Sonic 2006 Removed from XBOX360 Games on Demand
Last year, the almost universally panned 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog was made available via Microsoft’s XBOX360 Games on Demand service. It afforded a download-only option for anyone who wished to play the game, at a cost of $19.99 plus tax.
This week, we’ve learned via a News Tip the game is no longer available for purchase, without rhyme or reason. TSSZ News reader NeKit tells us the full game is no longer available for purchase be it through the XBOX 360 console portal or via the game’s listing on XBOX.com.
The game’s DLC remains available for purchase and download. No reason has been given for the main game’s removal. Most troubling from all this is that anyone who wishes to play the much maligned titles will now have to show his or her face next to a local retailer’s bargain bin, as rummaging ensues.
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Good riddance. Everything about that game was a train wreck.
Only thing I liked abou that game was the music.
mine is last boss music and cut sense
You know, it’s not such a bad thing XD
And nothing of value was lost…
Hey, I liked Sonic 2006. The game does not deserve hate, people. Just because it’s your opinion does not mean you can shove it down everyone’s throat. And just because the classic games were more memorable does not mean you get to say mean stuff about this game, either.
Besides, the game had Shadow and Rouge as a couple, the return of Blaze, memorable music and awesome graphics. How can anyone dislike those things anyway?
There is still a chance that this game will be remade in the future with the bugs fixed and the glitches removed, anyway (If SEGA decides to include this game in a future ‘collection’ game, which I doubt won’t be made until maybe the next few decades from now).
“There is still a chance that this game will be remade in the future with the bugs fixed and the glitches removed, anyway (If SEGA decides to include this game in a future ‘collection’ game, which I doubt won’t be made until maybe the next few decades from now).”
Absolutely. Just like how they fixed the glitches in Sonic Adventure when they rereleased it for XBOX Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
@StevenM
“Absolutely. Just like how they fixed the glitches in Sonic Adventure when they rereleased it for XBOX Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.”
Lol burn
I’m sorry but…not only is this the worst Sonic game I’ve ever played…this may be one of the worst games I’ve ever played period.
Being avaliable or not, that doesn’t make any difference. No one would buy it… Unless you’re Justin Biever
It’s been four years. I think everyone who wanted a shot at raging at it has done so by now.
Even so, people need to stop hating this game. It’s just a game, people. It is not the end of the world or anything.
@ Vulpine
…..Sonic 4….(coughs, then gets anvalanched with hate speeches and replies because of a simple mentioning of a title)
@StevenM
I see what you did there. That’s why I’ll continue to enjoy it on my Dreamcast thank you very much!
I’m lucky I bought this while it was still up! I love this game. I really don’t find anything wrong with it story-wise, especially since it’s non-canon. As for the glitches, just try and overlook them and you’ll have a blast (minus the Knux and Rouge wall glitch)
I really have to agree with Vulpine here. The game doesn’t deserve that much hate. If you don’t like it then fine, just don’t broadcast it to the world. We’ve heard it enough and it’s friggin’ annoying.
@ Miguel
B-but I hate Justin Beiber and love this game! What can I do to stop myself from turning into this teen freak?
@ Kickassnessity
I’ve been meaning to tell you that that is one of the coolest usernames I’ve ever seen in my life, aside from my ‘usernamessuck’ usernames.
I agree that the game is better than most give it credit for, but from a technical standpoint (load times, slowdown, etc.), the game has much room for improvement before SEGA should consider re-releasing it in a future collection.
And SEGA took the remaining copies to a hole in the desert, and buried them
The End
@Vulpine
You obviously have a lot of patience to actually like this game. And that’s a bit hypocritical saying that we shouldn’t shove our opinion down everyone’s throat when you say that this game doesn’t deserve hate. No one’s forcing anyone to hate this game because they might not have even played it yet. And if they haven’t, I would consider them to be very lucky people.
And it’s not just a game, it’s a visual representation of everything that is wrong with the Sonic series and Sega themselves.
And no. Sega doesn’t care about fixing bugs or glitches. Well except for Sonic 4 but even so that’s not enough to make them permanently change their attitude towards bug testing.
