Gamespot: 3.5/10 for Unleashed 360
BanoX93 | December 5, 2008
Site says, “Just isn’t even fun.”
This week isn’t really going too well for Sonic Unleashed with critic reception. Maybe you thought the worst has already came. For those who thought that… I’m sorry.
Gamespot’s review of the 360 edition of Unleashed is scored as the second worst Sonic game next to Sonic Genesis. To the people who started the petition for IGN to re-review Sonic Unleashed, you just might want to start another because the game was scored with a very poor, 3.5/10.
Unlike other critics, Gamespot actually didn’t find Sonic’s stages that good:
The Sonic levels don’t fare any better than the lousy werehog parts. Your goal is to run as quickly as possible to the finish line, but the camera is rarely able to give you an optimal view and the controls are far too loose to provide the pinpoint accuracy you’ll need. These technical problems mean you’ll have to memorize stages before you can breeze through them. The game is not responsive enough to allow you to consistently avoid obstacles the first time you encounter them, so you’ll find yourself repeatedly plowing headfirst into spikes and falling down countless bottomless pits before you finally know where each obstacle lays ahead of time.
And if you were expecting them to enjoy the Werehog stages, think again:
The werehog levels are extremely tedious. The levels are evenly divided between platforming and fighting, but both elements offer more frustration than excitement.
Here are Gamespot’s “The Good” and “The Bad” for the 360 build of Unleashed.
The Good:
- Looks good.
The Bad:
- Monotonous combat
- Imprecise platforming
- Inept camera restricts your view
- Tons of control issues
- Horrendous level design
The rest of their review can be found Here!
Do you guys feel as if this review isn’t well reviewed? Let us know by commenting below!
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CAMERA! GET OVER IT YOU DUNCES!
HOW DARE THEY SAY THE DAYTIME STAGES HAVE BAD LEVEL DESIGN! DO THEY KNOW HOW MUCH WORK WAS PUT INTO THEM!!!?????? I HATE GAMESPOT!
Some people just don’t….think.
3.5!!! That’s 1.3 lower than Sonic’06. I wonder what they gave the Wii version?
WHAT!???
Something’s up now.
They are actually WORSE than IGN!
dang!
Seriously, what are they thinking? They call themselves critics? They don’t even know how to rate games! They barely play the game they are reviewing! They don’t deserve pay!
Hmmm…this review. The contents of that review are such that you don’t have any real reason to call it biased. It is not biased.
Rather, it is ridiculously and abnormally stupid!
But hey, I still love the game. I will just laugh at Gamespot like I did with IGN.
Skip you ign and gamespot you all suck they cant review to save their life
Hmm, I have to kind of agree with SOME of the points they made, you really have to know the levels before you can really have fun with them, but they seem a lot more sore about it than they should be. Skyscraper Scamper in particular. Or it’s possible that they somehow didn’t figure out that the Act 2/3′s are supposed to that hard.
It basically seems to me that if you go into Unleashed trying to like it, you’ll have a legitimately better experience than if you’re expecting it to be terrible. If you’re expecting to hate the Werehog, you’re going to try to run through those levels as fast as you can and you’ll constantly not have enough medals.
Yo, Soul the hedgehog! Some fanboy fun is gonna start here if you are interested!
As usual: The game’s not like, super great or anything, but a 3.5 is where I go “What the hell?”
It’s the whole “rating this worse than Sonic 2006″ thing. The minute you’re harsher on Sonic Unleashed than that game is the minute I stop trusting your review.
I went “what the hell!?” to but if the game on another site gets below a 3.5 then I’ll go “WHAT THE F***!?”.
CURSE YOU GAMESPOT & IGN!!! Because of your folish words, you made the Sonic franchise even worse…
“Your goal is to run as quickly as possible to the finish line, but the camera is rarely able to give you an optimal view and the controls are far too loose to provide the pinpoint accuracy you’ll need.” — PLEASE!!! That only proves that you haven’t played any of the Sonic games (including the Genesis). CURSE YOU!!!
THE CAMERA IS NOT THE PROLEM!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S THEIR BALL-SUCKING NON-SKILLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OKAY I’M CALM AND MY KEY BOARD NOW ONLY TYPES IN ALL CAPS. BUT THEY SERIOUSLY RATED THIS LOWER THAN SONIC NEXT-GEN! SOMTHING IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE/ALIENS.
(laughs outrageously)
Jeez, no-one take this seriously, these guys have quite obviously had their brains replaced with rubber ducks and pencil shavings.
This is getting really…really stupid…what’s up with America and hating sonic games?! This is why SEGA barely puts any effort into sonic games because what they get? The worst of the worst comments for their games that took over 3 years to design and program. They have no right to bash the game like that. I do agree they must view the good and the bads of the game but it has gone too far. No wonder why SEGA doesnt want us to have some of their exclusive japan only games…
Plus, with these “wondeful” comments, they are not motivating SEGA to make better games. =/
What’s up with these people now? Sonic doesnt deserve a lower than 7 on any game. *sighs*
Please… You can’t trust the media with everything . They probably just doubted it and rated without playing it.
