for all the bitching people do about 06, it still felt like the adventure style though. And it HAD potential. too bad.
To be fair, I agree, the game has far amounts of potential that could have made the game easily on of the best sonic games,
-the good-
Graphics and Music are really top notch, it has my favorite appearance of egg-man
Story..... Well, that's a pretty bad one, but the concept of time travel referencing sonic CD was really cool
No change of character in characters, except that weird spontaneous romance, which lead to something really dumb
Variation of Sonic, Shadow and Silver was very good, when you were playing one character you didn't feel like you were playing the others.
the events where you play as other characters were awesome too
Lastly, the game felt like the true SA2 since it behaved more like SA.
a Day/night engine was in the game, would have been awesome to see it in action
The memphalis Plot was great!
-the bad-
Sadly, the Day/night transitions weren't present
The Load times Rival that of Duke Nukem Forever
The Physics are broken in most areas
Control, Something you barely or do not have most of the time
the Amigo sections were wierd and yet again, control.
Purchasing upgrades is a real drag when you only resorted to play the last level over and over
The build up and Sonic Dying and ressurection is a Big-lipped Aligator moment
The Navigation through Fields could have used a compass or marker
the "romance" is forced apon the player even when they have a "choice"
the writing is Garbage "That Tornado is carrying a Car!"
even when you have the adventure field, you're stil pretty much getting the Linear treatment.
oh yeah, Simple talking of the NPC's requires at least 5 mins of loading time!
I can get over the stupid story and the Ridiculous writing, but this game should have been released in 07, it would have been one of the best sonic games ever....
oh yeah, did you know Sonic 06 was originally developed to be Silver only, but Sega decided that adding sonic was a great idea, this explains why Silver's Stages are pretty damn solid as Shadow's are confusing at times and Sonic's get those broken high-speed sections.
Overall, I file this beside FFXIII, has everything to make the next best thing, and the evidence shows it, some somewhere everything fell apart...