Hooked Gamers reviews Sonic Unleashed

How many websites are going to review Sonic Unleashed? Well, this time Hooked Gamers reviewed Sonic Unleashed and gave it a 6. Here's the link to the full review:

http://www.hookedgamers.com/articles/review/772/sonic_unleashed/1

Fanon Sonic Special: How the Hedgehog Stoled Christmas

Merry Christmas! Since today is a holiday, I'm going to show the first Fanon Sonic Special. How the Hedgehog Stoled Christmas is like the Grinch's story, but Shadow is the one ruining Christmas.

1UP.com reviews Sonic Unleashed

Wow. For weeks, I had been posting alot of Sonic Unleashed reviews. Here's another one that 1UP.com reviewed the Wii verison of Sonic Unleashed. Sadly, 1UP.com gave Sonic Unleashed an D. Here's the link to the review:

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3172029&p=44

Nintendo Power interview Naoto Oshima

Naoto Oshima, the creator of the Sonic character, he has also directed many games and headed projects at Sonic Team, including NiGHTS Into Dreams with Yuji Naka and Sonic CD, he left SEGA shortly after Sonic Adventure. Nintendo Power had an interview with Naoto Oshima.

Here is page one of the inteview:
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Here is page two of the interview:
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Sonic and the Black Knight Countdown

I was looking for some more Black Knight info, until I found a countdown that IGN created. I added it on the right side of the blog. The countdown will be up there until Sonic and the Black Knight is out.

North America Sonic and the Black Knight Boxart

Remember the Black Knight boxart DarkHero Sonic posted on this blog? He found the Europe boxart. Today, I found the North America boxart. The game has Wi-Fi so you could trade treasures with other people on the internet. Weird that the Europe's rating of the game is 12+ (which is rated T) and the North America's rating of the game is E10+. Here's the picture of the boxart:

NGamer reviews Sonic Unleashed

NGamer reviewed Sonic Unleashed today. Here's the review scores:

Graphics: 6
Audio: 9
Gameplay: 5
Innovation: 2

Total: 58%

Sonic Unleashed Half Priced

Sonic Unleashed is half priced at Gamestation just for £17.98, but the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 verisons are at half price. If you live in Europe, it's a good time to buy Sonic Unleashed before Christmas.

New Black Knight screenshots

New Sonic and the Black Knight screenshots came out on Saturday. Here's the link to the new screenshots:

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=7483

X-Play reviews Xbox 360 verison of Sonic Unleashed

X-Play reviews Sonic Unleashed today, but they review the 360 verison than the Wii verison. The Xbox 360 verison looks really differnet than the Wii verison, like new stuff in the stages and you can walk around the stage you're at. Here's the video of the review:

Sonic World Adventure Box Art

Sonic World Adventure's box art came out today. Some people like this Japanese box art better than the Sonic Unleashed boxart we see. Here's a picture of the box art:

Sonic Chaos is coming to Wii

Sonic Chaos is going to released for the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console. Sonic Chaos might not be a Sonic game everybody knows, unless you're a real Sonic fan. The game is about Sonic and Tails getting Chaos Emeralds from Eggman. The game is already out or almost out for Virtual Console

Sonic Adventure 2 Hacks: Ep. 1 [Lost Test Level]

There wasn't much news today for Sonic, so I was looking for some Curiosity videos to post on this blog. I found a video from a dude named SonicAdvDX that's named....well, look at the title of this post. The video shows that Sonic is running around the stages you may know when it was testing. Here's the video:

My Sonic Game Review

Hey guys, Dannyboy here and I just want to thank the admins of GHZ for accepting me as a writer for GHZ

I am going to do a monthly review of old and new Sonic games. Here is my first review, enjoy!

Welcome to my review on the overly criticized Sonic game, or should I say Shadow game. Shadow the hedgehog is a darker game in the Sonic series where the player takes control of our favorite rival for Sonic, Shadow. After falling from the Ark and helping Sonic and the gang fight Metal Sonic, he became overly troubled about finding out his past.
He encounters many of our favorite classic stars and some new ones including the villainous Black Doom. Black Doom claims to know his past and will reveal it to Shadow only if he collects the seven chaos emeralds.

The player can choose to complete one of three different missions on most level. One being a good guy mission where Shadow is helping the fight against the Black Creatures, Two being a neutral mission where he is helping himself, and third a dark mission where shadow is going against the good guys and helping Doom.

There are several endings and once you complete them all, you can unlock the secret and true ending. I won't spoil it for you if you have not fully beaten the game yet.

