As a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series for most of my life, I've been playing since Sonic 1 & 2 on the original SEGA Megadrive, Sonic 2 being my favourite. Unfortunately I was unaware of Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic CD being released, until Sonic Gems and Mega Collection. Instead, when it was released, I got Sonic Adventure DX and 2 Battle on the Game Cube, and Adventure 2 Battle took over my life as my favourite Sonic game ever. That title now stands next to Sonic Generations as I can't decide which is better. Generations made me relive "Classic" Sonic on some of the greatest stages ever created and faced some of the best bosses ever created! From Green Hill right up to the final boss, everything about Generations makes me want to keep playing, and Modern Sonic wasn't just boosting through the level, and although that's his style, I didn't mind, being a fan of the old platformer style (thankfully I'm not one of those Sonic fans who say that Sonic died since the start of the Modern Era, where-as I've enjoyed every single title, Heroes, '06, Secret Rings, Black Knight, Unleashed and Colours) and am thankfully he was slowed down a bit, although the homing attack irritated me since it stopped dead in the air then fell down, unlike Adventure 2 where you kind of got some speed from it. I wouldn't agree with the comment above about Sonic Colours being a good match to it, this is much, much better. Although I'm not pleased with the voice actors, I couldn't care less in this game, unlike Colours with its' cheesy dialogue and Roger's stupid voice. Anyway, the game deserves the 5 star rating, and I can't wait to get the collector's edition I've ordered. Can't wait to see what the 25th Anniversery will bring, since the 20th went out with a bang! No, A SONIC BOOM!