Sonic Forces

 Xbox One
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6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 274 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 162 out of 274
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 274
  3. Negative: 63 out of 274
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  1. PedroLamar
    Aug 14, 2023
    1
    Horroroso, medonho, esse sim é o jogo mais fudido e preguiçoso da série principal do Sonic, a unica salvação nesse jogo é o Sonic classico mas de resto, é totalmente dispensável, nem deveria ter sido lançado, você vai basicamente correr pra frente o jogo inteiro de forma linear , fases curtas e broxas, a gameplay com o avatar é um saco e que ideia merda por sinal.
  2. Megasss
    Jul 6, 2023
    10
    I do not care what anyone says about this game, I love it. I can't tell why, but its just satisfying to play, the fact there are 30 levels is amazing (33 if you count dlc), you barely go through the same levels.

    My only complain is that there are way too many automatic sections, I'm not talking about ingame events/cutscenes mid level, but like the loop de loop ones, where you dont have    I do not care what anyone says about this game, I love it. I can't tell why, but its just satisfying to play, the fact there are 30 levels is amazing (33 if you count dlc), you barely go through the same levels.

    My only complain is that there are way too many automatic sections, I'm not talking about ingame events/cutscenes mid level, but like the loop de loop ones, where you dont have to press anything for 2 secs. It is annoying but thats about it
    All Sonic games are already automated to death so it doesnt really matter.
    Classic sonic's physics are not THAT bad, although the speed limit is annoying

    Im still giving this game a 10 because of its vibe.    … Expand
  3. Myakudoyoru
    Jun 9, 2023
    9
    This is my reviewer as someone who speedruns this game. This game has so many ways to be broken up with skill, and the 2D sections are actually great fun on casual and intense runs. I appreciate that Sonic keeps all of his momentum while jumping, which is something shamefully removed in Sonic Frontiers.
  4. Umjogador
    Jun 3, 2023
    1
    Really amazing game in almost every detail, fun and dynamic gameplay, creative levels and bosses, several and several customization options for your created avatar, interesting story, good soundtrack, now let's get to the negatives; Extremely short gameplay, you finish a level in less than 20 seconds. Game totally in English without subtitles in Portuguese for Brazilians, SEGA knows thatReally amazing game in almost every detail, fun and dynamic gameplay, creative levels and bosses, several and several customization options for your created avatar, interesting story, good soundtrack, now let's get to the negatives; Extremely short gameplay, you finish a level in less than 20 seconds. Game totally in English without subtitles in Portuguese for Brazilians, SEGA knows that the audience here in Brazil is huge and yet insists on ignoring us, average graphic and no optimization for the Xbox Series S.Unfortunately the grade will be bad… Expand
  5. Sonica
    May 9, 2023
    0
    It's really very bad game, wtf with level design? It's too short and very bad with stupid stroy
  6. Eny2505
    Apr 23, 2023
    6
    One of the games i used to love but it kinda sucks now. Its too boring and way too short to deserve a higher score. They tried to hard here to throw as many gimmicks in as possible but that also ruined it
  7. Ndijcyhf
    Dec 6, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  8. Dlcyes
    Nov 30, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  9. Memomono
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  10. SonicUndergroun
    Nov 20, 2022
    10
    i would **** sonic's tiny little **** holy **** sonic is so hot i would **** him if he was real holy ****ing **** i would pump a fat load inside of him
  11. Shoko34
    Nov 19, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  12. NBAMaccabi
    Nov 18, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  13. StarCraftFilms
    Nov 18, 2022
    10
    Best Sonic game ever!
    Thank you SEGA for creating this masterpiece! 10/10 MUST PLAY for everyone!
  14. KrillerBomb
    Nov 15, 2022
    10
    It's not as good as Sonic Frontiers in any way, but I still think it's okay.
  15. JacobDelany225
    Nov 9, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sonic Forces Is a boring game that while not unreedemable It Is still In my opinion one of Sonics Worst outings. 1st with the positive. The graphics and character animations are pretty good. The music Is pretty good. Some levels like Egg Gate and The Custom Hero Capital City are quite good along with the tag team levels. Voice acting Is quite good and messing around In the Custom hero Customisation Is fun. With that out of the way let's go Into why I don't like this game. The story and dialouge Is complete dumpster fire with a lot of miss potiental especially with the new villian Infinite who Is given such a pathetic back story In a pretty useless Dlc pack. There's so much stupid moments from claiming Sonic Is tortured for months but when you see him he Is completly fine. Classic Sonic being there all cause of marketing since 2011s Sonic Generations was a hit. Many things In the story just happen off screen and are only explained during text on a black screen. Finally Tails Is so stupid In this game. The moment where they say "He's gone insane" when he clearly Isin't and then got scared by Chaos 0 made me want to throw my controller at my screen. Infinite Is a weak villian which sucks since the marketing and his design made him look so cool but In the game he Is just so terrible. His motivation for being a villian was because Shadow called Him childish names. I am not jokeing It Is as sad as It sounds. Enough about the dreadful story let's talk about the gameplay. Theres 3 type of gameplay styles. 1st Mordern Sonic. What The Hell did they do to him? When he runs It's so off because unlike previous games like Colours Unleashed and Generations he doesen't slowly bulid up to the full speed but Instead after 2 seconds of moving he will blast off. This feels so unatural and especially doesen't help where your In a game with boringly designed levels. 2nd Custom Hero. Probably the best of the 3 but still not great. The wispon weapons are a cool Idea and sometimes can be fun in the levels but sadly ruined by again levels that are super boring. Could of been a great Idea If the levels were fun. And finally Classic Sonic. NOPE. That's all I need to say. Also his level music Is trash. That green hill level makes my ears bleed with that music. As I mentioned previous there are positives with this game but overall Sonic Forces was a complete disapointment from jank controls to a terrible story with boring levels and tons of miss potiential. I ocasionally go back to speed run the ocasional Mordern Sonic level but thats It. Do not recommend. 4/10… Expand
  16. Ixss-805
    Sep 14, 2022
    4
    (Opinión rehecha abajo)
    Es un buen juego y sega hizo buen trabajo. No es una revolución, mas bien es un juego para mantener vivo al personaje por que da para mas. La jugabilidad esta bien hasta cierto punto, sonic moderno tuvo sus típicas fases frenéticas y de implemento bien la nueva jugabilidad del avatar que aparte tenia una personalización infinita y para todos los gustos, el único    (Opinión rehecha abajo)
    Es un buen juego y sega hizo buen trabajo. No es una revolución, mas bien es un juego para mantener vivo al personaje por que da para mas. La jugabilidad esta bien hasta cierto punto, sonic moderno tuvo sus típicas fases frenéticas y de implemento bien la nueva jugabilidad del avatar que aparte tenia una personalización infinita y para todos los gustos, el único que fue en declive fue el de Classic sonic que “cojeaba” en aspectos como su velocidad que sentía a veces que se frenaba y en el spin dash que era lo que me gustaba del del generations, eso si implementaron el drop dash que podía mas o menos fácilmente eclipsar lo demás.
    En general me gusto la historia, no era un sonic adventure 2 obviamente pero mejor que los últimos juegos después de unleashed. Eso si tenia huecos argumentales y algún que otro fallo de lo que podía ser la historia como que : “por que silver aparece en la resistencia así de la nada” o, el poco o nulo protagonismo de Chaos. Lo otro bueno son la participación constante en la historia de los amigos de Sonic , excepto de tails y Classic sonic. Lo otro bueno son los niveles, que en general todos me gusto mucho el diseño con una calidad grafica bastante buena para ser una portátil donde también los 920 p no se notan, aparte opino que me impresiono como sega logro hacer que el control del personaje sea como de 60 fps a pesar de que el juego valla a 30fps .Lo ultimo malo seria que los jefes son fáciles y un poco igual los niveles que de ves en cuando te cuesta sacar una S.
    Nota 10/10

