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| Fullmetal | Jun 12 2007, 07:11 AM |
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 You choose to play as either Sonic or Eggman's team, and then conquer the world, or save it. Yay. Story (7/10) Alright, so it starts with Dr. Eggman entering a military building to find their top secret weapon, but instead finds Shadow the Hedgehog, who offers to help him obtain world domination using a huge cannon located in outer space. But to be able to fire it, they must use the Chaos Emeralds as power source, so they end up enlisting Rouge the Bat's aid to find them. Meanwhile, the good guys (Sonic and Tails) try to prevent them from getting the emeralds, while, Knuckles is searching for the pieces of the Master Emerald he shattered in order to stop Eggman from stealing it. It's the usual "Stop-the-bad-guy's-plan" story, but it's not that bad. Gameplay (7/10) The controls are okay, but there's one MAJOR problem. The freaking camera angle. It looks like it's always zooming on your character, so you have to stop and press the L or R button to make it turn slowly so that you can actually see your surroundings. In another game, that probably wouldn't be such a big problem, but in this one, most your score at the end of a level is based on time. Stopping to turn the camera around makes you lose precious time and speed. The B button, which is the default attack button, is also used for other skills like Knuckles' ability to see hidden items. So you have to stop AGAIN, press the Y button to browse through the stuff you can do with the B button, and then use it. Audio (5/10) The voice acting sucks, and the music is good in a few stages only (mostly Sonic's). Knuckles' stages always have some weird rap songs about having to protect the Master Emerald, which he shamelessly shattered instead of taking it back from Eggman. Yeah, that makes sense. And I have no idea on how to describe the music in Rouge's stages, except that the background music looks like what a bunch of 12 years old girls would sing to try to sound sexy or something. Shadow, Eggman and Tails' background songs are pretty average. Graphics (9/10) A good improvement over the Dreamcast version. Nothing to say on this one. Difficulty (10/10) There's no real problem with getting through Story Mode, but if you want to get through the game 100%, you'll certainly have problems. There are 180 emblems to get. You get one every time you complete a stage for the first time, and when you complete extra objectives they give you for the stages. After that, you get a bunch of them for getting all A ranks on all the objectives. And if that's not enough, you have to play some sort of side quest where you have to raise those blue things named "Chao" to get about 9 emblems. Long story short, this could keep you going for MONTHS. Overall (6/10) This game isn't bad, but it could've been so much better. You don't play as Sonic and Shadow enough, and too much as Rouge and Knuckles, and their levels can be summed up as following radar signals to find pieces of the master emerald. The Chao raising side quest is TOO FREAKING LONG, and you end up getting bored of the game before you even get half the emblems. Conclusion: Get some better voice acting, and totally change Rouge and Knuckles' roles in this game, because right now, they're useless and boring. The Good: -The Sonic and Shadow stages are entertaining, and the best parts of the game. -Sonic's background music is usually excellent. -The graphics are good. The Bad -The voice acting could've been MUCH better. -Tails and Eggman's levels are boring -Knuckles and Rouge's level are HORRIBLE. Mix that with their background music, and they totally SUCK. -The camera angles are messy and sometimes hard to deal with. -The enemies are all the same, boring robots. Zero originality. |
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