to watch. The "daytime" scenes are easily the high point, as fun to watch as they are to play. And believe me, I've spent plenty of time hanging in the same room, absently watching her play. Sega has finally made it possible to do what everyone always wanted to do in a Sonic game: Go really really really fast, and keep on going.
The nighttime Werehog scenes are more plodding and combat-based, and although they don't overload your senses quite like the daytime scenes, they provide a needed contrast to the overall pacing, and are fun in their own right.
Only a few complaints:
The controls could be a little more responsive. They're not horrible, but sometimes you could just swear you hit that jump button in time as you watch Sonic fall, shrieking to his death.
Also, the life system is unnecessary. This is a hard game, but only truly frustrating when you lose all your lives at the end of a level and have to start back at the beginning. Who hasn't figured out that getting your progress bumped way back isn't any fun? Apparently, Sega.
Oh well, still a very fun game that requires a lot of perseverance from time to time. Highly recommended for fans of the originals.
So being the wonderful boyfriend that I am, when I heard that a full-blown new Sonic game was coming out, I bought it for her.
Verdict: She loves it.
First off, the game is stunning to watch. The "daytime" scenes are easily the high point, as fun to watch as they are to play. And believe me, I've spent plenty of time hanging in the same room, absently watching her play. Sega has finally made it possible to do what everyone always wanted to do in a Sonic game: Go really really really fast, and keep on going.
The nighttime Werehog scenes are more plodding and combat-based, and although they don't overload your senses quite like the daytime scenes, they provide a needed contrast to the overall pacing, and are fun in their own right.
Only a few complaints:
The controls could be a little more responsive. They're not horrible, but sometimes you could just swear you hit that jump button in time as you watch Sonic fall, shrieking to his death.
Also, the life system is unnecessary. This is a hard game, but only truly frustrating when you lose all your lives at the end of a level and have to start back at the beginning. Who hasn't figured out that getting your progress bumped way back isn't any fun? Apparently, Sega.
Oh well, still a very fun game that requires a lot of perseverance from time to time. Highly recommended for fans of the originals.
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