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haze
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 Posted - 07/25/2007 : 13:48:52
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Intro: Sonic and the secret rings released on february 21st, and is the first fully 3D sonic game that sonic has been the lone playable character.
Graphics: Nice, very nice, The graphics in this game are definately one of the better ones, Bright colours, appropriate toneing and effects on the surrounding ( for example, in evil foundary, it is soo hot it looks like the ground and walls are made of water or melting.) The fact that Sonic and the secret rings runs in 480p and 16:9 is most definately an added bonus. Nothing bad can really be said about the visuals, the game runs at a consistant 30 frames per second so there is no slow down, and the speed is always constant even when there are alot of enemies on stage or a tonne of action is taking place. Graphics in this game get a 4/5
Gameplay: Now we know that the graphics are good, but how about how the game plays? Sonic and the secret rings is played with just the Wiimote horizontally. Now many of you may be thinking, but wait, thats how you play a driving game?! well Sonic team implemented this control stype excelently. Sonic is always running on his own on a predetermined path, like the sonic games of old, on the legenday Genisis. you tilt the Wii remote side to side (left and right) to make sonic move in those respective directions. you ptap the two button to do a forwarad jump, which is excellent for gainging speed quickley after defeating an enemy or for just hurdling of something at a constant speed. You press and hold the Two button to charge a jump,and then tilt the wiimote, once your targe has been locked one (also automatic) to hurl yourself at an enemy, this can be done consecutively as in previous sonic games. The only diffrence between just tapping the Two button do hurdle obsticals and pressing and holding the Two button to jump higher and attack enemies, is that when you press and hold, you sacrifice speed for hight. The one button can be pressed and held to stop sonic completly and, when in mid air to stop and charge down at the ground, and upgrade can be gotten to make fire swirl around him when he does the mid air drop. You tilt the Wiimote backwards to walk backwards and press two to do a backflipm which covers more ground, and when you get an upgrade, engulfs sonic inflames for a backwards attack. The controls run smoothly for this game and definatly add to the fun of the game, without one having to do the sterotypical exagerated motions (Which by the way, no do not have to do in any Wii Game) The levels are a good length, not two long,and not short, their long enough to make playing the game worth it time wise, and short enough to have you saying, " When is this level ever going to end?!" There is a special book where you can check out your unlockables so it increases replay vaule. The Multi-player is alright, its just a bunch of mini games with the themes of the games levels. The dreaded camera angle with almost all sonic 3D games has been fixed, becasue it is a set camera angle, meaning you cant change it, but its no a bad thing becasue the set camera always has good angles so you can always see where your going, except if your walking backwards. The only gameplay flaw is really the missions you have to complete to unlock new levels, most to all of them (about 97% to give a percentage) ace completely pointless and have no relavance to the story, My only wish is that they made more of the missions (okay about ALL) connect, if not exacly to the story, the atleast with each other, becasue most to all the missions have you asking yourself, why did they add this? This has no relavance to the story. but all in all, game play is good, so i give thee, 3.5/5
Final Say: Sonic and the secret rings is sonic teams best outing, and goes to show that when they put the effot into it, they can actually make a pretty decent game (ie sonic rush) All I have to say to this game and to Sega's Sonic team is, finally, Sonic 3D done right!
final score:
7.5/10
here is the first level Sand Oasis
here is the boss of sand oasis: Sand Scorpion
here is the second level Dinosaur Jungle
here is the third level: Evil Foundry
here is the boss of evil foundry: Ifrit Golem
here is the fourth level: Levitated Ruin
here is the fifth level: Pirate Storm
here is the boss of Pirate Storm: Captain Bemoth
Here is the sixth level: Skeleton Dome
Here is the seventh and final level: Night Palace
*Note* the video quality is pretty bad, due to poor camera quality, but is still viewable
Here are the Final Battles
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allukahnoskill
Arcade Junkie
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Posted - 08/11/2007 : 13:53:59
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cool trailer, wen do you think you'll get the second level up?
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haze
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 Posted - 08/11/2007 : 14:01:38
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Originally posted by allukahnoskill
cool trailer, wen do you think you'll get the second level up?
the second level is complete actually. Im just adding the end credits and uploading it.
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haze
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Canada
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Posted - 08/11/2007 : 15:23:51
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I will post all the levels and some bonus content by about next sunday. im posting this all kinda fast becasue metroid prime 3 corruption is comming out in about 2 weeks and when it does come out, i'll probably be playing it non-stop, so you may not see me for a bit.
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allukahnoskill
Arcade Junkie
233 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2007 : 12:19:46
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sweet. New video. when do you think you will finish all of them ?
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Moose
Sage
Canada
226 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2007 : 12:39:35
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he has. he just hasent posted them yet. Right?
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haze
Moderator
Canada
579 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2007 : 12:43:39
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Originally posted by Moose
he has. he just hasent posted them yet. Right?
correct, 1000 points to moose. I have completed all the of the vids for this game, the ONLY vid i havnt completed is the final battles.
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allukahnoskill
Arcade Junkie
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Posted - 08/14/2007 : 12:45:58
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oh, okay cool! when will you finish posting them all
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haze
Moderator
Canada
579 Posts |
Posted - 08/14/2007 : 13:47:19
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Originally posted by allukahnoskill
oh, okay cool! when will you finish posting them all
hopefully by aug 20th, latest aug 25th
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Superduperlad
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 08/15/2007 : 10:23:37
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Nice use of videos for the review Haze.
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haze
Moderator
Canada
579 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2007 : 18:12:15
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thanx
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Superduperlad
Administrator
Canada
589 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2007 : 14:16:00
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wow. So many Videoes
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stormbreaker
Arcade Junkie
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2007 : 16:49:03
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pretty good vids. are we ever gonna get ps3 videos?
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haze
Moderator
Canada
579 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 12:48:28
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okay, so the final gameplay trailer its complete and is just awaiting uploading, i'll post an explanation of the final showdowns awile after, note that the sound quality has gone down in the final trailer. because the mocrophone i was using brokek, but the overall visually quality has gone up.
*update*
Its going to take a little longer to post the final trailer, becasue the file is too large for youtube, so i am finding other sources to upload it (note google video upload isnt working either for some reason)
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Superduperlad
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 08/18/2007 : 21:27:31
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Originally posted by stormbreaker
pretty good vids. are we ever gonna get ps3 videos?
Well, most of us on here don't have a PS3. You can post some Game Play videoes if you wanted to. But we will be posting Game Trailers in the Near Future
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stormbreaker
Arcade Junkie
USA
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Posted - 08/19/2007 : 22:23:04
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doesnt azrail have one?
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