Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360)

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Description

Sonic the Hedgehog is Sonic's first appearance on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in an all-new adventure, this time in the human world. Sonic meets Elise, the princess of Soleanna, which he quickly makes friends with. Unfortunately, Dr. Eggman quickly intervenes and kidnaps Elise in order to destroy the kingdom of Soleanna and its up to Sonic to rescue her.

A line-up of characters from previous games make their returns including Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and a brand new character, Silver the Hedgehog. Sonic races through stages with blinding speed using the 3D elements similar to the Sonic Adventure games. Along with new gameplay elements, familiar features make a return. The gameplay is split up in action stages, fast levels with alternate pathways, and free-roaming town stages where the characters can explore the towns, talk to other characters, get new quests, and visit the shops, similar to the Adventure Fields from Sonic Adventure.

During the game, three main characters can be controlled: Sonic, Shadow and Silver. There are 11 stages in total, and they are tweaked to the abilities for each of the characters. Sonic is the only one to have access to super speed stages, and he has custom abilities, such as the spin dash, light dash, homing attack, bounce attack, a sliding kick, a tornado kick, a mach speed dash and grinding. These are acquired in exchange for rings in stores. Sonic can also trade gems for special powers. Shadow's abilities are largely derived from Shadow the Hedgehog, with a focus on driving vehicles such as buggies, hovers, bikes and gliders. There are also various melee attacks, similar to those of Sonic, but Shadow does not use firearms in this game. The new character, Silver, is a time-traveling hedgehog. His main means of attack are psychokinetic powers. He can pick up and throw objects, and levitate. Additional abilities can be purchased in the in-game stores in exchange for rings.

For certain missions, you take control of an amigo, automatically assigned in specific stages. Sonic gets the help from Tails and Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow's sidekicks are Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega, and Silver is assisted by Blaze the Cat and Amy Rose.

There are two multiplayer modes: Tag Mode (co-op) and Battle Mode (versus in a race for gold medals). The characters are voiced by the cast of the Sonic X animated TV series.

Screenshots

There are no Xbox 360 screenshots for this game.

Part of the Following Groups

• Middleware: CRI
• Middleware: Kynapse
• Physics Engine: Havok
• Sonic the Hedgehog universe

User Reviews

A Low in a Series of Lows	雷堂嬢太朗 -raido.jotaro- (57792)
A game with many flaws and potential.	sonicteamUSA (46)
AWESOME but has some very few faults	brandon palonis (3)

The Press Says

SegaFan.com	Dec 25, 2006	7.1 out of 10	71
Game Informer Magazine	Jan, 2007	6.75 out of 10	68
Gamereactor (Sweden)	Nov 19, 2006	5 out of 10	50
Jeuxvideo.com	Nov 21, 2006	9 out of 20	45
Eurogamer.de	Dec 08, 2006	4 out of 10	40
4Players.de	Dec 27, 2006	40 out of 100	40
GameSpy	Nov 26, 2006		30
G4 TV: X-Play	Jan 30, 2007		20
FZ	Dec 06, 2006		0
The Video Game Critic	Jan 10, 2007	F	0

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
When Mario Meets Sonic	5	DJP Mom (11118) Aug 22, 2007

Trivia

Development

In a Kikizo interview with one of Sonic Team's producers Yojiro Ogawa, he explained that the quality of the game suffered because of the Christmas launch date and the Xbox 360-PS3 cross-platform development with just one team.

Music

The theme tune to Silver's character, "Dreams of an Absolution" bares a resemblance to the music for Green Hill Zone from the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, although the writer Lee Brotherton states that this wasn't intentional.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2006 – #2 Biggest Disappointment of the Year

Information also contributed by sonicteamUSA

Related Web Sites

• Wikipedia (the article on Sonic the Hedgehog at Wikipedia)
• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Sonic The Hedgehog.)