I remember seeing this game's box art as a kid and desperately wanting it. The mere thought of there being a Sonic game I hadn't played drove me nuts. Sure, it's technically not a Sonic game, but I didn't care, I just saw him on the box and knew I had to have this, but thankfully my mom was smart and never got me this. Playing it now? It's mehhhhh. It's a mediocre minigame collection controlled with the EyeToy, which is literally just a webcam, so this plays like Kinnect shovelware, or maybe something like WarioWare Snapped. I mean, it functions, but there's literally no point to playing this over any other minigame collection in existence
The eye toy is the closest we'll ever get to flying cars
Actual potato camera
I still have a crush on Ulala
A minigame compilation for the PlayStation EyeToy, which was a webcam add-on for the PlayStation 2. It features multiple Sega characters from franchises like Super Monkey Ball, Crazy Taxi and Nights, but this review is for the Sonic portion.
The Sonic minigame is Sonic running down a tunnel collecting rings and emeralds, a bit like the special stages from Sonic Heroes. you move your hand around the circle and Sonic will move over to there. Spiked balls will turn up to get in your way and the goal is to collect the most rings. If you collect all seven chaos emeralds in the stage, you will become Super Sonic and be invincible.
There are six difficulties – once you beat Sonic’s three difficulties you can complete more difficult version as Shadow.
There’s also a little Tamagochi-like chao garden, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get my chao to hatch.
Sega Superstars was an interesting novelty when it got released, but motion gaming has changed so much since this came out. At least this was Sonic’s only attempt at a camera-based control (it was, right? right?)
The Sonic minigame is Sonic running down a tunnel collecting rings and emeralds, a bit like the special stages from Sonic Heroes. you move your hand around the circle and Sonic will move over to there. Spiked balls will turn up to get in your way and the goal is to collect the most rings. If you collect all seven chaos emeralds in the stage, you will become Super Sonic and be invincible.
There are six difficulties – once you beat Sonic’s three difficulties you can complete more difficult version as Shadow.
There’s also a little Tamagochi-like chao garden, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get my chao to hatch.
Sega Superstars was an interesting novelty when it got released, but motion gaming has changed so much since this came out. At least this was Sonic’s only attempt at a camera-based control (it was, right? right?)