Site: “The Version that Sonic Fans Should Pick Up”
As promised, Eurogamer, which gave the XBOX360 edition of Sonic Unleashed a very poor four out of 10, gives the game’s Wii/PS2 counterpart a score two points higher, but still lower than most reviews have been for this edition.
In part, the review praises the Wii’s inferior hardware, saying it helps cut out some of the clutter in the game’s big brother, including their claims of a problematic camera. The reviewers also say level design is much better:
The levels themselves are also greatly improved, in most cases completely different to the ones found in the 360 and PS3 version, and it’s the werehog stages that benefit most from the change. Since the Wii control setup has never favoured 3D cameras, the viewpoint is mostly fixed from behind and the levels redesigned accordingly. This all but eliminates the frustrations of the platforming sections, ensuring that you can at least always see where you’re jumping. The werehog also gets a combat overhaul, with control of his arms now mapped to shakes of the remote and nunchuk.
It gets a little tiring during the later stages as you flail at waves of bad guys, and it’s hardly the most precise combat system, but it’s certainly no worse than the button-mashing found on the other consoles. You still earn XP from defeated foes and smashed scenery, but the combos are fewer in number and unlocked automatically as the game counts up your haul at the end of each level. This never needed half-baked RPG pretensions in the first place, so once again it’s another mostly useless feature rendered straightforward.
TSSZ News review editor Ryan Bloom will have his review of the XBOX360 edition of Sonic Unleashed very soon.
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No surprise here.
Everyone seems to enjoy the Wii/PS2 version a little better than the PS3/Xbox 360 version. Still though, a 6? One point higher couldn’t hurt them?
Just one more thing…why is it that some believe a score of “7″ out of 10 is bad? It doesn’t work like school guys. Anything below “5″ is considered below average. A “6″ is more like “Nothing Too Special”, and a “7″ is “Worth Checking Out”. The “4″ on the other hand, is pretty bad.
Take this for example:
1 = Absolute Garbage
2 = Terrible
3 = Bad
4 = Below Average
5 = Average
6 = Nothing Too Special
7 = Worth Checking Out
8 = Pretty Good
9 = Awesome
10 = Perfect
Some work on a 1 to 5 scoring system or 1% to 100% scoring system too you know.
Why is it that all reviewers like the game that has had 1 and a half levels taken out of it plus this has 3 times as many werehog stages so does that mean there is a reviewer that likes the werehog stages?
Well, for the 1% to 100%, just add an extra zero.
As for the “1″ to “5″ scale, it might be something like this:
1 = Awful
2 = Bad
3 = Average
4 = Good
5 = Excellent
what about 3 and a half
@Acell: on a 5-point scale, a 3 1/2 is probably somewhere in between “Average” and “Pretty Good”. Some points of it may stand out, while other points may drag the game down. For example, for Unleashed, people may say that the Sonic stages really stand out while the Werehog stages drag the game down.
And once again, Eurogamer angers me. At least I have a Wii, and the game will be “Nothing too Special” in their eyes rather than “Below Average”. Whoopee.
THE WII ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@SatBK: do you think you have enough explanation points???????????????????????????????????????????????????