(continued from previous page) ...the franchise is the 2-player Tag or Battle modes. However, these modes are only good on paper since actually playing them is as bad as playing the single player.

Unfortunately Sonic didn’t turn out to well for his next-gen debut. Die-hards may enjoy the title from time to time but even they would find some disappointment. It just seems that Sonic Team spent all of their time adding new features rather than working on the basics of gameplay. There are some good ideas with the multiplayer modes and all of the different playable characters but the fact that the gameplay is so bad means most of the good features in the game go unnoticed. We can only hope that the next Sonic game will be something well worth a purchase.