#SONIC UNLEASHED 2 SERIES#
#SONIC UNLEASHED 2 PS2#

The saddest thing of all is that there could be a genuinely entertaining game here, albeit buried under hundreds of awful design choices. Worse still, the gameвЂ™s developers know how poorly constructed the stages are and always provide extra lives before punishing sections. Awful level design nigh-guarantees that any fun youвЂ™ll have with Unleashed is always a fleeting experience. The cameraвЂ™s position makes it difficult to gauge whatвЂ™s coming next and the unresponsive controls ensure the obstacles are impossible to avoid anyway. Rather than controlling Sonic directly like every computer game since 1978, you roughly suggest where youвЂ™d like him to go as he runs off cliffs, crashes into barriers, or plummets to his death time and time again.ДЄs much as Sega would like to pretend that Sonic has changed for the better, a simple removal of the third dimension is not enough. SonicвЂ™s stages work perfectly until control is handed over to the player, where upon it all falls apart quicker than a leper in a wind tunnel. Of course, this doesnвЂ™t count for much when the underlying game is so fundamentally broken. With the power of the new Hedgehog Engine under the hood, Unleashed is a downright stunning game to look at. The only thing not pilfered from God of War is sheer entertainment, which was plentiful in the aforementioned but non-existent in Hog of WarвЂ¦ I mean, Unleashed.

#SONIC UNLEASHED 2 PS2#

The werehog sections rip off the PS2 classic God of War in so many ways that if I listed them all, IвЂ™d run out of space.

#SONIC UNLEASHED 2 SERIES#

Excuse me, but what the hell is this shit? Whenever you say youвЂ™re going back to your roots, theyвЂ™re not supposed to be the roots that fans of the series have been verbally hacking at for years. So here we are again with Sonic Unleashed and youвЂ™ve decided the best way to go вЂњback to your rootsвЂќ is by transforming into a werehog for half of the game. More importantly, they werenвЂ™t about fishing, hunting for emerald shards, or running around with a gun- elements Sonic Adventure added, but nobody wanted. What you never understood was that the old Sonic games were never about pure speed at the expense of control. When you finally returned in 1998вЂ™s Sonic Adventure, it was still your charming face on the box, but the game just wasnвЂ™t the same. While Mario cavorted around in 3D, you struggled to adapt to the challenges of a new generation. With the lack of a third dimension to screw everything up, we could concentrate on the thrill of playing rather than the fear of impending death. Remember those days? Blasting through garish environments at high speed, smashing RobotnikвЂ™s evil creations and collecting Chaos Emeralds. When we went to counselling after your disastrous 2006 outing Sonic the Hedgehog, we both agreed the only way for you to get your life back on track was a return to what made you so great in the past. I even forgave you for that time you cheated on me with Mario at the Beijing Olympics. WeвЂ™ve been together through good times and bad, including your awkward transition to 3D, no matter how many strange sidekicks you befriended. WeвЂ™ve been together for a long time now, but lately I feel like youвЂ™ve changed and youвЂ™re no longer the same hedgehog I fell in love with all those years ago. Published in The Student, University of EdinburghвЂ™s oldest student newspaper