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    5 años han pasado, no solo he logrado un juicio critico completamente superior a esa época si no que, incluso en aquel tiempo sabia en mi interior que estaba siendo benévolo con sonic, por que honestamente en aquel tiempo también me sentí decepcionado, pero nunca me pareció justo el trato que estaba recibiendo sonic y por eso decidí defenderlo. Aun así y aunque siga defendiéndolo en muchos sentidos, creo que debo ser justo con este juego y exponer mi nueva perspectiva critica.

    Evidentemente era un juego con el propósito de mantener al sonic moderno "vivo" en el mercado, uno completamente mediocre y que es hasta un poco triste.
    El diseño de niveles de sonic moderno se vio limitado a pasillos con apenas una que otra ruta diferente que al final vuelve al mismo camino rápidamente, no se recompensa en casi ningún sentido el esfuerzo por querer encontrar mejores formas de pasar el nivel, sobre todo por que hagas lo que hagas o como quieras hacerlo podrás obtener una S super fácilmente. El personaje es super estático y el homing attack es mucho peor utilizado en el diseño del nivel, sin decir que se siente mas torpe, lo demás lo típico, todo muy automatizado, super corto y con físicas limitadas.

    Nuestro personaje tiene un customize bastante pobre, personalmente no exijo mucho en un customizador y aun así sentí que todo era super simple. El diseño de niveles del personaje esta OK, realmente no es que me haya impactado ningún nivel y en realidad no soy el mayor fan de los wisp ni de cerca, pero si admito es algo que diversifica mucho la manera en que puedas pasarte los niveles, y los con Sonic en general estaban bn.