I kind of enjoyed the title as a Sonic fan, and generally feel that it faces undeserved hostility based on a “lifetime achievement award” for past Sonic dissapointments. While Heroes and Shadow frustrated people…they weren’t all that different from Adventure and weren’t terrible by any stretch. When ’06 was technically brutal from a design standpoint, they heaped years of frustration on the game. a 5.5-6.0 game became a 3.0 game out of that, IMO.
And now, for a few years, it has been justified to rank all Sonic titles under 5.0. It was really ridicolous with Unleashed, which was vastly superior to Heroes but got rankings worse than ’06.
@Vulpine: Good thing you’re joking about liking this shitty game.
Oh dear. And I actually do want to play it sometime, if for nothing else than a good laugh and to say I did. I’m definitely too patient for my own good 😀
Wow Sonic 😀
@Crazee: And now, for a few years, it has been justified to rank all Sonic titles under 5.0. It was really ridicolous with Unleashed, which was vastly superior to Heroes but got rankings worse than ’06.
TRUE WORDS !
well…i have this game…and sorry but i don’t like the music, i don’t like the stages and i don’t like the eggman design…
the only 3 epics things in this game are MEPHILES, he is SO COOL and AWESOME, the theme “His World” and gameplay of Silver the Ranger Hedgehog xD
Mephiles the Dark is more cool character that Shadow the Hedgehog is…
yeap, Metal Sonic and Mephiles -> YES!
thats my opinion
@Vulpine
There is people who like it, but don’t expect others to love it too
@Vulpine
It’s not that we hated seeing Shadow and Rouge as a couple, Blaze returning, and a very nice soundtrack, it’s that we hate the game because it was an unfinished piece of trash riddled with bugs and glitches. The graphics were very nice indeed, especially the pre rendered cutscenes at the beginning of each hedgehogs episodes, but we don’t like the game because it was nearly impossible to play.
like many others I don’t understand why people hate Sonic 2006 so much.
god it had to be one of my favourite sonic games actually. Epic villain, cool music, and more then 1 hedgehog :3
true glitches are annoying. though some are useful as hell, like Sonic’s purple gem glitch of awesomeness :3 or Silver’s evil multiplayer tactic of doom XD
god I loved Mephy he was just too awesome.
my point is just to say people are getting WAAAAAAY past too frustrated on Sonic games. I’m not only talking about Sonic 06 now.
Hmm, do you think they were actually LOSING money by having it up on Live?
Now all they need to do is get rid of Unleashed and all will be well.
This game is bad for many reasons:
1- Silver is slow in running and killing, the levels and the hub world are too big for him( it took me forever to find the next stage).
2- Amigos aren’t better they all play worse than Sonic Labyrinth(except Blaze), there shouldn’t have been any Amigos in the first place.
3- The story, will the story could have been really great without Elise(and her kiss), I mean Shadow had a great story why should Sonic run after a girl for the whole game.
4- bugs, glitches ,control and the camera all bad.
Will I liked the music, graphics and Sonic and Shadow’s gameplay(still has bugs and glitches) but they also felt slow.
My point is SEGA shouldn’t have made this game, I,m as a Sonic fan lived in shame in 2006, even though Shadow the Hedgehog wasn’t what I expected it is still much much better than this game.
terrible game
Ironically, Robotniks design, the level design and the music were the best parts of the game. They gave potential to be something really awesome. The object placement (dashpaddashpadhomingchainddashpad), the story, the load times, and the glitchy gameplay made it a chore and a complete wreck to play.
To make Nextgen a redeemable game: take the level design, music, and Robotniks design (as well as his mechs) and move it to an engine similar to SA1/SA2; THEN the game would be improved 10000%.
I’m usually the kind of guy who won’t bother with other people’s reason to enjoy a game. I’m nice about it and say “more power to you”. Hell, I actually enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog.
But even then, there’s no way you guys can like Sonic ’06. You can’t just simply ignore the glitches and bugs like if it didn’t exist. You can’t tell me to just go with it and have fun when the game punishes me for no reason other then to frustrate me to no end. And even if the bugs and glitches were gone, the stage designs aren’t exactly masterpieces. Why are there 3 rows of rings on a loop when you can’t even change your direction while running automatically on the loop? Why is there sections where you can fight countless enemies even though you can just skip it? Why am I given a choice to run through a path that has a grind rail that leads me to no where?
