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Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)
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System(s): Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sonic Team
Genre: 3D Platformer

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Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that was made to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It was developed by the Sonic Team and directed by Shun Nakamura.

The game shares its name with two earlier video games, a manga, a television series, a comic book series and, of course, Sonic the Hedgehog himself. To disambiguate, the game has been called by a number of different aliases, including Sonic 2006, Sonic '06, Sonic 360 (even though it was not exclusive to the Xbox 360) and Sonic Next-Gen. Xbox Live and the PlayStation 3 XMB refer to it in all-caps as SONIC THE HEDGEHOG.

This is the second Sonic the Hedgehog game to get an E10+ rating by the ESRB, the first being Shadow the Hedgehog. Other content rating organizations agreed with similar ratings. The PEGI rating is 12+, while the CERO rating is A.

Gameplay

Single player

Although each character plays the same levels, each character's unique abilities allow him or her to get to different areas of each stage, and deny them from accessing certain items.

Gameplay is broken up into two gameplay styles, similar to Sonic Adventure. Action Stages are where the bulk of the gameplay takes place, whereas Town Stages are free-roaming locations where the player can talk to non-player characters and explore, as in Sonic Adventure's Adventure Fields. For each of the action stages in the respective stories, gold medals are obtainable by achieving high ranks in these stages.

There are a total of eleven stages. A ranking system exists for each of the levels and town missions, providing ranks calculated from score, rings and time remaining. The highest rank is S Rank, followed by A Rank, down to the lowest, D.

Several downloadable extensions have been released that add features to single-player gameplay. These include Very Hard mode, a more difficult version of the game; Boss Attack modes, which allow a playable character to engage in continuous battles with all of the game's bosses; and Team Attack Amigo mode, which allows players to play through the entirety of the game as amigo characters.[1]

The PS3 version doesn't have the upgrade chips that are in the 360 version.

Multiplayer

Sonic the Hedgehog features two styles of multiplayer game play that offer two player action.

The first mode, Tag Mode, is a co-op type of play between Sonic, Silver and Shadow. Two players, each one controlling a character, must work together to clear levels and collect Chaos Emeralds. In this mode, lives are shared. The second game style available is Battle Mode. Battle mode pits two players against each other and has them race to a goal in the selected level.

The previously rumored mini-games that were to allow up to four players to play simultaneously/alternately (Quiz, Race and a few others) seem to be missing in the final release of the game. [2]

