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October 2010
(70%)
34 Reviews
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This is the Sonic you know and love. There’s no denying the game takes you back to a simpler day when 8-bit systems ruled the living room. The graphics are beautiful and the levels feel wonderfully familiar.What may be the deal breaker is the game’s di...
Visuals faithfully recreate the look of the original Sonic games, The homing attack is a fun and effective addition to Sonic's repertoire, Some fun level design lets you put Sonic's speed to great use.
Poor boss fights range from dull and easy to dull and frustrating, Some bad level design brings things to a standstill, Overly ruthless about chaos emeralds, Encourages you to play one stage again and again to get extra lives.
This faithful but inconsistent throwback to the earliest Sonic games mingles high-speed thrills with a few too many frustrations....
Abstract: Remember the Sonic spin-off where the the main character had guns? Or the game where Sonic and a human girl had a relationship, and the girl was played by Lacey Chabert? Sonic has gone through some weird (not to mention terrible) games as the charact...
Sonic 4 is an utter mess of a game, cobbled together in a manner that puts the entire franchise to shame. It feels sluggish, broken and lazy, but at least it only lasts a couple of hours! This is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for, and not wo...
Abstract: Sonic got his start just about two decades ago, serving as the high-speed hero of a series of 2D platformers meant to compete with Mario. They did quite well, giving Sega a powerful mascot character that went on to star in all kinds of other games; rac...
Abstract: Old-school Sonic fans have had to endure a lot over the past ten years, and for those of us who grew up with the blue blur back in his 16-bit heyday, the parade of almost schizophrenic designs Sonic Team have subjected us to since the Dreamcast have o...
Abstract: Sonic returns to his roots.Those of us of an older age (me included) can remember the time Sonic came in to our lives. It was a time of fun, a time of innocence, a time of... well you get the picture; it was a while ago. Sonic The Hedgehog was the firs...
The fact is, Sonic 4's first episode is so much fun that it makes you forget about the world and think of nothing but the game. It encapsulates the pure thrill of gaming that many contemporary titles seem to comatosely forget. ...
Abstract: While it has the appearance of a quick cash-in, making a retro revival is actually a tricky proposition. There are the callbacks and the in-jokes, sure, but designers must also have a keen understanding of what made the game so great in the first place...
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 doesn't do very much that's new. Instead, it takes a step back to a time when Sonic was awesome. I would like to have been able to bring a friend along to play as Tails and experience the old Sonic levels in a new way -- in co-op. ...
