Seems like I'm the minority but sonic unleashed is way better than colors. The boost stages are not even comparable, not a single stage in colors is better than any boost stages, they are way more fun in unleashed and they don't rely on 2D. The game also controls way better than colors.
Sonic just feels akward in colors. Round 1: Art Design Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors have a very similar looking style, but how they go about expressing it is literally worlds apart. Sonic Unleashed art design focused on taking real world locales such as China, Italy, Greece, and New York, and transforming them to fit with in the relam of Sonic.
Arguably though Sonic Colors is the more focused and refined game since it's focused on one kind of gameplay and builds on the introduction of boost from Unleashed (before it became an increasingly obvious crutch). Yeah sonic colours for access reasons you can only play it on wii as opposed to sonic unleashed where it is backwards compatible on xbox one and has a decent sonic generations mod on pc. Although a remaster isn't really needed just a port.
Unleashed has better highs with lower lows while Colors is more consistent in comparison IMO Unleashed does a better job of selling its fantasy of free running around the world at Mach speeds cause of the graphics and the more obstacle course based level design. I never completed unleashed bc I REALLY don't like the werehog gameplay, but if you're going by which is more fun for boost gameplay I would say Unleashed. Colors is basically Sonic Rush if it wasn't good.
it's pretty much a 2d game. also I personally don't like most of the level designs. For Sonic Colors on the Wii, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Unleashed vs colors".
I will admit that Sonic Colors is a good game, it fixes problem in Unleashed, but I find that former better. Hilariously, Sonic Unleashed SD and both versions of Colors all tied. I didn't look at music, but I didn't because this would be too long, and I love the soundtrack of both games, I just can't choose.
Sonic Unleashed had the best Day/Normal Sonic levels I've seen in a 3D Sonic game for a while, but the Night Stages are incredibly slow compared to the fast and lively Day stages and the combat is hard to grasp. Sonic Colors didn't have a certain werehog but didn't have the decency to localise the title for us 'Colour' speakers. Modern Sonic: Unleashed VS Colors VS Generations VS Forces CTA CameronTheAwesome 11/20/17 'Sup gamers, CTA here.
Guess what? More Sonic content! Forces came out a few days ago, its release made me play a marathon, making want to just keep talking about Sonic. If it's not obvious, I love Sonic. It's my favorite franchise of all time.