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Cussing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

E-10 this should not be. Shooting aliens is not a problem but shooting the "good guys" is. And as the title says, cussing. Dark or otherwise there should not be cussing. I have let me 8 year old play T games that I felt were not as bad. My daughter (3) heard Shadow say his "damn it, not now" and now repeats that. He says more at other times as well.
Going back to the store.

Great Game, Bad Controls

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a really great game, it can become very addicting and is incredibly fun to play. My only problem is with the controls. The camera is bad, it screwed me up many times. Another thing is the homing attack. If you do not what that is, it is basically one of Shadow's move that involves you jumping, the pressing the button again to launch yourself straight into an enemy. Doing the homing attack once is okay, but to destroy an enemy you usually have to do it twice(it is possible to link two homing attacks.) When you do this you are at risk for falling off the edge of the course and losing a life. Other then this, it is a good game. Some people have been complaining that it is a unorthadox Sonic game because you can use guns and the style of gameply is mostly doing missions (such as actvating five jewels, collecting 400 rings, destroying a certain type of enemy.) One thing I have to say about this, is if you look very closely at the title, you might notice that it says Shadow the Hedgehog, not Sonic the Hedgehog, but Shadow. It is similar to Sonic and is created by the same people and has the entire cast of sonic in it, but it is still about shadow.

Overall Ratings

Graphics = 7/10. Nothing exceptional, but not terrible.

Camera = 3/10. SUCKS

Story = 10/10. The best part of this game is how you can choose your path to get through the six stages. There are over 20 stages, but in one story line you only get to play 6. After you beat the game, it will save your path so you can start over to get all eleven ending (there are over 300 paths you can take to get to one of the eleven endings) Each stage as 2 to three objectives, a hero objective (helping sonic, tails, espio, rouge etc.) a normal objective (sometimes there will only be a hero or dark objective, but most of the time there are three. A neutral objective is to get to the end of the level to get a chaos emerald) or a dark objective. The storyline starts with shadow trying to remember his past. All of a suddden the sky turns red and opens up and unleashes many black and red aliens. The leader of the aliens shows up and commands shadow to follow him and seems to know about shadows past. You get to chose whether to help him or help sonic destroy his horde or get the chaos emeralds to find the truth about your past.

Gameplay = 6/10. I wish I could give it a better grade, but the controls bring it down.

Voice acting aside, this is a pure gem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Oh. My. God. The voice acting su-ucks. I mean, Deem Bristow (Eggman's original voice) may have died but come on! Sonic sounds like a twenty year old, Tails sounds like a girl (he DOES NOT sound like he had a building stuck down his throat like in Sonc Heroes), Knuckles sounds like a rapper (he actually WAS a rapper in Sonic Adventure 2 but that is an another matter) and when you throught all the bad voice work was over, there is more. Erm, yay? Also, the script is weak. Almost every character says: Damn. Shadow, Sonic, Knuckles, Espio... etc. They put Damn in every sentance. 'Damn! Not here...', 'Damn! A dead end.' Damn, they got away.' 'Damn, we've been detected.' 'Where is that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald.' Damn it SEGA! Next time, Make their knowledge of words a bit more than just 'damn'. There are other words out there like... the ones in this review for instance. But hearing Sonic characters swear is priceless. I always laugh my head of when I hear it.

Enough with voice acting, let's start smashing up the stages.
Every stage looks the same. The are city stages (They all look like City Escape from SA2), the jungle stages (they look like Frog Forest from Heroes), the bases, ruins, castles and... that's it. 20 stages and they all look the same. The characters look just like Sonic Heroes except from the fact they are HORRIBLY animated.

The most interesting feature in Shadow is gunplay. Does it rock or suck? both actually. There is the basic and enjoyable handgun, a bozooka (YES!), machine guns and swords (Devil May Cry ahoy). The targeting system is a bit clumsy, but the satisfaction of having a machine got with 400 bullets in it (possible only here, obviously not in real life, obviously) shooting the crap out of anything that moves, doesnt move or something that doesn't take damage is indescribable. The mission system is slightly confusing. Beat this mission to unlock that mission that unlocks a weapon and a mission that unlocks a boss fight with a mission and a cutscene. Errr... what? I've already beaten two game paths, (The normal one and the true hero one and watching the endings is always cool. Even though the same words are repeated in each ending: I am Shadow (Insert either black arm, android or the Hedgehog), finally, I got ALL the Chaos Emeralds, THIS IS WHO I AM!!! Etc.