    Classic sonic sigue siendo medianamente disfrutable, pero su control y físicas fue contundentemente empeorado con respeto a generations, a veces tiene un diseño agradable, a veces es completamente olvidable.

    La historia es de lo peor de todo sonic, Ken Pontac creo que ha sido el escritor desde Colors y es de lo mas reprochable que ha tenido Sonic desde que existe, colors si bien tiene un desarrollo super infantil y con un sonic simplificado a solo bromas, no se tomaba en serio y el contexto seguía siendo un poco interesante, en Generations la historia es una justificación básica sin relevancia, Lost World fue una cosa rara, pero en Sonic Forces la historia se pasa de pretenciosa, intentado tomarse en serio varias veces, con personajes que están absolutamente infantilizados. Un montón de fanservice , ya sea los villanos, los secundarios, sonic clasico o tails, todos tienen un impacto casi nulo en lo que pasa y solo son justificados por una "guerra" de la que ni sabemos de como se llego ahí, y creando incongruencias completas con algunos como silver o Knuckles (como casi siempre). Aparte, ¿y las esmeraldas? ¿No era un momento obvio para ocuparlas o buscarlas?. Y bueno infinite es un villano planísimo y "edgy".

    Lo demás, apartado grafico decente, visual bastante bueno, música que incluso siendo obviamente mainstream la considero bastante buena (No la mejor de un Sonic ni de cerca), y pues todo al final para un cierre fácil y con un mensaje que queda super intrascendente y tiempo de juego mínimo, que ni si quiera el precio reducido justifica.
    Para mi de los peores juegos de Sonic, prefiero 06. 4/10    … Expand
  17. SonicFan20
    Sep 6, 2022
    4
    The Story Is Garbage,Terrible Writing All The Characters Control WAY To Stiff Its Press X To Win. Don't Buy It Its Garbo I'm Not Even Gonna Go In Depth Its Boring And If Your Gonna Play It Get The Xbox Series Version Because It Has 4K 60FPS. Oh And The Graphics Are Not Better Than Sonic Unleashed IN 2008!. Its Very Slow And Bad The Only Good Is That It Made Sega Learn What To Not Do AndThe Story Is Garbage,Terrible Writing All The Characters Control WAY To Stiff Its Press X To Win. Don't Buy It Its Garbo I'm Not Even Gonna Go In Depth Its Boring And If Your Gonna Play It Get The Xbox Series Version Because It Has 4K 60FPS. Oh And The Graphics Are Not Better Than Sonic Unleashed IN 2008!. Its Very Slow And Bad The Only Good Is That It Made Sega Learn What To Not Do And Mabey Frontiers Is Good, and that The Pre Release GCI Was Alright. if i Ever Play It Again its For Achievements Or If I'm Playing All The Boost Games. i give it a 4 Because It Dosen't Even Deserve To Be The Worst Game I Rate its That Bad.… Expand
  18. DianeTheGamer
    Jun 29, 2022
    0
    Not only the worst sonic game I've ever played but the worst game I've ever played. I wouldn't give this game to my worst enemy. Unfinished levels, controls are horrible, the music isn't even good, level layouts bad, tried charging you extra money for super sonic. Just skip this, it's horrible. Horrible writing as well.
  19. OmxgaAwesome
    Apr 8, 2022
    7
    This game was disappointing, mainly because the Avatar was such a good idea but it was portrayed badly. I beat this game in 12 hours because of how short this game is. Its not a bad game, its just mediocre.
  20. Rayman3fan
    Mar 12, 2022
    9
    Sonic Forces great game..........................................................
  21. PhaseFunnyGuy
    Feb 24, 2022
    1
    This is my least favourite game of all time. i want every copy of this game gathered together into one big pile and in the middle of that pile is a hydro-bomb and then detonated and then I want the remaining atoms of the pile pissed on
  22. gamerdragon1
    Jan 21, 2022
    10
    Amazing Game, a top tier game, the story incredible, gameplay AMAZING, WHOEVER SAY'S THIS GAME IS LIKE SONIC 06, IS WAY OF BASE, HERE ARE THINGS THAT CLASSIFY A GAME GAME BEING LIKE SONIC O6!!!!!!
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    RUSHED |X|
    GLITCHES (barley any)
    Fun to break (yes)
    BAD [NO]
  23. XYZFirestar
    Jan 13, 2022
    1
    Sonic Forces is a game where there is pure laziness and underwhelming stuff that'll bore you. The only good part of it is most of the soundtrack for Forces, which a very large few of the songs are my favorites while the rest of the OST just sounds awful. The level design is VERY underwhelming at best, and you just go straight. If you have the patience for that, I salute you. The story isSonic Forces is a game where there is pure laziness and underwhelming stuff that'll bore you. The only good part of it is most of the soundtrack for Forces, which a very large few of the songs are my favorites while the rest of the OST just sounds awful. The level design is VERY underwhelming at best, and you just go straight. If you have the patience for that, I salute you. The story is really garbage with writers that are trying to be as kid-friendly as possible. The new villain, Infinite, just feels like a poor excuse of a villain that REALLY shouldn't have happened in the first place. The final boss is copy-and-paste from Sonic Colors, and Classic Sonic is the worst part of the game, PERIOD. Classic Sonic's physics are as terrible as Sonic 4's physics, do not play as Classic Sonic after you beat this game.… Expand
  24. multiplat_gamer
    Dec 18, 2021
    1
    Sonic Forces has levels that are either shallow, gimmicky and boring or just broken, with just a few exceptions in the whole game. Sonic 3D controls are correct but incomplete, lacking Drift and Air Dash. Sonic 2D controls are decent. Avatar's controls are a mess, the character goes from walking to dashing in a second, even if you slightly press the stick and this results in cheap deathsSonic Forces has levels that are either shallow, gimmicky and boring or just broken, with just a few exceptions in the whole game. Sonic 3D controls are correct but incomplete, lacking Drift and Air Dash. Sonic 2D controls are decent. Avatar's controls are a mess, the character goes from walking to dashing in a second, even if you slightly press the stick and this results in cheap deaths because of the levels that don't fit in this control scheme because you have to walk longer than a second before jumping and just before jumping you accidentally dash and fall off.

