Shadow the Hedgehog

This is a game where you take a failing series, add guns and the words d*** and hell, then make the controls very crappy. I used to like the Sonic series. I loved adventures 1 &2. Yet when working on this game, they paid little attention to what they were doing.

The story goes about Shadow wanting to figure out his past. The ways to figure out is to side with the evil side, the hero side, or go nuetral. Now the story was pretty boring. Going with either the light or dark side will change the effect of the story. Like you disconer different things. (SPOILER) For example if you beat Hero, you are the the hero and blah blah blah, while in nuetral you were a cyborg clone the whole time because the original Shadow died in Adventure two. Believe me when this story sucks.



Next comes the graphics. Oh the mediocre graphics. The cinematic sequences look cool and all, but the actual gameplay graphics are pretty bad. They look like a dreamcast game. Now sure there were some dreamcast games that look better than some PS2 games, but the PS2 has already proved it can do better (God of War.) There were very few enemy sprites what so ever. Like you get dark flying bat thing, walking dark thing, walking dark thing with gun, walking dark thing with another gun, new taller walking dark thing, and etc. etc.

The music was not that bad but not that great. If you like something along the lines of metalica then you might enjoy this. Now remember I said might. Listening to rock music for a game that shouldn’t have rock gets old. Also if you hated the guys who did the music for SA 1 and 2 (Sonic Adventure for people who don’t know that, but there is probably very few who don’t) and Sonic Hero, then you will definitely hate this.



Now the worst part of the whole game. The control are TERRIBLE! Trying to turn is a risky task to make. You end up turning to sharp around a corner where an enemy was hiding and you get injured. Shooting the guns don’t feel natural and just like it was a add on they put in at the alst second. Now the new way rings are lost is a little better, instead of losing all of them at once, you lose about 20. So if you have 100, then you have 80 left and can keep playing without recollecting them. The multiplayer feels pretty crappy too. Because of the new ring sytem, versus becomes a pain in the ass. So they lose 20 rings, have a s*** load more, and they are invincible for 3 seconds. It turns into a I hit you, you hit me, I hit you for 5 hours till someone dies.

Overall the game is pretty lousy. After enjoying the Adventure series and hating Hero, they could have at least made it a little more decent. Instead they put little effort, gave Shadow the lead role so he can say d*** every time he is injured, and add guns which don’t do s***.

3 star(s) out of 5

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