Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2772 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2005-11-18
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Dimensions: 7.48" h x .79" w x 5.51" l,

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Shadow the Hedgehog is not necessarily the game you’d expect Sega to make after the stunning success of games such as Sonic Heroes and Sonic Mega Collection. Although it looks and plays fairly similarly to the former, albeit with only the one character at a time, it features anti-hero Shadow who instead of offing bad guys with a simple jump on their head is packing what looks suspiciously like a high calibre Desert Eagle pistol.

The image of a Sonic the Hedgehog lookalike using such a realistic piece of hardware is an oddly disturbing one and rather sours initial moments with the game. Luckily though the rest of the game reveals itself to be a more traditionally wholesome title as Shadow runs, jumps and err... shoots his way through levels.

In a nod to games such as Prince of Persia, Shadow can also manipulate time to his advantage and unleash the explosive "Chaos Blast" move. He can also make use of a variety of different vehicles including motorcycles, jeeps and alien spacecraft and pick up and use handy objects like streetlamps as weapons.

The choice of whether to turn to evil during the course of the game seems a bit out of a place for a Sonic game, although its not clear exactly how evil the game actually allows you to get. It’s not exactly GTA: Emerald City but it’s still rather odd to see such an iconic series take such an unwarranted trip to the Dark Side. -- Harrison Dent

This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game; features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the finished game.

Customer Reviews

The Dark World Of Sonic
Shadow the Hedgehog stars the mysterious character from Sonic Adventure 2, namely Shadow the Hedgehog.
Shadow is trying to find out about his past, when he gets caught in the middle of a fight between Black Arms (an alien army) and G.U.N (Earth's military). Throughout the game, you can make choices to decide which side you want to join up with, or you can just ignore it all. You'll learn different things about Shadow's past depending on what path you take.

A path through this game is six stages long followed by a final boss fight. There is, however, a grand total of 326 different paths you can take in the game, over 20 huge levels to explore, and 10 different endings to see. You can re-play the levels you have finnished in the Library menu in the game, and see wich paths you have taken.

Something new in this game is the option to use guns. I say option, because for the most part, you don't have to use guns to complete the game. If you prefer, you can just use the Homing Attack on an enemy instead, but compared to some of the weapons this is a very weak attack.

Something else since Sonic Heroes is the Hero and Dark bars at the top of the screen. Whenever you do something good (killing an alien, healing a soldier), a little bit of the Hero bar is filled, and whenever you do something bad (killing a soldier, blowing stuff up), a little bit of the Dark bar is filled. When either of these bars are filled, you become Hero or Dark Shadow, respectively. As Hero/Dark Shadow, you are invincible, have unlimited ammo, and can use a special move depending which bar is filled. Chaos Control (Hero) warps you through the stage super fast(but you can skip some important stuff), and Chaos Blast (Dark) destroys or deals heavy damage to everything near Shadow.
(When you have been given the Dark & Hero missions in a level, press the start button to decide which character you will follow on that level.)

I think the game has gotten too bad reviews from both the press, and gamers that didnt give this a chance to grow on them.
Shadow The Hedgehog may have the bottomless pits, and the crazy camera from Heroes. But its great path system gives you a totally new experience everytime you finnish it, and the levels is different whenever you feel evil or good...-or just dont care.
I love it!

Not so fun but...good story to shadows past.
I like it mostly because of the story i found out more on how shadow was created and who was responsable for it etc.
You really need to think before you get this game and i mean think.
You must give this game a chance at all costs.
Firstly you will choose to work for yourself Normal work for Sonic and his friends Hero or work for Black DOOM! Dark each Route takes you to a different story to shadows path and will take you to different levels depending on the the missions you do during levels.
Also if you want to get this game SO BADLY but just cant do it and need help get the guide(Recommended) i used it because it was abit hard.
With the Routes and all.
But if you are a sonic fan and Played EVERY SONIC GAME and know all the tricks get this dont get this for your 1st 2nd 3rd sonic game you will hate it.

Shadow gets his own game, FINALLY!!!
Great game with an amazing variety of weapons, vehicles and areas. The fact that there are well over 300 storylines is pretty impressive on its' own, but with everything else as well, its' probably the best sonic game I've ever played on.

The music is great, and the cinematics are good, apart from one, where the sound came before it should have. The special cinematics(which have a less gamelike effect and a more detailed, kind of TV-style effect) are really impressive too.

There is a huge area of gameplay here, and the levels are quite large too. The only dissapointing thing is that the storylines are so short, one can be completed in under an hour if you're skilled enough!

All in all, Shadow The Hedgehog is an extremely amazing game, and if they make a sequel, I'm definitely going to get it, although it's rather unlikely that's going to happen, seeing as the end of the last story says........well, I'll leave you to find that out.