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They're fairly bi-polar with this DRM thing, aren't they?

Well, I'm part of the problem; I skipped this purchase since I refuse to install Origin. Also, I was hoping for a mode with bots akin to BF1 and BF2 for practice and playing with friends.

Yes, very cute. However, pirates won't have an issue with this for very long, if they've been inconvenienced at all.

This is very troubling. Spurred on by the success of Valve, companies like EA are migrating to the digital space as brick-and-mortar purchases for the PC are going the way of the dinosaur.

Valve has come a long way combating the so-called evils of software piracy with Steam, but this kind of thing puts a bad taste in the consumer's mouth.

Problems like these will drive people back to torrents if they don't start properly auditing their systems for security weaknesses.

Great review - I'm curious about it now! The Wii I purchased in 2006 has been collecting dust for a couple of years now. It's really a pity that few developers can bring excitement to the Wii like Nintendo themselves.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I feel Joystiq is really off the mark on this one. So much so, I felt obligated to create an account and post here.

Let me preface my comment by saying that I'm an old guy (i'm 33, god help me) - and I grew up with Sonic on the Genesis. Later, I rekindled my love affair with the spiky blue hedgehog on the Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure which I LOVED, despite the non-Sonic/Tails levels and weird interactions with humans. (Where were they in the classic series?) Adventure 2 was iffy, and then I was pretty much done after trying all the gimmicky sequels with swords, race cars and werewolves.

Sonic Generations features some of my favorite levels from the games I played in my younger days. Retooled and revamped to be played two different ways each - with different obstacles and music to accompany them.

Gameplay for classic Sonic is about what you'd expect - and modern Sonic's gameplay rewards memorization and careful timing. Lots of practice in Sonic Adventure made those stages a breeze for me.

It's fun watching the modern tough-guy running through the cutesy colorful Green Hill Zone, and it's just as entertaining to watch the pudgy prototypical Sonic hopping through nightmarish worlds like Crisis City.

In the style of Turtles Forever or DC's Infinite Crisis, you get to watch different interpretations of the same characters interact which is a joy.

And it's just a fun game to play.