Overall scores

Graphics: 9
Backrounds: 3
Animation: 2
Characters: 9

Sound: 9
Voices: 5
Music: 10
Effects: 9

Gameplay: 9
Gunplay: 9
Replay value: 10
Platforming: 8
Combat: 8
Speed: 10

Overall score:
9/10
Shadow may be cool and his game might rock but what I really wante was a Knuckles The Echidna game. Think about it SEGA. Actually: DO IT SEGA, AND DO IT NOW!!! Damn it. The word typed just before was a quote from almost every character from Shadow The Hedgehog. Goodbye true believers. In next issie, I take on Fantastic 4's clunky but cool combat system. Until then, SO LONG SUCKAS! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Shadow The Hedgehog makes Sonic and friends be gun toting animals but it ain't bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yeah,its Shadow(but in many ways,its Sonic)with GUNS(OMG,WTF)and its has great gunplay,too.Sonic made his entrance to the 3-D fully,Sega world of 128 bit in 1999(really 1998 in Japan) with the smash hit classic game,"Sonic Adventure" for the Sega Dreamcast in september 1999.Even through Sonic running in 3-D was more awesome than its 16-bit classic glory days and the 3-D Sonic games are awesome,the old school 2-D Sonic was better.I ain't gonna explain why because I"m doing a review for this game.Here are the Pros:Gunplay is fun(through no lock ons for lots of guns),boss fights are great(yet sometimes hard),speed is slower but still fast(yet TOO fast),Super(I Call it "hyper")Shadow looks better(and better in cinimatic),chaos spear returns,its CO-OP,chaos powers rock,hyper Shadow can shoot energy blasts,great music,weapons rock,level designs are cool(not in a bad way),hyper shadow is better than adventure 2 and 2 Battle 2,Endings are sweet,combat rocks,Shadow can punch,standard enemys rock.Now here are the cons:Knuckles in Co-op can"t glide,sometimes the graphics turn decent,Tails can"t fly,voice acting sucks(why because Sonic X voice acting sucks go back to the old ones through tails and some other characters voices suck),dialonge SUCK,and,like with other sonic games,camera is SUCKS,more lock ons,and who would think of sonic with GUNS!!!Graphics:********(SOMETIMES 7)sound:**,gameplay:**********,tilt:*******,value:********...also how you beat Sonic and Diablon,use Sonic to jump higher attack diablon and then Diablon will attack.Avoid the attacks.When Sonic does homing attack,its can"t be avoided,but if you jump at the right time or do homing attack directly at sonic...you guarded!When you have Chaos blast...go and to diablon!!!Your invicible with CB OR CC AND YOU HAVE UNLIMITED AMMO FOR guns! GUNS!!Go to diablon sheild will be gone and do chaos blast rapidly!!!Heres how you beat Egg BREAKER USE THE TURRENTS AND ATTACK EGGMAN.Be careful because eggman will attack the turrents.Once the turrents destroyed.Go to the rocket with a gun.Also be careful when egg breaker attacks you when your in the air.Get off at the right time and do the stuff,again,and again,and again and eggman gets pissed off and will come to your area.Get guns and attaack egg breaker alot.Now I"ll tell you 2 more bosses.Heres Black Doom.Black Doom will attack you with non Close combat attacks.Once he's done attacking go to Black Doom and attack him with guns or homing attack.After a few hits,he will make an illusion of himself.After he and the illusions are done attacking,there will be one Black Doom...ATTACK HIM!!DO NOT USE CHAOS CONTROL its not useful even when Black Doom is done attacking!!!Now heres Devil Domm.Black Dooms true form and power.As Hyper Shadow you are invinsible but Dooms Attacks push you back..."Damn it"...when your close to doom attack with an energy blast,chaos spear, or even dash or chaos blast at the dooms eye.The eye with switch to the back of the fata*s.Attack Doom AGAIN AND GO BACK AND FRONT LOTS OF TIMES.attack at the right.......or screw me im spoiling it!!!!

Game Yet Unplayed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although I have yet to play this game, and am dying to, I think Sega went a little overboard here. Sonic games, guns, and cars just don't mix. Not even if the user of the guns and driver of the cars is Shadow. Still, it looks like a cool game. From what I see, this game happens just a little time after Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and is the game where we will finnaly find out all of Shadow's past. Apparently, an alien force comes to Earth, and strike a deal with Shadow. If he gets the seven Chaos Emeralds, the aliens will tell him everything about his past, and Maria. Similar to SA2B's famous phrase; 'Sayonara, Shadow the Hegehog...', this game holds a phrase as well. Shadow will say in a confused tone: 'Who am I?' Apparently, you switch from Sonic's side to the aliens' side until the end, where you must ultimately choose whoto join. Hopefully Hyper Shadow is in the game. Overall, 4 stars, or an 8/10. No guns or cars, and it would be a perfect 5 stars.

NOT a Sonic the Hedgehog game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For all the horrible ratings on this game for bad language and straying from the other Sonic the Hedgehog games because of use of weapons and vechicles, people must keep in mind that THIS IS NOT A SONIC THE HEDGEHOG GAME!!!!!Get youst to it!!It is only suppose to have a LITTLE of that Sonic touch in it.....jees.Yes, it should have been rated T, but it was ment to not be like Sonic the Hedgehog that much.It has a very good storyline and is an AWESOME game, so if you like Shadow.......BUY THIS GAME!!!!

