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All teen and kid reviews for Sonic: Unleashed

Age
8
Average rating based on 21 kid and teen reviews:
  • 43% say there are positive messages
  • 38% say violence is an issue
  • 38% say there are positive role models
Teen, 15 years old
October 1, 2009
 
Average quality game, with the day levels being out of this world and the night levels being rather a chore to complete. Long cutscenes don't help.

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Kid, 13 years old
September 19, 2010
 
its so cool i played it

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Teen, 16 years old
November 23, 2010
 
night levels:ok day levels: awesome
during the day, sonic unleashed is a fun and exciting, rollercoaster like experience with the series exciting speed and trademark moves. At night though, sonic is the lumbering werehog. Although the werehog levels are actually not bad, there are to many and they take a long time. Its 70% werehog and 30% hedgehog when it should be the other way around,

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Teen, 14 years old
August 19, 2011
 
Good!
No violence in day stages. Much violence in night stages. Animated blood is shown. Night stage are horrible.

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Teen, 14 years old
May 28, 2009
 
I can't believe what happened to me...
I don't play games and stuff but my brother does. I saw him playing this game on his PS2 and I was highly into it. Now I have it installed to my PSP. I enjoy racing ...Really ....I think I am going too far as a girl in the game.

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Kid, 12 years old
April 21, 2010
 
Awesome game, but complicated controls
This game is awesome.I rented it and I loved it. It is very entertaining and never really gets boring.It is actually kinda violent but nothing that will affect your kids. The controls can get more complicated as they go along so you got to be very good with remembering, but really this game should be for kids 7 and up.

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Teen, 18 years old
September 5, 2009
 
Best Sonic game ever
Easy controls (during day only), good plot, realistic locations, occasional comedy from Eggman, and good examples of friendship.

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Teen, 17 years old
August 20, 2009
 
Way awesome game; some older themes
Violence: During the day, there isn't much violence. You simply jump on enemies. At night, you beat up "nightmare" enemies with fistfights. At the end, a being called Dark Gaia spills excessive amounts of green blood. Sexy Stuff: Some of the townspeople missions have mild flirting in them. Language: In a boss fight, Sonic the Werehog (Fanged Sonic) shouts "Geez!" Consumerism: It is the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Plus in the cut-scene "Opening" and "Dark Gaia Awakens", a SEGA Dreamcast is seen in the background. Bad Messages: Dr. Eggman's robot assistant occasionally insults Eggman. Eggman destroys the planet so he can make a theme park named after and glorifying him. Bad Role Models: If Eggman loses a fight, he whines and complains Easy to play: Daytime missions are rather easy to get through, but nighttime missions are more difficult, but with practice, they are easier to get through. Good Messages: At the end, John 15:13 is reinforced: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Good Role Models: Sonic and his friends fight day and night to save the world. Overall: Excellent gift for ANY Sonic fan. Recommended for 10+.

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Kid, 10 years old
August 21, 2010
 
Play before you juge!
You get bored after awhile but there's no scary parts don't just look at a pic of sonic glowing eyes and say: "aw , since this looks scary I don't want it"

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Teen, 16 years old
January 22, 2009
 
This game is sooooo boringgggggg
my little brother rented it and me and my sister both agree strongly that it is very slow. Also it is to easy i think the Sega company could have done a much better job.

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Teen, 15 years old
June 25, 2010
 
Fear the night.
The blue blur's first "real" 3D outing was back on the Dreamcast, known as Sonic Adventure. A little while later, Sonic Adventure 2 was released on the Dreamcast as well, but ever since then, the quality of 3D Sonic just went down and down. (SA and SA2 were both ported to the Gamecube - if you can find them at your local pawn shop, check them out) So, does Unleashed bring back the fun? Yes... kinda. The game is split into two different types of levels: Daytime levels, which are fast paced levels which are played as Sonic the Hedgehog, and nighttime levels, which are slow combat-focused platforming stages, played by Sonic the Werehog. The daytime levels are great: speed-of-light action and great stage design. Isn't that what Sonic is supposed to be? However, the same cannot be said for the nighttime levels, which is sad, because there's more Werehog stages and they take longer to complete. Gamers of all ages and experience will find the Werehog levels clunky and monotonous. Not to mention that you have to talk to people found in a hub world, but the only purpose it serves is length extension. Now for controls. For the Wii version, stupidly tacked-on motion controls just blow. Thank God that you can use a Classic Controller or a Gamecube controller to play, and it works just fine, but I still had some issues with the Werehog levels with unnecessary deaths. I then downloaded the 360 demo of the game, but the controls were just game-breaking. Sure, the 360/PS3 graphics are definitely prettier, but if I'm going to have this much trouble with it, it's not worth the time. Message to Sega about your upcoming title, Sonic Colors: Stop throwing in useless gimmicks and give what people want: A Sonic game that's just about Sonic... the Hedgehog.

