Terrible
As mentioned before, this game is terrible. Buy it if you like terrible games.

There really isn't much to say that hasn't already been said. It controls poorly and it looks like a PS2 game, yet it's meant to be for 360. It isn't even enjoyable in a mediocre sense like Earth Defense Force was. Just don't buy it.

Even sonic can't keep up with this game!
The game is overall a disappointment to most sonic fanatics but that doesn't mean its a bad game. It in no way beats the fun which most people got from sonic adventure 1 or 2. The game could have more features which hopefully will be fixed in the next version but as a single player game, its mostly all there.
A few major problems which arise are as follows..
- REALLY annoyin loading times, at every cutscene there is about 3 or so loading screens before you begin the mission and 3 after. each are about 10seconds, short but really annoyin.
- In the ''Speed Stages'' if you hit a single wall the game may for some reason glitch and course you to fall and die. But they are short enough that it doesn't really matter.
- Really annoyin camera angles, basically the way sonic is designed and the fact the camera cannot be inversed is rather annoying. Its not very smooth and kinda annoyin.

Generally its visually good to look at, like all sonic games you do get to see a nice scenary while running 1000 miles an hour.

There are many positives about the game, cute story line and new characters but they in no way out do the negatives. This game is worth playing and maybe finishin if your a sonic fan but it is in not as fun as other sonic games as Sonic Adventure 2.

i recommend renting this game first, if it doesnt drive you crazy consider buy it, the game is worth anywhere below $50. I would not recommend buyin it for any more.

Ill give it 3 stars since im a sonic fan :). And i do want them to try to improve next time. :)

Never EVER buy this game, it might cause brain-damages!
Well I am a Sonic-fan from the very beginning on and have played every single game at least once. So I know what I am talking about if I say: This game is the worst Sonic game in history! Hell, I even found "Shadow The Hedgehog" and "Sonic Heroes" somewhat enjoyable, but this game is around 100.000.000 times worse than both of 'em. And it's not only the worst Sonic-game I've ever played ... it's the worst game at all!

I don't try to bash this game, but as hard as I try ... there isn't anything good to say about this piece of...

First and very important: The game is so incredible ... not fast!!! This absolutely no way for a Sonic-game to be!

I for myself found it very annoying, to be forced to play with a lot of even slower characters, who feel very unneeded and plugged on in the last second of development. Besides that, their gameplay feels like it was rushed in 25 minutes, only 20% completed but then put in the game anyway.

The controls are feeling like xxx, worse than any over game. It's sensitive but totally imprecise at the same time.

The camera is worse than in any other Sonic-game (I thought, that wasn't possible, but it was, as this game proofs). It will flip around and make random movements by itself for no reason many times.

The physics are good as long as you just look at ‘em, but collisions are a brand new, unknown level of bad and the physics-engine is heavily overused and not reliable at all, so the game suffers from it a lot.

The graphics are good compared to the last-gen Sonic-games but there're worlds between the graphics of this game and what a next-gen console is able to do. Hell, the graphics are way worse than the ones of "Sonic And The Secret Rings" and that one is for Wii!!!

The loading times are unmatched at all. As I heard that first I thought to myself "nah, I don't care about loading times, so that's nothing serious!" ... ohh how wrong I was. We don't talk about normal loadingtimes here! It goes something like this:

- We start with a nice loadingscreen
- A cutscene tells you, that a boss is approaching
- Again, a loadingscreen
- The name of the boss is shown, and he screams (about 3 seconds, that’s it)
- AGAIN, a Loadingscreen
- Finally, you can play (although, you sure agree, that's nothing good in this game ;p )
- Another loadingscreen
- The boss is defeated and disappears (about 3 seconds again)
- A loadingscreen
- Results and scores are shown
- You guessed it: A loadingscreen ;)
- A cutsceen tells, that the characters are leaving the place
- And we end up with another nice loadingscreen

Each of this loadingtimes will waste around 20 seconds of your life, so you actually will spend around 5 min watching the loadingscreens to play around for 2 mins. And, very important too: There are loadingtimes inside of the stages! I don't mean between 2 different stages but between 2 parts of the same stage, thus killing every bit of speed and action, which might've come up, for good.

(Sorry, I'm not finished yet!)

One of the biggest flaws about this game:
I've never played anything that feels so unfinished and so broken up at all.
The entire game is so buggy and full of errors that you won't believe it, until you've played it yourself. It's horrible how many times I just fell through the ground for absolutely no reason or prescripted passages (where you can't control Sonic at all, i.e. if you go through a loop) had led me straight into death.

And even if all these flaws were fixed, the game would still be the worst sonic game ever because this game already went totally wrong in the planning-phase of development.

The game isn't fun at all! It entirely feels more like watching a bad and boring movie than actually playing a game. The game exists of almost nothing else but loops, where Sonic runs on his own and cliffs, where sonic is tossed around by bumpers and stuff, and you can't do anything but just watch. Every time you dare to try to take control and actually play and explore the game, it will punish you with no reaction or, even worse, will kill Sonic for no reason.

Last but not least, the few good elements from previous games are in this one too, but they are totally ruined through bad scripting and code. Even the basic things like homing-attack or just jumping are totally screwed up. Bad things however are also in this game, stayed the same, just with the little addition, that the script now isn't just bad, but it's unfinished too.

Every single second I played this game I had to ask myself: "How ... How is it possible to mess up a game so bad on so many levels? I couldn't have it done worse, no matter how hard I would’ve tried"


So seriously, take this advice form a die hard Sonic-fan:
Safe yourself a lot of frustration and NEVER EVER by this game!
It could be the greatest mistake of your life ...

I would score this as 0 out of 5, but unfortunately that’s not possible. I think it would be a good idea to make that possible, just to rate this game accurate, because 1 out of 5 is still way too good!

Possibly the worst Sonic game ever
Even if you like the 3D Sonic games, this one will probably disappoint. The graphics and music are great, but everything else... not so much. The difficulty is insane, due to bad level design and the usual constant falling through the ground and off of ledges.The control is terrible, with reversed camera controls and lots of msised button presses. The boss battles are no fun either. This game was definitely rushed and could have been a lot better.