Manual

Levels

Production Credits

Staff

Director: Shun Nakamura
Producer: Masahiro Kumono
Chief Game Designers:Shun Nakamura, Atsushi Kanno
Game Designers: Takao Hirabayashi, Masayuki Inoue, Takako Nagase, Makoto Hirata, Daisuke Shimizu, Hiroshi Miyamoto
Chief Programmers: Yoshitaka Kawabata, Makoto Suzuki
Programmers: Ryuichi Ishiguro, Takuma Komatsu, Tsutomu Matsuo, Yoshihiko Toyoshima, Koji Ogino, Yuichi Matsuoka, Kentarou Tomii, Naoko Shimura, Tomoatsu Imai, Yosuke Yamazaki, Hiromasa Kaneko, Takateru Ohyama, Ryouhei Yamada, Maki Nishimori, Yusuke Ichiyama, Daigo Matsuura, Hiroshi Iwasaki
Chief Artist: Akira Mikame
Character Artists: Yoshinari Amaike, Shinkichi Tanahashi, Akio Sakai, Takashi Iida, Masao Tsunoda, Sho Kunieda, Yuka Matsumoto
Enemy Artists: Wataru Watanabe, Masatoshi Yasumura
Motion Artists: Kentaro Niina, Motomu Hayashi, Tomoaki Yuyama, Hiroaki Take
Event Scene Artists: Tamotsu Kushibe, Yusuke Kashiwagi, Mamoru Ohta, Hiromasa Yoshida, Fumihiko Kagawa, Yukihiro Ishida, Tatsuya Yabuta
Effects Artists: Tadakazu Aramaki, Takafumi Yoshioka, Seiichi Tsuruoka
Menu Screen Artist: Eriko Mikawa
Field Artists: Yuki Takahashi, Kazuko Ito, Takeshi Matsuura, Yuji Yamaga, Kenji Odaka, Michio Abe, Hitomi Nagao, Hisae Jibiki, Mayo Sudo, Akiko Muto, Ryouhei Yanase, Naoko Irube, Masashi Kuma, Takashi Saito, Akane Hayashi, Ken Suganuma, Hideaki Fujisawa, Keihan Fujii, Shuhei Sakamoto, Ryuichi Yamanaka, Akiko Ikehara, Yuichi Komagata
SEGA OF CHINA Staff: Makoto Uchida, Katusnori Kosuge, Cheng Li, Shao Mingzhu, Li MuZhang, Fang Jie, Sheng FeiFei, Bao JanGang, Mei Ling, Liu ChengLing, Yu YongQing, Li Shuo, Jing Huan, Digital Media Labo.,ink, Polygon Magic,ink.
Storyboard: Tatsuya Yabuta (EnumaElisch.LLP), Masaya Suzuki (EnumaElisch.LLP)
Lighting Imageboard: Yukihiro Ishida (EnumaElisch.LLP)
Artist Special Thanks: AM2 AuthMotion Team, Masaharu Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Tomatsu, Seiju Taniguchi, Makoto Yonezu, Taro Hino
Sound Director: Tomoya Ohtani
Music Composer: Mariko Nanba, Tomoya Ohtani, Hideaki Kobayashi, tai-hey, Jun Senoue
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshitada Miya, Masahiro Fukuhara, Yutaka Yamamoto (ATTIC ARCADE), Yoshikazu Sasahara, Hideyuki Arima (POWER HOUSE STUDIO), Stan Katayama
Recorded at: SOUND CREW STUDIO, POWER HOUSE STUDIO, ONKIO HAUS STUDIO, SOUND INN STUDIOS, OLYMPIC STUDIOS, DEL REY STUDIO
Mixed at: SEGA DIGITAL STUDIO, ATTIC ARCADE STUDIO, ONKIO HAUS STUDIO, SOUND INN STUDIOS, MIT STUDIO

Musicians

Drums: Toru Kawamura, Nobuo Eguchi
Electric Bass: Takeshi Taneda
Electric Guitar: Chewtaro Moritake, Yasutaka Kume, Jun Senoue
Acoustic Guitar: Chewtaro Moritake, Naganori Sakakibara
Electric Sitar: Chewtaro Moritake
Piano: Nobuo Kurata, Masaki Matsumoto
Chorus: Miho Fujiwara, Kazuko Hamano, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Flute: Bob Zung
Oboe: Hiroshi Shibayama
Accordion: Yoshiaki Sato
Strings: Kuwano Strings, Shinozaki Strings
1stVl: Hiroyuki Koike
2ndVl: Rei Koike
Vla: Tomoko Fukuhara
Vc: Tomio Yajima
Cb: Shinji Tanaka
Arranger: Takahito Eguchi, Yasutaka Kume
Additional Recording Director: Tadashi Otsubo
Recording Coordinator: Kiyoshi Yoshida (ATTIC ARCADE), Hidetaka "Carl" Shibata (POWER HOUSE STUDIO), Yoji Sugiyama (WITCH CRAFT), Kazuyuki Doki (RE-BIRTH), Jun Senoue, Tomoya Ohtani

