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great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the very few games out their where they need to publish a sound tract, the music is awsome! And though the cammra tends to get stuck in places and they have one unfavorable word (damn) to me its a great game and I think every one sould at least rent it and try it out.

This ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. It's hard, fun, and lots of action. You can do anything in this game. You ride in cool cars and lots of other things. If I were a teacher I'd give it a big fat A+. I'd give it to people anywhere. Guns and fun here. Pick good or evil,you choose. I'd give it (...)thumbs up.

THIS GAME RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game I have ever played. I play it all day and never get tired of it.

Wrong rating.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This rating is wrong. It has blood and bad language. They have to change the rating so teenagers, buy this game because it's violent. Don't get mistakened. Most E10+ games are for teen so don't get confused.

V.P

Violent but FUN!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Shadow the Hedgehog, Ratings

Graphics: 3 and 1/2 stars, Comments: The starting movie has the coolest graphics, clear, even, and totally sweet, but when you get to the game, the animators lose there awesomeness a bit and it gets slightly blocky and foggy, but that was OK.

Plot: 4 stars, Comments: Shadow, a shady friend of Sonic who can't remember his past except a small image, sees an army of evil dark aliens come down from the sky, there leader speaks to him and says Shadow must find all the Chaos Emeralds for him, as he promised, Shadow must decide to either, rid the world of these evil beings, get these "Chaos Emeralds" for himself, or work with the evil aliens. A pretty cheesy plot, but I'm not complaining.

Fun-ness: 5 star, Comments: SO COOL pretty violent (shooting, sword fighting, bombs, etc.) and swears every freaking he get hurt, but still is SOOO AWESOME!

Overall: 4 stars

SUMMARY:
It should maybe be rated T, but this is ultimatly a fun game that rocks.

Case Closed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm gonna write a review that will end this argument about ESRB making this a E10+ game (not all of the things listed here are on the back, just the first 2)

"Fantasy Violence"
For alien guns, moves like Honing attack Spin dash and Chaos blast and Chaos control.

"Mild Language"
This game does not have Strong Language as some guys say , you get S.L. for Damn no matter how meny times it's said, and as for hell, hell is meant as the place not the swear word,

Blood
Some parents (emphasis on parents) say this game has blood in it, to be honest I really don't know what it is, but ESRB did't say it was blood, so it can be what ever you want it to be.

Lyrics
In the music section in the option menu, the song "almost dead" the words "Heaven can't save us, hell is a joke" has people complaining, but there is not swearing in the songs so I don't know what the problem is.

Suggestive themes
I don't have much to put here, basicly people have a problem with the whole destroy all humans thing

So there it is thats all of the complaints of the "concerned parents" so quit writing about Language or what ever in this game.

uhhhh............

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this was a very intrsting game.Shadow had to use firearms to get through the level,something new for the sonic series.But i mean come on to my house for bacon ho ho ho happy easter!Shadow can;t be the ultimate life form iff he kneads weapons.this was a big dissapointment for me.I was excpecting fast gamplay.I bet you disagrree but this of a good 40 dollers.Its fun at first but then your in total shock like what happend.THEY CUSS IN THE GAME.you should be aware of that before you buy.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

All the bad reviews are horribly wrong. Shadow The Hedgehog is a HUGE improvement on Sonic Heroes, which was the worst Sonic game ever made, in my opinion. The graphics are great, especially in the cutscenes, though the PS2 is aging. The game lets you choose Shadow's path, if you want him to be good, neutral or evil. Either way is great. The addition of weapons makes multiplayer mode very fun, and if you get the rocket launcher, you will have your opponent running from you until the end of the game, where you either blow them up,or time runs out. So, yeah. If you liked Sonic Heroes, ignore the bad reviews, because this game is 20 times better.

Shows that Sega is desprate.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

WTF? Shadow the Hedgehog sucks. When Sega added guns, that meant they were desprate. It doesn't stay true to the franchise. I've played every Sonic game expect for some of the arcade ones, and they are all better than this. The story of this game is Shadow is on a planet, where all hell breaks loose. And quote, I'm not refering to Doom. You can chose one of three paths. Good,bad with Dr. Eggman, or bad with tall dark and mysterious. Depending on with path you choose, you'll face a certain end boss. I found myself in the game running into the same boss like 3 times. There are also some controll issues. All the people who give this game 5 stars must be high on crack. This game is a poor excuse for a Sonic game

Shadow the Train Wreck

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I would like to say that I have been following this series for several years now, and I have gotten at least some pleasure out of every installment in the franchise, with the exception of the incredibly frustrating Sonic Advance 2. However, the Sonic train had started to slow down too much (especially after the disappointing Heroes), so Sega decided that it was time to mature the series. So, they spent time building a new train, with some similarities to the old train. They looked at it, and decided that they wanted a "cooler" train. So they attached some weaponry and painted swear words on the side. Then they set it out for its maiden voyage. If you read the title of my review, then you should know what happened next. Shadow the Hedgehog is a complete and total train wreck, from presentation to gameplay to everything else.

