Shadow the Hedgehog
The world is in peril as forces, both good and evil, make a play for the powerful Chaos Emeralds. In Shadow the Hedgehog, you can control Shadow and choose which side to fight for. This 3D platformer lets you…
Shadow the Hedgehog is an adventure developed by Sega Studio USA, released 15 November 2005 on PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Shadow the Hedgehog is
Shadow the Hedgehog is an adventure game developed by Sega Studio USA and released in 2005. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The world is in peril as forces, both good and evil, make a play for the powerful Chaos Emeralds. In Shadow the Hedgehog, you can control Shadow and choose which side to fight for. This 3D platformer lets you use weapons, vehicles, environmental objects, and time and space manipulation to combat your foes. Although it is a 3D platform game as with the more recent Sonic Adventure games, the game's levels each feature up to three different missions (Hero, Dark, Normal) that the player may choose to complete. The game's plot depends on which mission is completed as well as subsequent playable levels. The game stars Shadow the Hedgehog and his quest to recover his memory, a goal he has been…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Shadow the Hedgehog is the 155th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Combo Pack: Sonic Advance + Sonic Pinball Party in 2005. Its critic score of 46 is 25 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Shadow the Hedgehog holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 48, across 112 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs.
What it launched against
Shadow the Hedgehog launched on 15 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Mario Kart DS.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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