I live in the heart of Canada aka "The Great White North" with a Central Standard Time-Zone tick-tocking away. At around 9pm last night, the iTunes store was updated with Sonic The Hedgehog 4. I about spilled my crunk juice in excitement as I preceded to download Sonic's latest 2-D adventure, 15 years in the making.
Well it wasn't really 15 years in the making, it just sounds so cool to say that. It's like the advertising for Jurassic Park. "An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making!" As sweet as it sounded, the marketing slogan started to sound really stupid after away.
I'm off topic, back to SONIC!
Quick impressions. There are 4 zones available with 3 sub-levels available and a boss battle at the end. So you have access to 24 stages of game play. Plus, apparently there are 2 exclusive, iPod Touch/iPhone levels which I believe are accessible when you complete the "main" game.
The game totally feels like playing "Sonic The Hedgehog 4". It plays, sounds and looks(in HD of course) like a natural progression from Sonic 3/Sonic & Knuckles. It's really damn good and I mean that.
The game is $9.99, which is a premium downloadable price on iTunes. Is it worth it? Hell yeah! It's great stuff! I feel although future installments, which nobody knows how many there will be, will cost less. We're just paying a premium for the introductory package. I expect Episode II to be priced around $6.99. The same ideology can also be applied to the console editions which are retailing at $14.99. I could see their future installments costing around $9.99.
I am having a blast with the title. It really is a true sequel to the classic Genesis/Mega Drive titles and I'm pumped up for future episodes. I expect 2 more, a trilogy of Sonic The Hedgehog 4 would be awesome! The number 3 has a nice "ring" to it.
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