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Sonic the Hedgehog
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2006 video game by Sega
Game data
Metacritic 44- Released
- 2006-11-14
- User rating
- 2.50 / 5
- Genres
- Platformer
- Platforms
- Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Everyone 10+
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Game details · IGDB
Sonic the Hedgehog, commonly referred to as Sonic '06, is a 2006 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It was intended as a reboot of the Sonic franchise for seventh-generation video game consoles. Players control Sonic, Shadow, and the new character Silver as they seek to defeat Solaris, an ancient evil pursued by Doctor Eggman. Each character has his own campaign and abilities, and must complete levels, explore hub worlds and fight bosses to advance the story. In multiplayer modes, players can work cooperatively to collect Chaos Emeralds or race to the end of a level.
- Released
- 2006
- Genres
- Platform, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- Havok Physics
- Franchise
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Developer
- Sonic Team
- Publisher
- Sega
Key facts
- Developer
- Sonic Team
- Publisher
- Sega
- Director
- Shun Nakamura
- Producer
- Masahiro Kumono
- Designers
- Shun Nakamura Atsushi Kanno
- Programmers
- Yoshitaka Kawabata Makoto Suzuki
- Artist
- Akira Mikame
- Writers
- Kiyoko Yoshimura Shiro Maekawa
- Composers
- Hideaki Kobayashi Tomoya Ohtani Mariko Nanba Taihei Sato Takahito Eguchi
- Series
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Platforms
- Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
- Release
- November 14, 2006 Xbox 360 NA : November 14, 2006 EU / AU : November 24, 2006 JP : December 21, 2006 PlayStation 3 JP : December 21, 2006 NA : January 30, 2007 EU / AU : March 23, 2007
- Genres
- Platform , action-adventure
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Q122741
- Series
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Composer
- Tomoya Ohtani
- Developer
- Sonic Team
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Game engine
- Havok
- Distribution format
- Blu-ray Disc
- Official website
- www2.sega.com/gamesite/sonicnext/sonicnext_full/index.php#
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- Commons category
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)
- characters
- Dr. Eggman
- publication date
- 2007-09-24
- input device
- gamepad
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- title
- ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ
- social media followers
- 8510
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Encyclopedic overview
Sonic the Hedgehog, commonly referred to as Sonic '06, is a 2006 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It was intended as a reboot of the Sonic franchise for seventh-generation video game consoles. Players control Sonic, Shadow, and the new character Silver as they seek to defeat Solaris, an ancient evil pursued by Doctor Eggman. Each character has his own campaign and abilities, and must complete levels, explore hub worlds and fight bosses to advance the story. In multiplayer modes, players can work cooperatively to collect Chaos Emeralds or race to the end of a level.
The development began in early 2005, led by Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka. Sonic Team sought to create a game in the vein of superhero films such as Batman Begins (2005), hoping it would advance the series with a realistic tone and multiple gameplay styles. While it received praise from video game journalists during pre-release showings, problems developed after Naka resigned to form his own company, Prope, and the team split to work on the Wii game Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007). Sonic Team rushed the later stages of development, cutting numerous features and scrapping plans for ports to the Wii and Windows.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sonic the Hedgehog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.