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Well now...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Alright. Let's see here...a Shadow the Hedgehog game. Well this should be interesting.

All in all, Shadow the Hedgehog is one of those games you feel is a gimmick. "Oh my god! It's Sonic, only he's black and he has a gun!" Yeah, the whole gun thing. I thought the really funny thing about the Sonic games was the ability to run circles around people who have firepower. Oh well, there goes that. Most of the guns, aside from making the game more 'edgy' don't have much of a purpose. Yeah yeah, long range attacks, blah blah blah. It just gave the makers a huge excuse to make there be some incredibly annoying amount of enemies who ALSO have firepower going at you.

In Sonic Adventure 2 the enemies shot slowly so you could dodge and easily retaliate with a homing attack. Here, we get rapid fire from the enemies, covering the screen with almost seizure-inducing lights. Way to go, SEGA. You just alienated everyone who played Sonic Adventure 2 for the ability to have breathing room.

Also, one of the main reasons I bought this game was for the ability to race through levels like the Sonic Adventure games let you do. Nope, because of the guns there's lots more tramping around to little areas to look for things. I thought I chose this game because I didn't think there would BE pointless missions like "Slaughter so and so many G.U.N soliders" or "Collect blah blah blah amount of blahs". Nope, they're still there. And if you think you can escape by shouldering the missions off to the side and taking your OWN route, well..have fun for about an hour, but you'll have beaten the game by then. And then you're kinda screwed because you have to do the other crap if you want your money's worth and the ability to beat the final boss.

Overall, the "offensive" language and "moody" music just make me think that we're raising a whole new generation of emo 12 year olds who can identify with this hedgehog who thinks his life sucks. Remind me never to be trapped in a room with them.

So yeah, it's actually an okay experience, but it should be priced down to more like $20. Rent it, play through the straightforward part, and don't buy it.

fun game, but why the cursing?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My 6 year old rented this, and yes as a parent I should have noticed the 10+, but I did not. I have no problem with anything in the game, except for the cursing when you die. Being 6, he fell off the board several times, and after 5 minutes of repetitive cursing he was repeating it subconsciously. He had to play the game on mute after that. The violence is not that bad, he has other games that has the same cartoon violence, but this is the first game I have seen (for children) that has cursing. I think it teaches very bad sportsmanship. Every time shadow dies or gets hit he curses, what is this teaching our kids? And for the kid who said in his review to get over it, you hear worse at school, yes in this day and age you do hear more cursing in public, but just because you do hear it, doesn't mean you should hear it. I don't think there should be an E for everyone 10+ rating. Why not just a 10+ rating? Also, because of the repetitive cursing (I wouldn't have minded one or two times, remember the Transformers movies or GI Joe?) I wouldn't have rated it 10+ unless the tv was on mute.

Adults...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, let's good a review from someone that has actually played this game. I am 11 years old and I know that saying the word d*** is wrong. now seven year olds don't know as well and THREE year olds definitely don't. First of all, don't blame SEGA/Sonic Team for the game being rated E 10+. It is ESRB's (Entertainment Software Rating Board) fault. I'm sure if SEGA/Sonic Team had the choice, they'd name it E. Also, I think the complaining parents are really lazy because they don't spend a good 15 minutes that you could use to talk to your kids that cursing is wrong (although the curses in this game aren't even censored on live TV anymore). Instead of using those 15 minutes of writing a pointless review, talk to your kids. (Psst, they only use damn and hell which is in the Bible) When I was FIVE, my parents took responsibility and talked to me about curses. Also, about gunplay. Do you think just by playing a videogame, a kid would want to shoot people's heads off? If you tell them not to while they're still young, it could make a huge difference.

My actual review for the game consists of this. This is a new type of game that SEGA has made. Without those constant curses (I'll even tell you that they are annoying), this game has nice sound and music (not counting the wierd comments by some characters). The gunplay is a nice touch to a game that is supposed to be naturally fast-paced. Many will disagree saying that there is no lock-on and the game did too much work. Well, if you're trying to just get to the end of the level, that could actually help. The story was okay, it told a lot about Shadow's past. But *SPOILER WARNING* in the last story, Shadow does give up his past, which is kind of a disappointment, *END SPOILER WARNING* and I really think a really good character will now go to waste. He will possibly never have a big role in a SEGA game ever again. The graphics were okay, some say they could have used some work, but I thought they were okay.

All in all, Shadow the Hedgehog is a great game, which has annoying curses although that is not a good enough reason to buy this awesome game.

very boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is so boring. All you do is run around in hover shoes and pick up guns to shoot people or aliens, you swear every time you get hurt, and you can run around dying easy. I don't know who made this game, but I addmit I like the music. The rest is all very very very very very boring. I think this game was a waste to buy. But if you like cool music, buy this game and listen to the music, but don't play the game itself.

Don't listen to www.gamespot.com

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Gamespot is lier this game is awsome they wrote that pice of crap becuse they hate shadow and I may like sonic more but the game rocks.Gamespot said that the game had tarbile controols and gameplay and that is sooooooo not true.Don't take advice from gamespot they are liers!

BYE CLASSIC SONIC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

good but the very 1st sonic game was da.....BEST.NO SONIC SONIC GAME COULD BEAT IT.THE NEW SONIC GAMES ARE AWESOME BUT THE 1ST SONIC WILL NOT...BE MATCHED ANY OTHER SONIC GAME

Our furry little friend gets a downgrade

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's a plane, it's a Falcon, nope sorry folks, it's Shadow the Hedgehog. Sob,sniffle. This game is so bad that when you play it reality is warped. Up is down, down is up. Left is right, right is left. There is no stopping this meaningless game. Guns + Shadow = crowd with pitchforks. Sega, your out of your leauge. Just roll over and die. The Sonic franchise has been around for about 20 years. End it. For all you little kids who say this game is hardcore, you must have a bad taste in games. I cry myself to sleeep at night, thinking of the people who bought this game. You've been ripped off. Don't worry people who agree with me. In a mere month or 2, you'll find this game in a bargain bin. Kudos to everyone who agrees with me. No kudos to the children who disagree. You just think this game is good. Some kids say you should buy this game. Yeah right. The only good game Sega has made is Criminal Origins for the Xbox 360.

i want my money back

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The guy who say this game is rock is a fool this game is crapy read the www.gamespot.com review and see why this game is bad.

a cool kid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game!!!!! It's so cool because you can get all these guns. I love when Shadow dies. He starts swearing. It's also really cool because you can choose your path if you want to be a good guy, a bad guys, or go by your own ways. You can get alot of different types of sonic guys, like Knuckles, Tails, and Sonic and more. You can also do two different types of special powers called chaos blast and chaos control. When you do chaos blast it will make a huge explosion. When you do chaos control it makes you invisible and you can fly around.

BAD LANUGUGE ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS AWSOME IT IS SO COOL AND WHEN SHAODW DIES HE GOES ...... ND SOMETIMES HE SAY YOUR GOING STRIGHT TO .... IT IS COOL!

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