SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2006)

PS3/XBOX 360, 2006

This 15th-anniversary game is an unfortunate low point in the series. Sonic continues the 3D platforming style of Sonic Adventure, Shadow gets the gunplay and vehicle usage of his own spin-off game, and new boy Silver is a slow character who uses telekinesis to manipulate objects. Even if the game didn’t feature an ill-advised romance between Sonic and the human princess Elise, its technical problems are so numerous and severe as to strip away any fun the game may have been able to offer.