Game Sound Department

Supervisor Sound Editor: Tatsuya Kouzaki
Sound Editor: Hiroaki Funane

Movie Sound Department

Supervisor Sound Editor: Eiji "AJ" Nakamura (RedAJ Sound)
Sound Editor: Chiharu "Micchi" Minekawa (RedAJ Sound), Kenichi "KEN" Saito (RedAJ Sound), Yoshihiro "PIRO" Maeda (RedAJ Sound)
Post-Production Manager: Masayasu Yamashita, Kazuya Taniguchi
Mixing Engineer: Kazutaka Someya
Assistant Engineer: Tomohiro Fuchikami
Foley Artist & Editor: Yuka Kitazawa
Visual Technician: Natsuko Yamashita
Mixing Studio: DIGITAL EGG STUDIO MA-1 <THXpm3>
Sound Section Special Thanks: Todd Singerman, Lynn Grossman, Melody Santos, Ken Sakata (A&K CORPORATION), Koji Matsumoto, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Ai Muroi, Naofumi Hataya, Masaru Setsumaru, Seirou Okamoto
VP Product Development: Jin Shimazaki
Voice Coordinator/Dialog Director: Eriko Kimura
Dubibing Production Manager: Hiroyuki Inage, Yae Tateyama (TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION)
Voice Recording Studio: STUDIO UNI, OMNIBUS JAPAN
CG movie Director: Minoru Kusakabe, Tomokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Yonemichi
CG movie Modeling: Hideyuki Higashi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Hiroaki Ohta, Toshiya Sugiura, Satoshi Takahashi, Hideaki Makinouchi, Takayuki Hayama, Yoshihiro Hanada, Takeshi Hoshino, Yutaka Yamaki, Satoshi Kounosu, Kazushige Hayakawa, Emiri Minagawa, Tomohiro Mitsui, Naoto Kawaguchi, Jun Masuda
CG movie Setup & Animation: Jiro Yamagishi, Yusuke Sakai, Kiminori Kusano, Kenou Hakamaya, Mio Tagiri, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Takaaki Kise, Tatsunori Tomiyama, Tatsuya Akagi, Kengou Nukizono, Yoshimasa Kimura, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Kei Miyamoto
CG movie VFX & Sequence: Yoshihisa Inoue, Keisuke Takahashi, Shuntaro Furukawa, Kouhei Kajisa, Satoshi Tomatsu, Tsubasa Nakai, Takeyuki Suzuki, Masayuki Tanaka, Takuya Hada
CG movie Engineer: Taku Wakisaka, Toru Iwata, Jun Saito
CG movie Management: Takeshi Ito, Masahito Imamura, Yoshifumi Sueda, Chikako Tanaka
CG movie: AOKI Prod., Blur Studio, Inc., SHIROGUMI INC., FORO GRAFICO CO.,LTD., GEMBA.Inc.
Motion Capture: SEGA Motion Capture Team, Takeo Iwata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shunkichi Yukitake, Kimiko Nakaizumi, Hitoshi Noda, Yukie Hagiwara
Motion Capture Actor: WONDERMAN, Tony Hosokawa, Iori Sakakibara, Ami Sakai, Tomomi Ohta, Naoyasu Achi, Wataru Koga, ACTION ACTOR GROUP "KATSUGEKIZA"
Dancer: Kaori Nishimura, Sachiko Takagi, Mariko Tagami
Choreographer: EASY
Motion Capture Data Editing: DOUBLE-O-BUCK Inc., ORBITAL LINK Inc., Dynamo Pictures, Inc.
Publicity Artwork: Yuji Uekawa
Game Script: Kiyoko Yoshimura, Shiro Maekawa
Web Team: Mayumi Moro, Yuichi Kikuchi, Takeshi Ichimura
Special Thanks: Takashi Iizuka, Hirono Sato, Keith Palmer, Keisuke Nakamura, Yojiro Ogawa, Sachiko Kawamura, Masanobu Yamamoto, Tetsu Katano, Fumitaka Shibata (wave master), Tetsuya Hotozuka, Takeshi Sakakibara, Keiichi Noda, Eitaro Toyoda, Yoshihisa Hashimoto, Takashi Atsu, Yoshiaki Hattori, Hitoshi Ohta

Cast

English Character Voices: Lacey Chabert as Princess Elise, Lisa Ortiz, Bella Hudson, Mike Pollock, David Wills, Dan Green, Maddie Blaustein, Kathleen Delaney, Jason Griffith, Pete Capella, Amy Palant
Japanese Character Voices: Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Koji Yusa, Daisuke Ono, Maaya Sakamoto, Takayuki Sakazume, Ryo Hirohashi, Nobutoshi Kanna, Rumi Ochiai, Taitem Kusunoki, Nawo Takamori, Taeko Kawata, Hikari Yono, Keiji Okuda, Yoshikazu Kazuma, Kenji Utsumi, Chikao Otsuka

Sega Corporation (Japan)