A WASTE OF MONEY UNLESS YOU TRADE.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS ONE OF THE WORST GAMES MADE FOR THE PS2.IF YOU WANT A FUN HEDGEHOG AND FRIENDS GAME,GET"SONIC HEROES",IT MAY BE FROM 2002,BUT IT'S AT LEAST FUN AND YOU GET TO PLAY AS OTHER CHARACTERS AS WELL[MAX 12].THE GRAPHICS ARE HORRIBLE IN THIS GAME,1/5.I GIVE PROPS TO THE MOM THAT SAID SHADOW CURSES A LOT.HE SAYS SH... TO MANY TIMES AND DAMN AS WELL.THIS GAME IS ONLY COOL IN THE WEAPONS[WHICH GET ANNOYING AT TIMES],THAT'S WHY I GAVE THE FUN RATING A 2 INSTEAD OF 1.I MAY BE A LITTLE TO MAD ABOUT THIS GAME,BUT IF YOU PLAY IT YOU'LL KNOW WHY.EVERY TIME YOU GET TOUCHED BY AN OPPONENT,SHADOW FALLS AND LOSES HALF HIS RINGS.THIS GAME IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE DEPENDING ON HOW HORRIBLE IT REALLY IS.IT'S $30 NOW,WHEN IT SHOULD BE $3.I TRADED MY BELOVED "SONIC HEROES" GAME FOR THIS GAME AND I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW STUPID I WAS.I THOUGHT THIS GAME WAS GOOD,BUT FORGET IT.MY FRIEND THAT GAVE ME THIS HORRIBLE GAME PAID FULL PRICE FOR THIS GAME,$55.YOU SHOULD ONLY RENT OR TRADE FOR THIS GAME,BUT THAT'S ONLY IF YOU'RE A DIE-HARD SHADOW FAN,THAT'S RIGHT SHADOW,NOT SONIC,BECAUSE YOU WON'T SEE MUCH OF SONIC IN THIS GAME AND WHEN YOU DO,HE WON'T BE ANY HELP TO YOU WHATSOEVER.HE'LL ONLY BE ANNOYING.THIS GAME IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. OVERALL RATINGS,GRAPHICS 1/5,STYLE 2/5,FUN 2/5,STUFF TO DO 1/5,DEXTERITY 1/5,STRATEGY 2/5,OVERALL 1/5.

SONIC DOESNT LIKE 5O YEARS PAST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

HE LOOKS YOUNG,ACTS YOUNG,AND LOOKING FORWARD 2 THE SONIC 360 AND PS3 GAME,HEARD ITS CALLED SONIC THE HEDGEHOG AND ITS THE 3RD IN DA SONIC ADVENTURE SERIES,IF there are 22 levels from hero to dark then thats 44 levels

Not as good as I hoped but not as bad as I feared

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let's get one thing straght. Half of the moon wa blown off in Sonic Adventure 2. What do you see first in the game? Shadow standing in front of the moon at night. And the moon? Not even a SCRATCH!!! Also, at the end of SA2, Shadow lost one of his bracelets... well here he has them both. Look past the errors and you'll see a deeply average game. Shadow moves at mediocre speed, shooting enemies with a poorly rendered gun that runs out of ammo faster than you could say "This sawks"! But wait! Does Shadow really suck? Is it just a joke from SEGA? A joke that sucks up money from innocent Sonic fans? In many ways... well YEAH!!! Shadow just isn't ready for his own game. Knuckles really should have gotten his own game. In leet-speak: "Shadow is teh n00b 2nd Knux pwns him!!11!!1"

The graphics are very... average. While it looks good, there are faults. The animation for instance, is gorgeous during the CG movies but when in the game or while watching in-game movies, the animation is HORRIBLE!!! Also, none of the human characters animatwe well and none of them even have a shadow. A bit awkward watching the president walk in the White House. Walking in a wooden manner and having no shadow. Buh. Basically, everyone is terribly animated. A bit of a shame after the flawless animation and quality of Shadow's better bigger brother Sonic Heroes. So, to sum it up: The leads look well but animate crappy and all of the humans look like dog food.

The sound sucks. Crappy crappy crappy and just plain crappy voices with repeated effects and nice-enough music. To sum it up: The sound su-ucks!

Basically, everything about this game is painfully average. The speed, the guns the sound and everything else. But since Shadow and Rouge don't start dating (Knuckles and Rouge fit better together.) this gets 6/10. Dissapointment. Not y'all, get back to playing Metal Gear Solid 3... I am... when I get it... and that is unlikely... just start playing Sonic Heroes while whining about why SEGA did this to you.

6/10.
Shadow sucks and his game does as well. But they are really good at sucking.

The Dark Incarnation of Sonic. Get to know how I got an idea of buying this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Glossary:
K-Zone: Kid's magazine for the Philippines and Australia

Recess, Open courts, I was with my 2nd best friend Vitto and his friend Paolo; we were talking about games lots of stuff until he mentioned Shadow the Hedgehog. I asked him some questions. I said to him, "When I was reading a K-Zone in the game guru page, I saw Shadow the Hedgehog game, and I saw a picture that he was driving a motorcycle." He said, "Yeah! He can do that" "He can carry guns?" I asked. "That's right!" Paolo answered. Vitto and I were so before amazed with Sonic Heroes until Paolo mentioned Shadow the Hedgehog.

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