#Sonic unleashed ps2 review series#

In addition to that innovation, Unleashed also introduced another gameplay format with the dark beast form of Sonic, which was called a werehog because somebody at Sonic Team did not understand how the word werewolf worked, and these werehog stages account for the majority of the game. Story aside, Unleashed is notable for establishing the boost gameplay that served as the primary gameplay for 3D Sonic games for the last few major releases, excluding Lost World.

#Sonic unleashed ps2 review series#

The only positive thing I have to say about him is that at least he has the decency to die before the story meanders into a predictable conclusion that wraps things up and returns the series to its status quo, with nothing begin gained or learned. While the markque new character, Chip, is easily the most useless and obnoxious thing to ever be inserted into the Sonic series, while also serving as a giant fluttering macguffin whose true purpose with regards to the plot is utterly asinine. A new character by the name of Professor Pickle is thrown in forвЂ¦ reasons I could not determine, seeing as how he mostly just directs Sonic to his next destination and gushes about cucumber sandwiches. Tails and Amy both return for rather bit parts. There are a few notable characters who are featured in the gameвЂ™s numerous pre-rendered cutscenes. I stopped listening to what characters were even saying after a point, and actually began to appreciate how simple and short their dialog was, as it meant I did not need to look at their malformed faces for much longer. The Wii version is notable for how underplayed the whole globe trotting aspect of this story is, as instead of travelling across a small hub area, players simply select areas from a list, go talk to an image of a 3D model while reading their stock dialog, and then move onto the next dialog scene on the list.

Travel from continent to continent in a predetermined manner, talk to the people in an arbitrarily chosen village, find the person who knows about the temple, go through stages to get to the temple, and then rinse and repeat until story ends. It very quickly devolves into a series of levels only loosely tied to finding seven magical temples that are tied to the chaos emeralds, which Sonic has from the get-go but they are inert, and travelling around a world that borders on being an uncomfortable one due to the very exaggerated and at times garish designs of the people who exist within it. After befriending the flying fairy chihuahua thing, Sonic realizes that he transforms back to normal during the day and sets off on a journey to save the world, as he seemingly does every other week.ДЇrom that overly complicated introduction, the story really does not do much noteworthy, interesting, or all that memorable. Also, unleashing Dark Gaia ended up transforming Sonic into a werehog, a haphazardly worded way of saying that he turned into a furry and more savage looking beast creature with spiked shoes and a gravelly voice added in for good measure.ДЇrom there, Sonic is sent back to Earth by Eggman, who apparently had yet to think about keeping Sonic prisoner and torturing him for six months, where he encounters the new animal friend of this title, Chip. An ancient evil force which Eggman thinks he can control, because apparently the creators gave up on making Eggman seem even remotely senseable. But in a fairly clever move, Eggman recognizes this familiar predicament and uses the power of Super Sonic and the chaos emeralds to launch a beam of light at the Earth that cases the planet to shatter into several pieces and unleashes Dark Gaia. Eggman before using the power of the chaos emeralds to go Super Sonic and expectedly wreck EggmanвЂ™s plans. Sonic Unleashed picks up in media res of a typical scenario for this series, with Sonic rushing through the flying fortress of Dr. Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, WIi(Reviewed), PS2 And seeing as how I am not enough of a masochist to play Sonic вЂ06, I guess I may as well complete the saga with Sonic Unleashed вЂ¦ the Wii version in particular, as that is what I played when the game came out. You know, I never set out to go through and review every mainline Sonic game, but it recently occurred to me that I was on track of doing just that, having gone from the original Sonic The Hedgehog to Shadow The Hedgehog and from Sonic 4 toвЂ¦ well, Lost World, as I have not picked up Mania or Forces yet. Of all the endless possibilities, I just had to end up with you, didnвЂ™t I?