Sonic 2006

[Rusty Venture]

But that's the whole point, it's really defining and gives him the same charisma Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have.

No, it gives him a stereotyped accent that's been done to death.

Sort of like Big Cat in "Sonic Adventure" the "big dumb guy voice".

[GeckoYamori]

If it was stereotyped he would have sounded like Tony Soprano.

[Dartagnan1083]

Whole world in agreement?
the media sources use different systems even across the same scales.
Some sources use a 5/10 as a strict average (with 6.0 meaning "good") as opposed to the Gamespot/1up method of applying 'SCHOOL' viewpoints and assigning 'average' to 7/10 (like a dip-shit)

That and the review from Gamespot was done by some retard that gave FFVII a 9.5/10
Sonic '06 was also given a score of 9.5 by Dave Halverson. . .and most of us know how broken/generous his views are.

Plus, the scores haven't quite been universal.

* 1UP rated the game a 5.5/10
* EDGE rated the game a 3/10
* Eurogamer rated the game a 2/10
* GameBrink rated the game a 57/100
* GameDaily rated the game a 2.5/5
* Game Informer rated the game a 6.75/10
* Game-On rated this game an 87/100
* Gamespot rated the game a 4.4/10
* GameTrailers rated it 4.6/10
* The Official Xbox 360 Magazine rated the game a 6/10
* Gamereactor Sweden rated the game a 5/10

I'm not exactly eager to go out and buy it with these scores.
But I really do want to play it to try things out and make sure this isn't a repeat of jaded reviewers that can't get the camera to work (I've never had a game-breaking problem with a 3D Sonic's camera that ruined the entire game).

[Vyse of Arcadia]

I played a demo of it.

And so help me god, it's the worst Sonic game I've ever played. And that's including the Gamegear monstrosity Sonic Labyrinth.

Sonic Team's games have sharply declined in quality as of late. I enjoyed Sonic Adventure, and I was amused by Sonic Adventure 2. Sonic Heroes was a steaming pile of crap, and Sonic 2006 is worse.

But I don't think the Sonic character should be abandoned. I just think they should stop making 3D Sonic games, and dissolve Sonic Team. And let DIMPS develop them. I dunno about you guys, but I thought the Sonic Advance games were fantastic, and Sonic Rush was a masterpiece.

[Dartagnan1083]

Sonic Team has been severely gutted over the past 5 years.
Sonic Rush was nice enough, but far from a masterpeice.
Sonic Advance 1 was horrid.

yeah, my opinion on the franchise is wonky.

I consider the worst titles in the franchise to be Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic 2(GameGear).

The odd thing is that I consider Sonic Heroes to be among my favorite 5 titles in the series (at #5).

[16-bit pwnage]

The real sting is that it was over hyped to the point that the fans saw it as the second coming of the franchise; escorting it a new love of Sonic by the masses not seen since the original game released in 1991. That's one reason why many of the fans are so pissed, they climbed up so high only to suffer a huge fall. I did as well, the anticipation I felt for this game related to other big rebirths for franchises like Metroid Pirme and Resident Evil 4 revamped their respective series. I still plan on playing and/or buying this game, but I'll probably wait a while (since I don't own a 360 or PS3 and there may be a PC version in the works). If there is a PC version slated for release, the guys at Sega better get their act together and fix the bugs and load times in this game, so they can at least salvage this title.

[Henry Spencer]

Here's what I think needs to happen:
Scrap Sonic for ten years and return to the other classic titles.

Fixed.