Tuesday 24 March 2009

Sonic Unleashed


FORMAT: Playstation2, Playstation3, Xbox360
PEGI: 7+


History

Sonic games in recent years has taken a lot of criticism from old fans who adore the Archie comics and the original TV series, they say its lost its charm, attitude and even chilidogs, while graphics have grown and features evolved the charm has also been lost on the gaming as well were the Japan exceed, this led to one major mistake during translation the words Robotnik and Eggman got switched, however now Sega has kept this but many people criticize this and many people argue that the original is still the best, but is it starting to come back with sonic unleashed?

Overall rating: 7.8

Storyline: 8
Characters: 8
Movement (control): 7
Graphics: 10
Audio HD: 10
Audio SD: 3
Features: 9




this is the introduction so not a big spoiler.

This is a major improvement on the 3D sonic games however many will argue is it really better than the 2D, the basic storyline is about eggman wanting to use a powerful beast power to build his wacky eggman land – which can easily be moved to the old fashion sonic, hence why I like it more.
The characters can be weird in sonic games however since the late 90’s, they seem to have stuck with mainly new characters, but then again you cant bring in to many because its too complex, this is one reason why people cant stand sonic as they always make new characters in this they added two main characters which is certainly a breath of fresh air, with perky and a bit of attitude, and a good angle with food.
The movement has improved, were most 3D sonic games are said to have to much they seemed to have brought it down a level, but the effects are amazing, because its in HD the graphics are beyond amazing you can even see reflections and use of shaders, shaders is a new form of shadowing were they tell the system were the light sources are in the games so it makes a suitable shadow, however the only issue is audio in SD, this is a issue with games at a 1080p and were you send them back to SD.

Another point is if you don’t like the background music you can add your own to the game this is a new ps3 feature this doesn’t just go for sonic this is for mainly.

2 comments:

desley snipes said...

not a fan of sonic i like to kick it old school with mario

dj wheeler said...

pac-man; the biggie smalls of old school games.