Sonic the Hedgehog | 
| From: Sega Of America, Inc.
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1118
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 68006
Model: 10086680065
UPC: 010086680065
EAN: 0010086680065
ASIN: B000G0LE0Y
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Game works perfect. Includes original manual, case, and artwork. Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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Product Description
Sonic The Hedgehog, the Sega classic that changed the way games are played, has come to the Xbox 360 with exciting new features! For the first time, you'll be able to save your high scores and progress as you rocket through the seven gravity-defying stages that started it all. After you outrun Dr. Robotnik and his badniks in Original Mode, race through the famous loop-de-loops even faster with Sonic's trademark Spin Dash in Anniversary Mode which celebrates Sonic's 15th birthday. This special 15th Anniversary Edition also brings tunes from the original soundtrack which you can unlock as you finish the stages.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 A waste of a trip to the video store November 18, 2006
C. Light
46 out of 66 found this review helpful
Don't bother even renting this game. It is by far the worst 360 game I've played. The most annoying feature is lack of configurable controls. The X-axis camera is inverted from what you'd typically find in a FPS game, and you can't change it. The camera gets blocked at the presence of any walls, as it doesn't move toward the character when encountering obstacles.
Definately do not buy this for kids. The game will only frustrate them. It has too many glitches, too many opportunities to accidently lose lives, and too many usability problems, taking away any chance of this game being remotely fun.
Thoroughly disappointed
The Demise of Sonic is Officially Here November 27, 2006
Aleem Choudhry (San Francisco, CA)
21 out of 31 found this review helpful
Let me start this review by saying two things: a) I never write reviews and b) I cannot stand when developers try to leverage brand to sell things, and then don't back up products with any substance.
In this case, the product is so bad, that I felt compelled to save other gamers the waste of time and money by writing this. Also I felt like developers knew that Sonic had a long lived and decent brand, and that they could push anything through the stores. As I described it to my gaming friends, Sonic for Xbox 360 is "offensively bad"
To make it simple:
- Bad graphics (non very distinguished from Dreamcast version, and falls way short of what other 360 games have to offer)
- Bad Play control (cannot customize controls, terrible camera angles)
- Bad Music (thankfully Xbox allows you to play it from other sources)
- Abysmal story and cinema cuts (you'd think they are addressing an audience that is 3 years old, not to mention that Sonic is totally anachronistic to what would be a decent Final Fantasy setting)
- Super buggy (at least this part of it is mildly entertaining, if not laughable)
Camera angles and control make this game horrible November 26, 2006
K. Cavell (New Jersey, USA)
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
I never write reviews on anything, although I enjoy reading other people's reviews (so thanks to everyone who does write them). This game was so frustrating to play that I had to write about how horrible it is. I recently got an Xbox360 and my girl friend decided to rent Sonic since she was a big original Sonic fan. We have been playing it for about 2 hours now and it is nearly impossible to control the character. The camera angles seem to be random and you have no way to control them. When fighting enemies you will be facing one, press the A (or X, depending on which character you are at the time) button to attack and the camera angles changes drastically. Enemy fire is coming in from all directions and there seems to be no way to smoothly control the character to attack them back. As another reviewer mentioned, you can't configure the controls at all. The only options are for video and audio! So in order to play you have to re-train your brain for the horrible user interface they put into this game. I'm used to an inverted look and total configurability (from playing Halo 2). As I was playing this game, I kept asking myself how a child would be able to play this game. I'm not sure how one could.
Bottom line: Don't buy this game, it is nearly impossible to play. I'm sure that after 5-10 hours of practice that I could have trained myself to handle the controls, but who wants to put that much time into just relearning? In the mean time you end up playing the same sequences over and over again! I left the room feeling extremely frustrated. I can't believe that a company could actually release a game that is this bad.
 Give it a play, but don't expect much. November 17, 2006
Cory Kasal (OK)
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
Though Sega lied about much of the problems from the Adventure series being fixed, those that can handle that and the load time will find in intriguing and somewhat fun addition to the Sonic series.
Though the town graphics seem sorta Dreamcasty, the rest of the games main stages are very fun and graphically appealing. Great use of colors and most of the textures are excellent. Many cut scenes are almost CG in quality, and despite the characters taller appearance, they do look really good. Voices are also well done.
As for the gameplay it is kind of messy still. Sega said they would have all the problems fixed from the Adventure series, but all in all some are even worse. For example in one stage your snowboarding down and suddenly the camera flips opposite, with no warning or anything. Later levels do this as well, but you eventually do learn when it flips (after several uncessary deaths).
Many unecessary deaths happen, and you'll learn to be very patient and sometimes will have to take it slow through the levels. Even the slightest nudge of the stick will send you careening to your death.
As for the camera, will it's very restricted too. you can reset it with L/R triggers, but the range is very limited. Tail's new ring bomb move is annoying in that everytime you fire it , it resets back to a default view, even with multiple enemies to hit.
Load times are horrendous. At one point you meet Tails, it loads for 15 seconds, you talk for about 15 seconds, then another 15 second load. This happens numerous times throughou the game, and on the action stages expect 2-3 different 15 second load times at intervals throughout the levels.
If you are a big Sonic fan, and can handle the issues Sega has had years to fix but hasn't, you'll find the game very rewarding and enjoyable once you get the hang of the levels. Otherwise give it a rent, it'll probably be one you either love or hate.
save your money November 29, 2006
JT
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
there are very few video games which lack at least one good thing to mention. This is one of them. This game is a total waste of time and money. The graphics are cheesy, the characters movements are choppy and erratic and at times they get stuck in a corner, the load time between scenes is extremely long. What irritates me most is that when starting a town mission, there is often a load screen, then a 5 second cutscene, and then another long load screen. Very very disappointing.
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