The diabolical Dr. Eggman has hatched another plan for world domination! He has built an amazing interstellar amusement park, floating in space around Sonic’s home planet, bursting with incredible rides and attractions. However, all is not as it seems as Dr. Eggman has abducted an alien race called Wisps and is harnessing their colorful energy to fuel a sinister plot. However, before Dr. Eggman completes his evil plans, Sonic discovers his mysterious theme park in space. When he arrives, Sonic finds he is also able to use these alien powers and is ready to help! Sonic will need all his speed and skill as he faces this test, but, empowered by the alien energy, it’s a test he’ll pass with flying colors!
Synopsis
The diabolical Dr. Eggman has hatched another plan for world domination! He has built an amazing interstellar amusement park, floating in space around Sonic’s home planet, bursting with incredible rides and attractions. However, all is not as it seems as Dr. Eggman has abducted an alien race called Wisps and is harnessing their colorful energy to fuel a sinister plot. However, before Dr. Eggman completes his evil plans, Sonic discovers his mysterious theme park in space. When he arrives, Sonic finds he is also able to use these alien powers and is ready to help! Sonic will need all his speed and skill as he faces this test, but, empowered by the alien energy, it’s a test he’ll pass with flying colors!
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Features
- Non-stop high-speed action.
- Collect and engage the new power-ups derived from the colored energy of the Wisps!
- Unique Color Power for Wii™
- Perfect blend of 3D & classic 2D perspectives on Wii.
The hedgehog is seeing stars in a true-blue adventure,
Don’t listen to people who tell you that this game is gimmicky and unfortunate, like most other Sonic games. This is a hedgehog of a different color.
Taking the best elements of Sonic Unleashed and of recent outings like Sonic 4, this game is all about speed, with Sonic taking advantage of the power of the alien wisps to traverse beautiful alien landscapes in a frantic platforming adventure.
The alien powers come in different colors, each one granting Sonic a useful ability. Most of them, with a few exceptions, are fun and keep the game fast and furious, as it should be.
The farther into the game you get, the more of these alien powers you earn. These can be used in previous levels, creating a fantastic replay value, allowing you to traverse levels in a number of different ways.
Sonic doesn’t dissapoint this time, this game is pure fun. Aside from a startling number of cheap deaths and strange physics, this game is a solid effort by Sonic Team. Despite it’s kiddy premise and storyline, there is much more to this game than meets the eye, and a more difficult, hardcore game can be found beneath the surface. Beautiful graphics and clever gameplay keep this game a step ahead of the previous Sonic disasters.
Sonic Colors is a fantastic game and is extremley inventive and colorul. I commend Sonic Team’s efforts, this Sonic isn’t as slow as the others, and I give it only my full reccomendation!
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|Finally!,
I’ve been a fan of Sonic since the first time I picked up Sonic the Hedgehog on my Sega Genesis. Unfortunately, he’s tested my will for the last several years with some horrible 3D efforts.
Sonic Colors, surprisingly, gets everything right. As I played through the game, I couldn’t help but anticipate something wrong to happen…it was just too good to be true. This time, they throw in some aspects new to the series, in the form of small aliens called Wisps that give you different powers. These are a fun addition to the series, and allows for much more creative level design without slowing down the Sonic speed that we play the games for.
The story is mostly standard, cutesy Sonic fare, with the welcomed addition of some honest, self-aware humor from Sonic Team. The graphics are some of the best on the Wii, in both character and level design. Like the name says, the colors and lighting are gorgeous on this game. Even the sound is good…the voice acting is actually pretty decent!
The biggest plus is the gameplay, which unsurprisingly, plays a bit like a faster Super Mario Bros game. The controls are tight, and the level design is nearly perfect. Sonic still moves fast, and this time it’s actually fun to control. There’s about 12 hours of gameplay through the story, and a lot of incentive to keep playing to find the challenging red rings in the levels. The game suddenly hits you with a big difficulty curve. I had quite a few moments of frustration that nearly killed the entire game for me. We’re talking serious wanna-chuck-the-controller-into-expensive-television moments.
Pros: Great graphics, level design, and gameplay.
Cons: Steep difficulty curve, some menus look very thrown-together.
In conclusion, this is a great game I’d recommend to new gamers, and experienced veterans alike. It’s the first Sonic game of the last three years I can honestly tell fans of the series to go pick up.
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|Old School Sonic Back in Style.,
I preordered this game seeing this as a golden chance for the hedgehog to finally have a good game. Here are my thoughts.
Once again like the last sonic game Unleashed for the Wii you have a choice between using 3 different control schemes. The Wii remote/ Nunchuk, Classic Controller, And Gamecube controller. So far i have only tried out the Wii and Nunchuk and i believe this game is the game alot of sonic fans have been waiting for. It adds all the elements that people loved about the day time stages in sonic unleashed and takes it now into space against Dr. Robotnik’s badniks robots and a amusement park that has everything from shiny colors to even a foot planet that will make you hungry. I believe this game is a step in the right direction for not only old sonic fans but even new sonic fans. Including the final change of the voice actors. (They finally replace Tails’s voice actor with a boy for once.) As well as having a beautiful box art with sonic and the aliens coming right at you.
Pros: Good controls for a Game that many people were thinking was gonna be another horrific sonic game.
Good story showing some new elements as well as the new alien power ups.
New voice actors replacing the horrible 4Kids voice actors that every sonic fan hated.
Sticking straight to the main characters and not adding a bunch of useless characters (amy cream cheese and Big the cat) Just having Sonic Tails Dr. Robotnik, And the bad guys.
Cons: Controls were a little bit hard to get used to. But very quickly after a few tries you will master them with ease.
Some pitfalls here and there can get a little annoying but with practice you can pass them after playing the game through a few times on each level.
Final Score: 8/10
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