THE GOOD:- Eye-bleedingly fast!
- Revolutionary new "Team" system
- Dazzling visuals
- Massive, mind-boggling scale
- A proper story with authenticity
- Easy to control
- Punchy special moves and combat attacks
- Nice enough soundtrack
- That Sonic feel
- What you dreamed Sonic would be like in the 21st Century!
- Wonderful multiplayer system
- The Casino Stage has to be played to be believed
THE BAD:
- Annoyingly simple and lengthy tutorial (a minor niggle)
- Can get frustrating when you keep dying in the same place (but never painfully so)
SUMMARY:
Sonic Team really are the Gods of the gaming industry. When they released the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" games on the SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis to you Yanks), they stuck to a winning combination that secured their place in gaming history: speed, rings, speed, cool, speed, a Casino-based mission, speed and speed... oh, and bouncing...