Most criticizing remarks about this game come from how Shadow makes use of guns in most levels to achieve his goal. This game also introduces the word "Damn" into the glossary of vocabulary used by characters, but I do understand this game is for older players. It is rated E 10+ only because of these two features. If you are to young for it or do not like it then do not play it.

This concludes my review on Shadow the Hedgehog. Thanks for Reading and don't be a slowmo!

Maddie Blaustein passed away

The voice actor Maddie Blaustein (she acted as some character on Sonic X and other anime shows) died last week in her sleep from an illness.

2P START! reviews Sonic Unleashed Wii and Xbox 360

As said on the title, 2P START! reviews two verisons of Sonic Unleashed. It's weird that 2P START! likes the Xbox 360 verison when it gotten a very poor review on other sites. Here's the link to the review:

http://www.2pstart.com/reviews2/sonic-unleashed-dual-review/

The Escapist reviews Sonic Unleashed

WARNING: Cussing and Blood


The Escapist reviewed Sonic Unleashed today and maybe it was really harsh to the game and the Sonic the Hedgehog fans. Here's the link to the review:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/472-Sonic-Unleashed

Nintendo Power Review Scores

Nintendo Power reviewed the Wii verison of Sonic Unleashed (with some other games). Here's the review of Sonic Unleashed.

+ Best 3D Sonic gameplay yet
+ Graphics are fantastic
+ Classic Controller compatible
- Voice acting is terrible
- Werehog stages are boring

Total: 79%

eBay selling limited edition items

eBay is selling alot of cool limited edition items like a Sonic the Hedgehog original comic art, GameBoy Pocket A.C., Star Fox jacket, and some more. Here's a picture of the Sonic comic art:

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Master System is out for Wii

The Master System verison of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is out for Wii Virtual Console. This game is really differnet than the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 everybody knows and isn't that fun as the normal one.

"Sonic Shuffle" re-trademakarked.

According to the site Destructoid, Sega retrademarked "Sonic Shuffle". For those who doesn't know, Sonic Shuffle is a party game (like Mario Party, but in my opinion it's just a cheap copy of Mario Party) for the Dreamcast. This might mean Sega is planning on doing a new Sonic Shuffle game or a remake.

I already played Sonic Shuffle and I hated it, but if Sega make a new one that's at least decent I might buy it... I hope it's for the Wii.

Let's Tap boxart

The game's being made by Yuji Naka, who is currently the head of Prope, Let's Tap boxart was released recently. Check it out:

Xpike: Our New Member

Xpike did a great job and we agreed on letting him being our writer! Here was his work on the challenges:
(remember that the final ratings are rounded)
Challenge 1.: Video

A Great video of a Sonic song played in Guitar Hero 3 for PC! Yeah! 8/9 was our rate!

Challenge 2: Fan-Pics

2/3 Was our grade for this wonderful pic!

1/3 was our grade for this Werehog artwork!

3/3 was our grade for this awesome drawing of many Sonic characters!
So, the rates all together is 6/9! Wow, if he got one decimal less, he wouldn't pass...

Challenge 3: Review

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Sonic and the Secret Rings Review:Sonic and the Secret Rings (or SatSR) is a game for the Wii, made, pitifully,by SEGA. I say so because it's just a excuse for making money, it's not even funny. First to start, it's on rails, meaning you can't move backwards neither stop without pressing 1. Second it has a Mission system that confuse you, you don't know what you need to do next. (Like in Xbox 360 Sonic Unleashed :/)Sega could have made it Sonic's return to the mainstream, but no. The camera can also produce seizures. The good thing it's the bosses, they're alittle fun to defeat and very hard. The story is this: Sonic sleeps meanwhile reading a book (Very original) and a genie comes to say that the book is being destroyed (WTF?) by the genie of Aladdin (Which one?), which impales Sonic with a curse, which no matter how many time you take, never passes.To finish this review, I'll say it's a 6.3/10 game, but hear my words, IT COULD HAD BEEN A 9/10.

Not the best, but not the worst review we ever saw. It got a 6/9!

Give a welcome to our new member! Xpike!

Sonic Chronicles Half Price

If you live at Europe, Gamestation is selling Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood at half price of £14.67. The game maybe gotten a lower price, because of Christmas, so you better buy Sonic Chronicles before Christmas.

Green Hill Zone is looking for new writers!

If you want to be a new writer, fill out the form in the end of this post. If 3 out of the 4 admins of Green Hill Zone agree on you being a new writer, you have chances of being accepted. You will also have to go on with three challenges. The challenges will be rated by the ones who agreed on that person to be a writer. Those are the challenges.

