Sonic the Hedgehog (PlayStation 3)

Discuss Review + Want + Have Contribute

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 PlayStation 3 screenshots for this game.

Part of the Following Groups

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

User Reviews

Unfinished, but still fun	William Baker (10)
Look past your prejudice and just enjoy the game.	AkibaTechno (228)
Don't be fooled by the reviews	sonicteamUSA (46)

The Press Says

Playstation Front	Apr 03, 2007	64 out of 100	64
Jeuxvideo.com	Mar 23, 2007	9 out of 20	45
EmpireOnline.com	2007		40
GameDaily	Feb 08, 2007	4 out of 10	40
Games Radar	2007	4 out of 10	40
4Players.de	Mar 04, 2007	38 out of 100	38
videogamer.com	Mar 20, 2007	3 out of 10	30
Pro-G	Mar 20, 2007	3 out of 10	30
UGO (UnderGroundOnline)	2007	D	25
The A.V. Club	Dec 12, 2007	D-	16

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.)