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Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 zips onto Windows Phone for £5.49

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Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 zips onto Windows Phone for £5.49
By Will Wilson
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Windows Phone
| Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Microsoft’s Must Have Games promotion for Windows Phone (sans ‘7’) continues in earnest with the release of Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 on the Zune Marketplace.

Sonic 4: Ep 1 (as I’m going to call it, for sanity’s sake) is a direct port of the mobile title that hit iPhone late last year - a completely new Sonic adventure that tries to recapture the magic of the original games.

So that means some fast-then-slow-now-fast-again platforming across brightly coloured 2D worlds, taking in some familiar sights along the way.

We were pretty pleased with the original version, giving the game a Pocket Gamer Bronze Award after getting to grips with the less-accurate touchscreen platform controls.

Alas, in keeping with most of the recent releases, Sonic 4: Ep 1 is priced at a whopping £5.49.

It's under half the cost of the Xbox 360 version, but still fairly pricey for a mobile title (the iPhone version retails for £3.99 in comparison).

Will Wilson
Will Wilson
Will's obsession with gaming started off with sketching Laser Squad levels on pads of paper, but recently grew into violently shouting "Tango Down!" at random strangers on the street. He now directs that positive energy into his writing (due in no small part to a binding court order).