Positive impressions inside
Firstly, look away right now if you want to stay fresh. Spoilers are ahead.
That’s right – reviews are coming in for Sonic Generations! Courtesy of German publications Videogamezone.de and 360 Live, we can now begin to get a good idea of how Sonic Team’s latest title is shaping up.
Of course spoilers are ahead, so for that reason I won’t delve into the details. You can find the Videogamezone review here (translated for non-German speakers). Below are the mains points from the 360 Live review, courtesy of Sonic Stadium:
A couple days ago, I bought a magazine with the first German review. There’s a bit of kinda-new information in it, but first the score and and Pros and Cons.
Graphics: 7
Sound: 8
Controls: 8
Total: 8.5 of 10Pros:
-Fast paced
-Lot’s of unlockables
-Different paths
-Completely dubbed in German with the professional Sonic X actorsCons:
-The approximately 30 frames per second slightly slow the pace of the game
-Few Boss fights
-Camera ocassionally unreasonable
-Loading times could be shorter
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Unlockables: 14 character biographies, 50 pieces of music, 130 concept-arts and 13 videos
A few skills: Run faster under water, lower loss of speed while going up slopes and 8 more
Sonic 1 will cost 7777 points
Chaos Emeralds seem to be obtained from bosses: “(…) Or the fight with Metal Sonic to get one of the seven magical Emerald-Crystals (lol)”Main game (9 Zones, 18 acts) will take about 4 hours, adding missions, Emeralds etc, 3 more. Not sure if this means collecting the Emeralds has nothing to do with the story. Might be that you have to recollect them to use SS in stages. But I dunn
And there’s a bit on the CE. The statue is 15cm and the ring is about 4 cm in diameter.
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@Ophelia
That would be neat, but my money’s on a short and sweet instruction manual-esque character bio just copy/pasted from Sonic Central or some shit like that XD
Uh… Not to sound like a douche, but you guys no that NO game on the consoles is ever going to get a perfect 60/60 fps except for Call of Duty, right?
It’s why it sells so well: because it feels so fluid, fast, smooth, and the gameplay is damned epic. They complement each other, and thus make a solid FPS game, which is what matters.
Either way, this is a rather obscure website, and I’ve seen obscurer websites and reviewers to give worse ratings than the better known ones, like Gamespot, IGN, and GameInformer.
Guess it’s time to play the waiting game, guys.
@sonichedgehog:
I know your comment was on page 1, but I still want to correct you here.
Sonic Colors got a 79 out of 100 in Metacritic, which is pretty much far away from Generations’s rating. Believe it or not, but a lot of people (mostly rating whores) would feel a lot more skeptical over a game with a 79 rating than an 80, 81 rating. So for me, this is definitely lightyears away from Colors.
@*know, FFFFFUUUUUU–
This is a really great score for the Sonic Franchise. I think the last time any Sonic game got anything above a 8 was Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (And that wasn’t even a Platforming-type Sonic game, so really if you think about it the last Sonic Platforming Game to get something higher than an 8 was Sonic Adventure 2). But really why are we complaining people, all of us here are die hard sonic fans to the day we die so of course we think this game is perfect in every way, but that doesn’t mean that the people reviewing the game are though. This in my eyes is a great score and im proud that the Sonic Franchise has broken what we call the “Sonic Cycle”. Keep em’ coming Sega!!!!!
Eh, I have no complaints. If Sonic Generations gets at LEAST a 9 out of 10, the same as BF3 (spoilers spoilers, BF3 got a 9/10 in IGN’s review, found out just now), I’ll die a happy man. Heck, somewhere really close to 9 is awesome for me.
Everybody seems ok with the score. To be honest though I want to see a 9/10 from IGN and a 9/10 from gamespot. More than likely though If that was to happen IGN would have a 9/10 and gamespot would have an 8.5/10 because strangely gamespot always has 0.5 less than all games IGN scores except for some popular shooters.
Also I want Sonic Generations to get a 9/10 because I want Sonic to be recognized in a positive way because if you were to ask people what do they think of Sonic games (who’s not a fan) what would they usually say? “They suck nowadays” right? That reason is because some of them look at the reviews and judge it based off of that. But some people actually play the games and do realize that they aren’t that great.
All I’m saying is that if Sonic Generations got a 9/10 people will be like “WHOA A SONIC GAME GOT A 9/10!!!! I GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!” I honestly don’t care what the reviewers think of the game because usually my opinion of the games are different. I just hate it when other people go by what the REVIEWERS say.
A sonic game would probably turn heads if it got a 9/10 it’s true. But heck, you also want the game to have deserved it right?
@ChaoticFox:
Well, your loss, I think the bios are neat enough, it’s not like it took them lots of development time, and those unlockables aren’t the majority of them, so it’s overlookable if you don’t care about them, lol.
Lol i bet They said Izuka.
This game doesnt have 3rd Person
Doesnt involve any shooting
Doesnt say words ‘Call’ Or ‘Duty’ In the Title
This game is a 8.5 have a nice day XD
@Sonicmaster
if you were to ask people what do they think of Sonic games (who’s not a fan) what would they usually say? “They suck nowadays”
I don’t know who you’ve been talking to, but I’m pretty sure the general consensus amongst non-fans is one of indifference.
The best Sonic game in the world isn’t magically gonna convert people into Sonic fans if they aren’t already (not including younger first-timers). It might bring back some of the disillusioned older fans who lost interest in the series, but that’s pretty much it.
@Eggman
It’s not that I despise them or anything, I was just hoping for more exciting bonus content. Stuff to look forward to, rather than just stuff to casually appreciate.