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Shadow the Hedgehog (Playstation 2)

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:39 pm
by metalgamer
Hello to all. This is my first review, so sorry if this is not the best.Shadow the Hedgehog, looking at youtube comments, not many people seem to like this game, saying that it sucks. I'm afraid I can not agree with this.

Story:
The story starts with monsters falling from the sky. Shadow talking about him having no memory of his past while monsters are attacking the city, then dooms eye comes to him ordering him to get the seven chaos emeralds as promised, Shadow believes him because he knows about his past. Shadow heads into Westopolis and the game begins. The story's structure is very intresting as the decisions you make determine the story. The actual story itself though can be intresting some of the time, but irrelevant at others, but is still very intresting to the end. 4/5

Gameplay:
The gameplay is decent, it gives you a very fast feel to the game even though you must stop a lot of the time because of the missions. Going off edges is a big problem in the game. In the game, even though when you run towards a ledge, you usually stop, but when using the homing attack, even when you aim for an enemy you can fall down easily. 3/5

Sound:
I am a metal fan, but I also love game music alot. I have to say, the soundtrack is amazing, the music really adds to the feel of the game. As for the voice acting is very usual and basic for a sonic game. Shadow's voice sounds really good. Sound effects blend in and aren't very noticeable. 5/5

Graphics:
I can honestly say, I don't get what the deal with graphics is, as long as the gameplay makes up for it, it's not something I pick on, but the graphics for the game aren't great, even for the time. The in-game cutscenes aren't very good to say the least. If the graphics of the cutscenes were like the ones at the beginning and end, it would have very impressive, but it is easy to notice the major drop in graphics. It seems they may have rushed some of the cutscenes. Beatuiful opening though 2.5/5

Overall:
It is one of my faviourte sonic games and is so fun to play, it can last you a long time, but after completion, it can get pretty boring. Apart from the graphics at times and the continous unneeded dying, Shadow the Hedgehog is a very good game. 4/5

Hope you enjoyed the review. I hope to do more of these in the future.

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:28 pm
by Schezo
Giving out a 2.5 kinda ruins the whole point of the 5 point system of a review. Pick either 2 or 3. Giving the story in a game about Shadow a 4 kind of screams "fanboy" and while that is fine on it's own, I could instantly see that I wouldn't agree on anything in this review.

Would love to hear a quick review of this by Reknoc.

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:06 pm
by richarddavies
Shadow the hedgehog makes baby jesus cry. It's a total abortion. I would've done a video review titled "What I think of Shadow the hedgehog" and then just posted a link to 2 girls 1 cup.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:09 am
by Quills on Wheels
I liked the game. :/

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:48 am
by sonicfanRICH
^ I knew you two would be best friends.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:33 am
by Quills on Wheels
Well, I really mean it, I love the game. Even the graphics aren't that bad. The story is also nice BUT one which SHADOW IS NOT A ROBOT! And if you didn't like the guns, you didn't have to use them, you could just do the homing attack which works just as well. Of course guns do it a little bit... better. Pretty much everything was good. But that's what I think.

Nice review MetalGamer.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:58 am
by Matty
I'll just leave this here :)

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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:22 am
by Gonic
Shadow The Hedgehog was stupidly long with missions that took about 5 - 30 minutes to complete. The story made no freaking sense due to there being ten endings and there was way to many bugs like falling through a floor for example. The only thing I enjoyed bout this game was the music and one or two levels which weren't destroyed by missions. The PS2 version suffered from framerate issues. Really bad ones. Why was there no mention of that?

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:45 am
by Reknoc
A Sonic review that's even more controversial than mine? Woah.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:51 am
by Tru
To be honest, I don't think the story is ever that important in a game like to this. To the game developers, it was probably put together at the last minute.

That said, I cannot comment on Shadow the Hedgehog as a game. Every time I play it, it crashes on me. All I can really comment on is far far away from the Sonic franchise it is; which is pretty far.