1. Find a good video for a post here.(No porno or blood)
2. Find 3 very good fan-pics of a Sonic character.(No blood or porn please)
3. Making an outstanding review of a Sonic game, explaining your opinions clearly.

You must get at least 6/9 to pass each challenge. Good luck!

Here is the form:

Sonic and the Black Knight BoxArt has been found

The Sonic and the Black Knight BoxArt has been found. The boxart looks pretty awesome, well I hope the game will be awesome too.

Here is the boxart right here:

Secret Stages in Sonic Unleashed

In the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed you can collect a number of keys that unlock new missions in the past continents. Some of these missions include secret and extended stages. Here are the secret areas and secret stages in the video:

Sonic: Spagonia Extended
Sonic: Spagonia Sewers (Secret)
Sonic: Chun-Nan Valley (Secret)
Sonic: Chun-Nan Garden (Secret)
Sonic: Abadat Ruins (Secret)
Sonic: Shamar Buggy Ride (Secret)

Secret Sonic Unleashed Videos

I was still searching on YouTube for more videos and I found secret Sonic Unleashed videos. I only found three videos and the only characters are Sonic and Chip. I am not sure if there are anymore videos and maybe these are the only secret videos...

Abadat:


Holoska:


Chun-Nan:

New Sonic and the Black Knight Screenshots

I was searching on YouTube, finding some Sonic Unleashed videos until I found a video about Knuckles in Sonic and the Black Knight (I knew Knuckles was going to be in the game, but I looked at the video anyways). Once I viewed it, I seen some new screenshots I never seen.

Here is the video for you viewers to see:

More details on Sonic and the Black Knight

Yesterday I posted some news on SBK, today I'll post some more. All comes fromt the last edition of Nintendo Power. So here it goes:

• Movement Soul Surge: press B and shake - do a series of attacks in enemies in which you aimed or a very strong turbo that can be good to run out of danger;
• Some abilities de Sonic and the Secret Rings will return;
• Two new abilities: break shields with Paladin and Splash Jump with Cavalier, it's used to climb walls;
• Sonic's sword is called Caliburn;
• Stage: Molten Mines, which has mine cars;
• Stage: Titanic Plains. You can cut down the grass of this level;
• Repeat stages to unlock new ones;
• Multiplayer allows fights with CPU;
• It's probably being released in March of 2009;
• Aquire new abilities based on the fighting style you chose;
• The abilities are measured in "stars";
• You start the game in Misty Lake, and then you go to Camelot Castle, Molten Mine, Titanic Plains and more;
• There are two paths to be followed;
• Tails is a blacksmith who creates items using what you have collected.

Each time I think SBK will be a even better game!

Let's Tap

Yuji Naka (former head of Sonic Team and head of Prope) and the Prope crew are creating a new Sega game for their first project, Let's Tap for Nintendo Wii. Let's Tap have many party-like games to do, like Tap Runner, Rhythm Tap, Visualizer, Silent Blocks, and Bubble Voyager. Here's the video of the game.

New details about Sonic and the Black Knight

Hey there peoplez, Here is Flame, I'm proud to say that after a long hiatus, the creator of the blog is back! I also wanted to thank Shadow the Plumber and DHS for taking care of the blog. I liked alot what you did! :) Well, now let's go on with the news.
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The details below come from the last edition of Nintendo Power. Check out:

• The c-stick is used to move the character, A to jump, shake the WiiMote to attack, and Z to block;
• Knuckles, Shadow and Blaze are bosses, and the Knights of the Round Table;
• After defeating Knuckles, Shadow and Blaze they turn into allies;
• These same three might be playable;
• Each zone has about 6 to 9 missions;
• Fighting styles: "Cavalier" - velocity, "Paladin" - strenght, "Knight" - combination of the first two;
• Aquire new abilities durring the game.
• Multiplayer modes: Battle and Survivor Mode;
• There is solo missions specially created for challenges for online rankings.

That's all. It seems like Sonic and the Black Knight will be a pretty good game.

Planetary Pieces

Sega of Japan revealed the Sonic World Adventure (Japanese name of Sonic Unleashed) soundtrack and the release date for PS3 and 360 verisons of Sonic World Adventure is February 19th 2009. The soundtrack will be released on January 28th 2009. The soundtrack will have 91 songs from Sonic World Adventure.

Europe Sonic Unleashed PS3 Release Date and Black Knight Screenshot

Sega of Europe's Sonic City Blognik revealed that Europe's PS3 verison of Sonic Unleashed is coming out on December 19th while North America's PS3 verison is coming out in December 16th or 23rd.

Also new Sonic and the Black Knight screenshots were released. One screenshots for the game has Knuckles in it.