Product Marketing Manager: Yasushi Yamashita, Naoko Ooka, Satoshi Imai, Takeshi Shimizu
Retail Sales Manager: Akihide Ichimura
Sales Promotion: Osamu Sato
Public Relations Leader: Hiromi Seida
Technical Support: Takashi Shoji, Akihiro Etori, Osamu Ogata, Toyoji Kurose
Localization Support: Representatives at IBPD, Aya Takeuchi, Shinobu Shindo
Product Management: Junichi Shimizu
Product Support: Akira Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyano, Yuki Takahashi, Daisuke Suzuki
Quality Control: Sunao Murayama, Yuji Nakamura, Kenji Oohashi
Support Team: Masayuki Takahashi, Kiyotaka Kondo, Yukihiro Taguchi
Software Manuals & Packaging: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Hiroki Osawa, Takashi Nishimura , Tetsuya Honda, Colin Restall

Sega of America, Inc.

CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
President/COO: Simon Jeffery
VP of Product Development: David Cobb
Technical Director: Jez Sherlock
VP, Marketing: Scott Steinberg
Director, Marketing: Don Mesa
Producer: Justin Lambros
Producer Assistant: Marta Khosraw
PR: Anne-Marie Stein, One PR, Jeane Wong, One PR, Dana Whitney, One PR
Creative Services: Jen Groeling, Heather Luchetti, Bridget Oates
Head of Operations: Tom Dudley
Online: Chris Olson, Leri Greer, Mike Dobbins
Mastering Lab: Rey Buzon, Andrew Byrne, Rhianna Kellom
QA Manager: Deni Skeens
QA Supervisor: Josh Morton
Senior Test Lead: Shawn Dobbins
Project Lead: Lee Frohman
Assistant Lead: Chad Ginsburg
Testers: Chris Pierce, Jesse LaGrange, Andrew Thanyawatpokin, Peter Koenig
Compliancy Test Lead: Stephen Akana
Compliancy Assistant Lead: Lawrence Mann
Compliancy Testers: Andrew Weaver, Joe Floyd, John Belcher, Eduardo Camacho
Special Thanks: Beejey Enriquez, Kevin Frane, Takashi Iizuka, Jason Kuo, Keith Palmer, Yosuke Moriya, Ben Harrison

4Kids Production, Inc.

Voice Directors: Christopher Collet, Julie Rath
Production Coordinator: Salvatore Oppedisano
Pro Tools Engineers: Suzy Goldish, Paul Grassini, Mike Knoblauch, Alon Namdar, Questar Welsh

Blindlight

Casting Director: Dawn Hershey, C.S.A.
Voice Director: Lisa Schaffer
VO Producer: Alexandra Dorris
Casting Assistant: Dave Lieber
Production Assistant: Wes Gleason
Recording Engineer: J. David Atherton

SEGA Europe Limited

CEO: Naoya Tsurumi
President/COO: Mike Hayes
Development Director: Gary Dunn
Creative Director: Matthew Woodley
Director of European Marketing: Gary Knight
Head of Studio, Localisation: Kuniyo Matsumoto
Senior Producer, Localisation: Akiko Uchida
European PR: Lynn Daniel, Kerry Martyn
Senior Brand Manager - Japanese Studios: David Allen
International Brand Manager: Ben Chalmers-Stevens
Creative Services: Alison Warfield, Tom Bingle, Morgan Gibbons, Akane Hiraoka, Arnoud Tempelaere
Head of Operations: Mark Simmons
Operations: Caroline Searle, Natalie Cooke
Online Services: Justin Moodie, Nina Ahmad, Bennie Booysen, Mike Evans, Romily Broad
Head of Development Services: Mark Le Breton
Master Tech. Group: John Hegarty, Jigar Patel
QA Supervisors: Marlon Grant, Stuart Arrowsmith
Senior Team Leads: Dominic Berzins, Julie Metior
Assistant Team Leads: Gabriel Ralls, Alex Humphries, Renée Teloka, Marlon Andall
Standards Coordinators: Mohammed Ajaib, Michael Hanley, Ali Hassan, Language Team Leads, Jean Baptiste Bagot, Sven Wittmaack

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