IGN: Sonic Adventure Review

[Pao]

While the upcoming Sonic Colors has a great deal of promise and Sonic 4 - Episode 1 is being developed as a return to the conventions of Sonic 2 from the Genesis era, Sonic Adventure is, in hindsight, the culmination of everything that made Sonic an also-ran to Nintendo's flagship mascot -- all (poorly aged) flash, and very little substance. Even as a curiosity, IGN would advise you give Sonic Adventure a wide berth.

Presentation - 5.0
Graphics - 6.5
SOund - 6.0
Gameplay - 3.5
Lasting Appeal - 7.0

Overall: 3.5/10

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http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/112/1120409p1.html

[CrazyT]

I do agree though. I like sonic adventure but it's just aged. I'm capable of finishing sonic's story without falling to sleep, even though the glitches i've gone used to. But the other characters are just boring, and they take 5/6 of the game. It's a lazy port.

The score is well deserved

[Aki-at]

That IGN review is pretty much... Eh bad all round. I agree it's aged badly but if they are going to be harsh with graphics for a game like Sonic Adventure, I hope they take other games at the time to the cleaners too. Furthermore even with the bad voice acting, that game still has a good enough soundtrack.

But then you read the review, 2D sections? Hard to find action stages? Characters only walk and not run in the Adventure Stage? The controls are different over the action and adventure stages?

Liars, truly, there is nothing else I can say, the majority of that review is a lie. Heck they mention the different abilities certain characters have, but not even mention how drastic each one's objective is. All starting off with the same "I was a SEGA kid blah blah" this really is one of the worst reviews I've read...

[Aki-at]

I do agree though. I like sonic adventure but it's just aged. I'm capable of finishing sonic's story without falling to sleep, even though the glitches i've gone used to. But the other characters are just boring, and they take 5/6 of the game. It's a lazy port.

The score is well deserved

Read the review, he hardly complains about the port itself.

And the other characters boring? Knuckles, Big and Amy, I can see what you mean, but Tails and Gamma are just as fast paced as Sonic...

[Orta]

lol.

[CrazyT]

I do agree though. I like sonic adventure but it's just aged. I'm capable of finishing sonic's story without falling to sleep, even though the glitches i've gone used to. But the other characters are just boring, and they take 5/6 of the game. It's a lazy port.

The score is well deserved

Read the review, he hardly complains about the port itself.

And the other characters boring? Knuckles, Big and Amy, I can see what you mean, but Tails and Gamma are just as fast paced as Sonic...

Ow wow... i'm speechless. Man I apologies for jumping into conclusions without actually reading the whole thing.

It was like I was reading a sonic 06 review, many of the flaws he's pointing out aren't even in the game :S

[George]

Big the Cat is the best Sonic character ever. The guy smokes pot and loses his frog. How can you not relate?

[CrazyT]

The review kind of annoys me, not because they rate a sonic game bad, but the way the review is written is just wrong at so many levels.

I have been saying "it's not ign but the games are just bad" for some time, but this review kind of takes away their whole credibility for me too because they (at least this particular guy) come off as pricks.

[max_cady]

Star digging some nerd holes...

[Radrappy]

It was a mistake to re-release this game in the first place.  Seriously.  Sega, stop whoring out your games.  It's not good for your already crumbling reputation.

[George]

I think it was a mistake that SEGA did not go back and fix the glitches that came with the game or add widescreen. I saw bad scores from a mile away.

[Autosaver]

Then again, there are some purists that will boycott the game if it isn't 100% the same.

I know that I said SA was bad. But It sure isn't worse then S06, even to this day.

[Sega Uranus]

I do not understand how it could ever be considered for such a low score. Speaking on content alone, it is easily the largest Xbox Live Arcade game so far, maybe even twice as large as anyone I can even think of, and for a very fair price.

As Aki said, it is basically all lies. When they wrote this they just wanted to make SEGA sound like shit, but of course I was expecting this. I can understand this is a bad port, but they did not even mention any of that shit. I doubt they even looked to see what half of the game is like on YouTube.

[fluffymoochicken]

Wow. If I were to judge Sonic Adventure by this review alone, I'd assume that there's no enjoyment to be derived from it at all.

[Barry the Nomad]

The IGN reviewer did touch one one of the major make or break aspects of whether I buy the game:

Performance is good, at least, as I can't remember any point where the game dropped below 60FPS.

So I'm sold in that respect. All the rest of the complaints sounded like typical SA1 hate. Of course I'll try before I buy, but based on the youtube E3 videos, it won't be a "no" from me.