HEYYY MIKE YOU DONT KNOW WAT UR TALKING ABOUT…… MUURRRRDEERRR ITTT. I WONNT HHLLEETT UUU MMMUUURRDEERRR ITTTT
Dang…They dished it out…
Good grief, clam the fuck down. Its a review.
WTF!? I thought Gamespot should make a much better review than many others! But I don’t really care buuut…COMON! Nearly no game deservs 3.5! I’m going to read the whole review now.
This is just RIDICULOUS!
What I think the problem is now is that reviewers are all opinions, opinions, opinions. We don’t want their god damn opinions, we want FACTS! Does the camera work? Yes! Does it have tons of control issues? No!
For pete’s sake, a five year old could do a better review than these sites.
Fuck gamespot and fuck all the reviewers.
I don’t listen to reviews anymore from the “pro critics”. The users are the real reviewers.
I laughed hard.
Gamespot= Not pro at all.
This start to look like competition to see who can give the lowest rating. so if there are any other reviews i expect that they give it a 2.5 mainly because they may win a keyring
Geez, come ON people. Are we really gonna let one review get us all in an uproar? You’d have to know this was coming. If you don’t like it, express that, but don’t, like, kill some one over it.
And just for the record, this review sucks. OK, there, I said it.
You know what? I completely agree, and here’s why:
It’s so difficult to review this particular game because you’re dealing with terrible werehog stages, and relatively great by comparison daytime stages.
However, the more I play these daytime levels, the more I realize how uninteresting and uninspired they are. You aren’t actually playing the game, with all the dash pads, half the time it’s playing itself. This is not how a sonic game is supposed to play. It’s not about speed, it’s about using momentum to get over the next loop or half pipe and being rewarded with better routes, etc. The daytime levels had NONE of that.
The werehog stages get an F, and the still mediocre daytime stages get a D, which averages, in my opinion, somewhere around a 3.5. If everyone continued to let Sonic Team off the hook with 7.0s, they’d never make a great game.
And for the record, good camera and controls should be a standard, a game shouldn’t be considered average because it has those, since they are to be expected. Just because the last few Sonic games were horrific and overrated doesn’t mean this still isn’t a bad game in general.
Okay, who’s paying them extra to write a sorry review just because it’s a Sonic game?
What makes me laugh about this is the fact they put other sites review scores next to it & all of them (except IGN’s) are good to great, so who plays like c**p now gamespot lol
I really dislike Gamespot… Even IGN users can say this is getting WAY out of hand.
In short, that review sucked. Not because it gave the game a low score, but because of lies and blowing things out of proportion. GameSpot lost what little respect I had for them.
@ct: I happened to pull one particular sentence out of your comment that made me go “What the heck?”.
This is it: “It’s not about speed, it’s about using momentum to get over the next loop or half pipe and being rewarded with better routes, etc.”
Actually, it IS about speed. Not so much the momentum part.
I am really surprised…i though GameSpot had brain meet in their brains,but it looks like they have cocoNUTS in their brain…IGN gave a low score and GameSpot give a low score so they don’t get behind.Seriously,does GameSpot honestly think that by following IGN’s opinion they will be a “true rating site”?GameSpot should have their OWN opinion of the game.THAT score is absolutely equal to giving Sonic Adventure 2 ,a 4.0 out of 10,which is just a foolish move…I wonder what is GameSpot’s next move,or should i say IGN’s next move…
Gamespot is an IGN copycat, they get all their info from IGN most of the time. Slackers!
Once I saw the goods, I want ” That’s not a even a good good”. and the bad, I said “That’s a good not the bad”.
What the fuck?! This is worse to them than next gen?! That game was hardly PLAYABLE!!! After this, I’d settle for black knight.
HOW COULD YOU GAMESPOT!!! I trusted you. This game rocks and if u can’t see that, then all of your critics are douches.
P.S. This game is the best!!!
ARE YOU JOKING ME IGN AND GAMESPOT..
how……how dare you say the day levels are bad…..OMG…i haven’t had a problem with the dame camera yet….plus i beat it so practically..THERE ARE NO DAMN CAMERA PROBLEMS
the only real bad thing i actually accoutered was the triple amount of time you play as the werehog than sonic..
Gamespot and IGN need to fire who they got and get some POSITIVE reviews…
The people who review must really be bad at GOOD games, what the heck are the problems with the camera?
They should know that nothing beats how crappy Sonic 06 was!!!!!! Sonic Unleashed is WAY FAR BETTER, in my opinion. The level designs were beautiful, they must be blind… and pretty retarded. At least give Sonic Unleashed a 7 or something.
This place reaks of rabid fanboys… Really, everything they so is SO true. RIGHT?
BECAUSE GAMESTOP IS FKN JEEBUZ.
GOD. CALM DOWN. Just because Gamestop didn’t enjoy it, doesn’t mean you guys can’t :\ So go ahead and do so.
They had the right idea, though, the daytime stages could use a lot of work, the nighttime stages are actually pretty fun, even the the werehog is a bit laggy between attacks. And the controls could use some work…