They're not pushing huge volumes of detailed polygons, but it works well enough and retains the classic abstract designs you expect from a side-scrolling Sonic game. The background is smarter ...

The ideas in Sonic Superstars make the 2D aspect of the game feel fresh and new ... a giant pneumatic press in the background falls, making everything in the level jump. In the second act ...

Most Sonic games put the pedal to the metal ... swapping between the foreground and background, and showering you with rings every step. I also really enjoyed Lagoon City, which felt like a ...

Lying beneath these new inclusions is a Sonic game that embodies the very best ... with some impressive touches in the background that really emphasise a sense of being a 2.5D experience.

Sonic Prime is in no way a complicated ... inception — and many of them blend into the same blur of backgrounds. During the 2D games, the stages offered multileveled designs — allowing you ...

There are loads of interactive scenery elements and an emphasis on pinball bumpers, which was always one of the best things about Sonic games in the early '90s. The quality of background scenery ...