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Teen, 15 years old
March 31, 2009
 
Not Violent, But Fast
This game isn't exactly violent, in fact the most violent I think I saw was explosions, but it goes at a pace that I think may be too fast for younger kids. It goes at a very fast pace and you need to act quickly in order to get stuff done. In a nutshell, don't play this game while you're sleeping!

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Kid, 12 years old
February 19, 2011
 
Don't get this for Wii
I love this game, but it's reallly hard on the Wii. There are some parts of the game when you have to walk across a very thin bars/pipes. On the 360 version you can controll it better, on the Wii it's hard because it goes to fast you can't really controll the speed when your walking on it. I'd get it for 360 for sure.

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Kid, 12 years old
October 7, 2011
 
Sonic gets some chipped claws
One of the worst games to hit the Xbox 360. Ever. The game runs surprisingly slow, and has you repeating the same kinds of battles over and over again. The game is repetitively difficult, and a waste of time, muscle, money, and talent. The worst aspect of Sonic's history ever since his games hit the iPhone. This game objectifies a good reason to fear the night, but also objectifies a good reason not to buy it.

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Teen, 15 years old
April 16, 2011
 
Not for anyone.
- Amy Rose gets sexually groped in this game. - The Werehog is known by the world wide web as a pedophile. - Message seems to be "KILL ALL RANDOM SH*T". Seriously. - Excessive violence, it seems to have worse violence than Team Fortress 2. - I felt insecure playing this game.

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Kid, 12 years old
February 25, 2011
 
the worst part about this game is the flying part. It took me like a month to beat.

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Teen, 17 years old
December 27, 2010
 
Get it for 360 or PS3 BUT NOT FOR Wii !!!!!
This game is ok I mean I do love sonic myself and the WEREHOG thing is pretty cool but when I got it for Wii I realized that there were fewer levels then when I saw the trailer on gamefly so I got it for 360 and I was like WHAT THE!!! THE ONE FOR 360 HAS MORE LEVELS THEN THE Wii ONE!!!!!!!! so if you want more levels for Sonic Unleshed get it for 360 or PS3.

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Kid, 10 years old
December 5, 2011
 
The semi to the best game
the game is good but kids got to know sonic before playing because if they don't they might get nightmares

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Kid, 13 years old
January 11, 2012
 
You'd be surprised that I don't hate the Werehog Levels... /:-(
Before getting this game on my Wii, I don't remember playing any other Sonic game. At first the Day Levels felt like I was playing one of those Portable Titles (Which is understandable because It was made by the same people, but I didn't know that then), only worse control. I also thought the Night Levels were somewhat of a drag. But now I think the Day Levels are an apsolute failure and the Night Levels are only fun with practice on the Wii. I returned it, and after a while, I got a PS3. ^.^ It was my Second game for it (first being the new Sonic game, Generations). The Day Stages are nothing. Seriously. I either fall into bottomless pits for doing what Sega wants me too or breeze through the dang level TOO EASILY!!! Seriously, Sega, this is not challenging. If you think I'll never S-Rank any Day level other then Apotos Act 2 you should've made them even harder. It is not hard to rinse and repeat each time until I get desired results. However, the Night Levels are the real game, and to this day I cannot get past Empire City (Night) because of it. And thus I give the PS3 levels the four stars above (The Wii only gets 2 for me). Sure, the night levels are Violent but you asked for it when you bought this game (Though you weren't expecting Dark Gaia's supposed *Shudders* "Death" Scene. In that case, you can always skip the cutscene by pressing the start button before and after Perfect Dark Gaia). Oh, and if you played past 3D Sonic games, follow those retuines accept the Werehog instead of Swearing, Teammates, or a Peach Rip-Off who doesn't belong in a Sonic Game

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Kid, 11 years old
March 16, 2011
 
Randomness
THIS GAME IS GONNA BE AWESOME! I can rip people to shreds, lazer breath monsters, punch monsters....err.....run around....ok not as fun as i thought. >_<

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