Sonic Games

The bad Dr. Robotnik wants to collect the Chaos Emeralds, and the one thing that's stopping him is Sonic the Hedgehog. Go through 14 levels for power-ups, shortcuts, and entrances to hidden stages. Sonic now has a Blast Attack that will help him defeat Robotnik's minions. Environmental effects, like rain and fog, add new gameplay elements. Save the Flickies and collect the Chaos Emeralds before Robotnik does in Sonic 3D Blast.

Pros:
+ Innovative Graphics
+ Excellent Level Background Music

Cons:
- Pixellated Characters
- Same Old Mediocre SFX
- Losing Speed

The game is built on the slant, the most often-used directions of movement will are northwest, northeast, southwest and southeast - the 45 degree angles. And the old Genesis D-Pad is not made with this movments kept in mind; hence getting Sonic moving in the direction you wanted him to go was uncomfortable at best. Pressing two edges at once, trying to input the implied direction in the middle. It could be a hassle.

The Sonic 3D Blast levels are architected in a different manner than those found in the earlier SONIC THE HEDGEHOG GAMES, as the main aim here is not to flash through to the goal as fast as you can. Instead, your mission is to free flocks of Flickies by defeating enemies, then take them to the nearest floating golden ring. There, the Flickies activate their teleportation abilities and open the path for sonic to step in and fly to next part of the level, then rinse and repeat. It's a constant loop of saving Flickies, cashing them in, saving more Flickies.

And that's where the problems really begin for Sonic 3D Blast - because even if you're cool with the control or feel the VC's support of the Classic Controller makes that a non-issue, you can't deny that the game's core design is repetitive and, ultimately, kind of bland. The sense of speed and intense action that Sonic's name was built on is absent here, replaced by, essentially, a looping, lazy fetch quest.

It wouldn't be so bad if Sonic felt more like Sonic, but he doesn't really. Sonic 3D Blast considered being one of the under-rated videogames for the Genesis. Personally thinking I really don't know why is this so.

The game has some amazing 3D graphics and sound. The only thing that is keeping away the game to reach the top spot is the introduction of mysterious birds, Flickies. These birds can travel through dimensions. In order to complete the stages one needs to kill every robot, get the flickies you freed and get on to a giant floating ring, which is against the basic theme of game play "on a flash" of the former SONIC GAMES released. But, none the less, it still is a very entertaining game if you are thinking of buying it.

The game comes power packed with new features like 14 levels, Variety of power-ups, Hidden bonus, levels, new environmental effects, New Blast Attack.