The physics engine is problematic at best and straight-up broken at worst.
If you’ve ever watched a gameplay video of this game, then you know how terrible this turned out. The team was under a tight schedule, so they were forced to rush stuff, and boy , it shows. This meant that there was absolutely no time to put any level of real effort into the game. Insisting that the game much be ready for the holiday season 2006 to line up with both the release of the PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 and Sonic’s 15th anniversary. The problems still could’ve been avoided if those in charge had the wherewithal to push the game’s release date back. Then SEGA management stepped in and remedied the problem by…splitting the development team in half in order to work on yet another Sonic game for the Wii. Then, in early 2006, the head of the team resigned to form his own company, leaving a significant role in the team unfilled.
For one thing, the team were working with an engine they hadn’t used up until that point, so there was still a learning curve amongst the development team. There are plenty of reasons behind the mess that this game turned out to be. I honestly would’ve loved to kick this list off with a classic, controversial opinion, but there’s just no way I could put anything else in last place and still be able to look at myself in the mirror. More commonly referred to as ‘Sonic 06’, this is a game referred to by many as ‘the worst game ever made’ and…I can’t say I disagree with them.
So…let’s start off with the shit, shall we? 11 – Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) So if you want to argue about that, be my guest, but I didn’t want to make this article any longer. For example, I’m not including the ‘storybook’ games (Sonic and the Black Knight & Sonic and the Secret Rings) because, for one, I’ve never actually played them, and two, from what I’ve seen they play very differently to every other game on this list. What I’m counting as ‘main series’ could be a bit subjective. I’ve always believed that Sonic works far better in 2D than it ever has in 3D, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some wonderful games that have 3D platforming as their core gameplay. Why am I bringing this up? Because most of them fall under the ‘3D platforming’ genre, which is what I’m going to be talking about today. Sonic Mania’s critical success went some way to undo that damage, but this is a franchise with some genuinely terrible games under its belt that will never be forgotten. The series has gone through more than one period of critical slumps, and it’s unfortunately caused the Sonic franchise to become somewhat of a red-headed step-child in the gaming sphere. Being a Sonic fan can be tough sometimes.
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