    The first levels of Sonic Forces are disappointing and the last levels are infuriating. Two boss battles are fine and creative (Zavok and Mystic Jungle Infinite), two of the three battles against Infinite are confusing and the final battle is challenging in the wrong way. The music and presentation is the best that the game has to offer, since the story relies too heavily on negative feelings and death in a serious way instead of cartoony and comical like before. The first time you play the game you'll get tons of notices with useless cosmetics for your avatar. This is not the worst Sonic game ever but it's certainly the most disappointing. If Sonic Generations is 10/10, this is 1/10.    … Expand
  25. JACOBJAKE
    Nov 26, 2021
    10
  26. OggaBogga
    Nov 16, 2021
    10
    Incrível game muito bom. Somente as fases do sonic classico não são agradáveis
  27. Radical2002
    Nov 10, 2021
    7
    Sonic Forces is a game that has a large amount of brilliant and ambitious ideas, but the lack of manpower and budget made it stop a far distance away from the finish line.

    I've played this game on four platforms, Switch, PS4, PC and recently Xbox Series S. The game graphicly looks really good, Hedgehog Engine 2's debut wasn't lacklustre, and while taking up too much of the development    Sonic Forces is a game that has a large amount of brilliant and ambitious ideas, but the lack of manpower and budget made it stop a far distance away from the finish line.

    I've played this game on four platforms, Switch, PS4, PC and recently Xbox Series S. The game graphicly looks really good, Hedgehog Engine 2's debut wasn't lacklustre, and while taking up too much of the development time, it's recent use really shows it's future potential.

    The story is admirable. Since the release of Sonic Colours, Sonic games never really focused much on story, with the closest being the side series of Sonic Boom, but Forces reintroduces the expanded cast, includes a new villain, and a more serious story, but it falls flat.

    The three gameplay styles go from good to meh, it goes Modern, Avatar and Classic. Sonic is fun, Avatar is fun, Classic is meh.

    I wish I could go more in-depth, and I'd suggest it, but only if it's on sale or second hand.    … Expand
  28. JPC96
    Sep 3, 2021
    0
    Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cream, Rouge, Omega, Vector, Espio and Charmy are not playable characters.
  29. Knight678
    Jul 22, 2021
    4
    The Reason why i put a 4 is because of Classic Sonic,Faded Hills Ost,Horrible Story and There's no Ambition whatsoever
  30. FabioLV
    Jun 8, 2021
    8
    Graficos bons , musicas boas, jogabilidade foi simplificada retirando alguns movimentos o que é uma pena pra valorizar o gameplayer e fases muito curtas.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jan 5, 2018
    50
    It's business as usual for dear old Sonic. Which isn't necessarily a very good thing. [Jan 2018, p.82]
  2. Xbox Tavern
    Dec 16, 2017
    81
    For the first time in years, I actually enjoyed and looked forward to going back to a Sonic game and will continue to hunt those red star rings for a while yet. But the main USP of the avatars let the side down. I really hope Sonic Team continue with the duel Sonic crossover games as they seem to be providing them with their best output in years.
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  3. New Game Network
    Dec 5, 2017
    59
    Sonic Forces is a mixed bag, but the bad outweighs the good. Its few bright spots - mostly in the form of classic Sonic - get dimmed by the muddled mess of the weaker elements, and the lack of content doesn't help. The game's biggest achievement is the reminder of old school Sonic's superior gameplay.
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