Let's talk about the presentation first. I thought from the CG opening that I might be in for a real treat graphics-wise. Instead, I get character models that look worse than the Sonic Adventures and mostly bland environmental textures (though some look quite nice). Weapons, though they are essentially all the same, do look different (and in some cases, imaginative) at least. The levels basically look like the same ones you've been playing since the first Sonic Adventure, though, so that passing resemblance to previous entries in the series may be some comfort to otherwise-appalled fans. Overall, the graphics are mediocre at best. I'm positive that it's not the fact that I've been watching videos of Gears of War and Resistance, this game just doesn't look good.

The sound is even worse. The musical score, if you can call it that, is only noteworthy for its moments of extreme cheesiness. The voice acting ranges from decent to terrible, but they aren't as painful to the ears as an episode of the Viz dub of Naruto. Other than Shadow packing heat and the falsely alleged racism, what this game has possibly caused the most contoversy is the swearing. I can tell that most of the reviewers for this game are probably too young to be using this site, as they all either list the cursing as "cool" or as "evil". Quite frankly, it's neither; it's simply annoying after the first ten times. I'm playing this game to have fun, not to have Shadow unenthusiastically saying "damn it!" piping into my ears constantly! If the swearing were only in the cutscenes, it could have added some maturity to the story. Instead, it sounds like a six-year old using swear words because they make him sound "cool".

Lastly, the story. It basically consists of Shadow running around until he fights the final boss who reveals Shadow's origins to him. Yeah, this is compelling stuff, all right.

Now the gameplay. First of all, despite reviewers' claims, I have rarely experienced problems with the camera or the controls in previous Sonic titles. That has changed with Shadow. Shadow controls like a rabid squirrel on a frozen lake: slippery and uncontrollable. The addition of guns further muddies the control. You barely have any control over what you're aiming at. Vehicles seem to be the only thing that actually work properly.

As for the actual gameplay, I was hoping for either:

A: Standard 3D Sonic gameplay with weapons implemented well
or
B: Slower-paced, run-and gun action in a somewhat open world

Instead, I get some sort of fusion of the two that works in any way but well. Most of the time, it's basically Sonic Adventure 2, but you have to stop occasionally to shoot something. That's not exactly fun, but it's bearable, and it thankfully makes up nearly all of the neutral missions. My main gripe with it, besides the fact that it's not that much fun, is that no matter what side you're on (hero or evil), you get attacked by both sides. While I can understand the GUN soldiers, as they have been ordered to kill Shadow by a general who hates him for reasons unknown (though finding out what these reasons are is one of the game's only interesting plot points), but the Black Arms, aliens who are trying to help Shadow on the evil missions? Ugh. Where this game really collapses, though, is the tedious (and in some cases, endlessly frustrating) collecting and killing missions that make up the majority of hero and evil missions. Kill every soldier? Do I really have to if I want to advance the story in an evil direction? Help Charmy find some CDs? Can't I just find Sonic and the rest of the group and head somewhere FUN with them? Boss battles are not much better. Basically, there are 5-7 bosses that you will be forced to fight over and over again if you want to go for 100% completion. If that sounds fun to you, that's good, because that's what you'll be doing for most of your play time; playing the same darned stages that you just played on your last play-through. In fact, this regurgitation is the only reason Shadow the Hedgehog has so much content to offer. Basically, you'll be playing the same thing constantly. You have to see all 10 endings if you want the true ending, and most of these endings have little difference from each other, depending on which of the three final bosses you fight. Still, for the person who reads this review and for some reason still decides to buy the game, you are getting a lot of content for $20, and the only reason this game gets above a 2 for overall rating. Just don't come crying to me if you lose your mind after playing through the same stages for the umpteenth time.

Simply put, this game can be compared to Plan 9 from Outer Space quite easily; it's something that's terrible that takes itself too seriously to the point of being hilariously bad. Simply put: DON'T BUY IT.

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