Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric delivers a completely new action-adventure gameplay experience for Sonic fans. The detailed levels and emphasis on each character’s unique abilities give players more choice in…
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is an adventure developed by Big Red Button, released 11 November 2014 on Wii U.
What Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is an adventure game developed by Big Red Button and released in 2014. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii U only. It runs on CryEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric delivers a completely new action-adventure gameplay experience for Sonic fans. The detailed levels and emphasis on each character’s unique abilities give players more choice in exploration as they work as a team to stop the deadly snake-like ancient villain, Lyric, before he can power up his army. Players will be challenged by over-the-top speed runs, but the heart of the game is focused on intense combat and brand-new abilities including the Enerbeam. This energy-charged cord can be used by characters to navigate the world like never before. Swing or zip-line across gaps, grab and throw enemies, take away their shields in combat, and explore alternate paths filled…
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: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is the 300th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2014. Its critic score of 38 is 33 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric holds a critic score of 38 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 31 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric launched on 11 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.
Official trailer
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