Loading times I can deal with, and maybe even a few glitches, but when I try my hardest to get a high score and an S rank in a very long stage, only to screw up because the game decided not to let me win by having me fall through the floor towards an infinite pitfall without being capable of restarting from a checkpoint, the game is over.
@ ■Setnaro X:
I liked it enough to get every Achievement for the game, so perhaps there is a way people like the game. I rarely encountered glitches.
Lemme just get my flame shield…
I actually enjoyed Sonic ’06. Load times were crappy, but that was the only problem I ever ran into.
I also thought the story was pretty awesome, aside from the whole human-female-plus-giant-blue-anthropomorphic-hedgehog-romance.
@Skai Cyan:
This is a thing that actually some of you may not know, but it is indeed possible that MS charged Sega for alone AVAILABILITY of a few GB big file on their servers; if nobody bought it, it would be pure financial loss.
@ Setnaro X:
Well said! *applauds*
I’d love to see an article.documentary/interviews/whatever detailing just exactly what went on in ST during the development of the game. The Making of Sonic 2006 – I’d buy it.
Well, it may not be the best Sonic game in the world, but I liked it. Even so, no matter how much you say, it makes me sad when a bunch of people are putting too much hate on a game that I enjoyed.
However, it is nice to hear that there is still people who liked it, so I am not the only one.
“Most troubling from all this is that anyone who wishes to play the much maligned titles will now have to show his or her face next to a local retailer’s bargain bin, as rummaging ensues.”
….anyone would actually be stressed NOT being able to play this game? Jeez.
Shadow and Rouge were a couple in 2006? Seriously? Who the fuck saw that in the story? (I’m wondering how many of you are just simply reading too much into it.)
@Yamishi: I’m betting that it was the Elise/Sonic romance that got the title canned from being downloadable in the first place, and I’m EXTREMELY surprised that no one mentioned that before you did!
I mean seriously. A human and a hedgehog? I’d imagine human childbirth is painful enough without the fetuses being spiky.
@stan432231
Ah, yeah I figured it would be an arrangement akin to that. I wonder how much it costs to keep something up. Is the equation something like “Data_size x days_available = content_cost”?
So like this is the only Sonic game I bought and sold without rebuying it at a later date.
Well, at least this game is better then Sonic Rivals 2, that’s for sure. I rather see Shadow/Rouge be canon then Knuckles/Rouge, because there is no way that rivals will ever develop into a couple despite what fanfic writers want them to be (Knuckles does not like Rouge since she is his rival).
@Haru
Yes they were (Well, this game had the most hints of Shadow and Rouge being a couple as opposed to all the other games they’re in). Rouge even said to Shadow in one of the scenes that even the world turns against him, she will always be on his side. Too bad Sonic 2006’s storyline “never happened” in the series’ canon. We can only hope for a remake of this game (with all the bugs removed) sometime in the next several years.
This is better than unleashed in my opinion
Ok so i half to disagree with most comments on this blog while i do fell this game is low on the list of my fav sonics and i agree it does have many problems i still have a respect for the game. people worked long on this game and due to budgets and other timeing issues it never got a proper finish which is a shame cause it had tons of potencial now im a huge sonic fan i admit (ps. sonic adventure 1 and 2 are perfect to me shame on anyone who insults them cause there not true sonic fans) but i can also admit if a games not very good and againe while this is not my fondest memories of sonic and does not come close to the adventure games i still enjoyed alot of aspects of the game and have come to respect it where it almost has so many issues that the good shines though!! like crises city great level and alot of later levels includeing the castle at the end were fun fairly fast and the gliches did not bother or affect my gameplay at all I think alot of people just pick up a game and never finish it which i dont think there entitled to a true review of a game unless they do. All in all whatever people might think is ok but dont bash it thats way lame and a true gamer would try to find the good in it instead of point out all the bad. ps. sonic unleashed may have gotten horrible reviews but that was a great game amazeing daytime levels and gameplay any sonic fan can see that.
pps. just cause you played classic sonic does not make you a sonic fan nor does only playing resident evil make you a horror game fan.