A great Sonic game
Sonic the Hedgehog is back. After is abysmal 360 game and his lost of his A+ Mascot reputation, the wise cracking Mascot makes his way to the Wii. Will this be the final nail in his cofine, or dose the old mascot have a few more laps in him? The story starts with a ring genie name Sharha meeting and asking Sonic to save her world from the evil Erazor Djin whose been re-writing the stories of the Arabean Nights. The story also tells that a blue Hedgehog will save the day. Sonic is sucked into the book and struck in chest and must collect 7 world rings which may or may not force him to sacrifice his life. Through out the game, you'll see cameo's of Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman who are portrayed as Arbeian Night's characters. Lets face, Sonic story are never A+ materal. Here, the poor story falls with animated stilt frames instead of full motion video. It's the easy way out, but we were expecting more from the blue mascot. The voice acting is just horrible. Sonic's voice is O.K, but the rest is just Grating, as is the script, which happens to contain the most dramatic pinkey swear. But, not like its crap of a story, the gameplay is enjoyable. The consept is that Sonic is on rails, constantly going foward. You hold the Wiimote like a classic controller, and steer Sonic left and right, dodgeing obstecles, and jumping over objects. When in the air, you can thrust the controller foword to dash foword, and to smash enemies with Sonic's Homing attack. This used a lot, so it good that it's fun. The speed truly get's you into the 16-bit er. Your quickly doging, killing enemies, and most impotantly, Running really fast. This can easily be called "the fastest 3-D Sonic game". After the completion of a level you'll level up. This gives you more coins to collect, more Soul gadge, and most importantly, abilities that will you make you run faster, dodge faster, and other stuff. Nearly going, Sonic move slow and takes a while for Sonic to get up to speed. You can also use 2 abilities. Speed Break makes you go extreamly fast, and Time break slows thing down to get pas things. There are some problems, like when going back, the camera forced you to go back blindly. The controls are also not presise, so when you try to make a quick move, you may die. If theres will ever be a sequal, which there should be since it has potential, the controls need more procision. Each level has you doing different challenges like collecting rings, racing agenst a ball of light, going agenst the time, not die, or something else. But, your forced to do these challenges. You don't know what will move you on, and the game is super efficantly long using this. Sonic fans will love the challenges, but the little ones will hate this and get easily frustrated. The overall look of the game is great, were looking at the blue prints of what the Wii is made of. The Wii may be the last in the graphics race, but with games like Sonic, it's not suffering. The levels are beautiful and Sonic looks great. But, the levels start to repeat after a while. Sonic fans should love this game. It has everything a Sonic game needs, Despite design choses, this can be a good game. If you looking for a good Wii game, this one is it. If you can get pass the rediculuse story, this is a fun game. Let's hope the old little Hedgehog can get back on his feet.
