Gamespot: 7/10 for Unleashed Wii

12 December, 2008 29 March, 2021

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With Gamespot getting flamed by Sonic fans because of their so called ‘biased’ review, this will either please or anger those fans. And for the record, this review is by the same person who reviewed the 360 version. Gamespot gave the Wii version of Unleashed a much better score than expected, 7/10.

Unlike the 360 build, they enjoyed the Sonic daytime stages:

The traditional Sonic levels are a blast. You’ll sprint across the land at top speeds, just like Sonic is supposed to do, and tight controls make the whole thing very enjoyable. It’s incredibly easy to snatch precious rings as you sprint by, target enemies to leap to higher platforms, and wall-jump up tight passageways, all without slowing down for even a second. The responsive controls are the backbone of this adventure, making it fun and rewarding to sprint through these levels as fast as possible, but the level design also deserves praise. Everything is intelligently laid out, letting you see obstacles well in advance.

And the only problem they had with it (and I expect most Wii/Ps2 owners to agree with this) is that there wasn’t enough of them.

They didn’t find the Werehog stages better than Sonic’s, but at least they thought they were satisfying:

The slower pace is pretty jarring after playing the supers-peedy Sonic levels, but it can still be satisfying to play as the werehog.

Here are Gamespot’s “The Good” and “The Bad” for the Wii build of Unleashed.

The Good:

Exciting hedgehog stages
Tight controls
Impressive visuals

The Bad:

Too many werehog stages
Combat is repetitive and mindless

The rest of the review can be found here!

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

28 Comments

Awesome

Yahoo! That’s what I like to here!

As it turns out, the standard def versions are better than the HD versions, unlike previously thought.

WHAT?!?!? AND THEY GAVE THE OTHER VERSION A 3.5?!?!?

….I AM SPEECHLESS……………………………………HOW DID THE WII VERSION GET RATED HIGHER THEN THE 360 VERSION???????????????????????????WELL WHATEVER THESE CRITICS SUCK AT CRITICIZING……OHH AND WAT HAPPENED TO THE LEADERBOARDS THAT SONIC UNLEASHED 360 IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE???

It,s a beat-em up component for the were-hog! Of course It’ll be mind-less!

Ok, so for fans that own a Wii and a PS3/360
Wii=OK
360/PS3= King of Sonic
Critics:
Wii= King of Sonic
360= Bull****

THIIS IS RIDICULOUS! The Wii version has more Werehog levels than the 360/PS3 version.

There is something very wrong with this picture…

Like i have said sonic has always favored on the nintendo consoles. Fans: X360/PS3 90/100 Wii 85/100 and PS2 -5 jk

What I dont get is the werehog has more levels thing they only bashed the the other version for button mashing and other stuff.

@Accell-san: That is true. Sonic Riders on the GameCube sold more than the Xbox and PS2 combimed.

Haha I cannot believe how ridiculous these people are about the ratings this game has been getting. Its a terrible game so there for a bad score is acceptable. I’m not saying that a 7 is a wrong score for this game but neither is a 4 or 5.

People, get over it, it´s getting old!

@MayaTemple: Seriously! I can’t even believe any more websites were going to review Unleashed. After SegaNerds and their, erm, “un-Sega like conduct”, I figured that people were so fed up with reviews that it was over. Alas, I was wrong.

But this is good news to hear, because I’m getting the Wii version.

Come on Christmas, I want to play SU for my Wii so bad.

In my opinion, the 360/PS3 versions are the best; using the Hedgehog Engine- Global illumination, and real-time data streaming. The Wii version uses a modified internal engine. The 360/PS3 versions look amazing; 10X better than Sonic 06. And the fish eye camera blur effect looks amazing when dashing at high speeds.

Oops, used amazing twice… How about… Spectacular… Or…. Marvelous. 🙂

If the Wii version got 7/10 then the 360/PS3 versions should have got at least 8.5/10

Wii is winning with reviewers..

And so this continues…

Consoles fanboys/girls begin your console wars. *garbs the popcorn*

I like the wii version awesome version

Acell, nice job, you started the console war. *gets ready to eat popcorn* I agree that having motion controls in a is more fun and healthy for you than pressing buttons. Mario and Sonic, Wii Sports, and Wii Fit got me tired.