Sonic Heroes? Not the best, but not terrible either.
Sonic Advance? Not bad, for being the ***first original 2-D Sonic game in several years***.
Sonic Rush? Ten times better than ALL of the Advance games.
Shadow the Hedgehog? Seriously, have you actually read a review by someone other than IGN, GameSpot, or Game Informer? Both TSS *and* Nintendo Power gave Shadow rather good reviews, even if it DOES have camera / control issues.
Don't mess with a Sonic expert, fewl.
Correction, Sonic Advance 1 was good, the others sucked.
Also, of course Nintendo Power said something good about Shadow the Hedgehog, because they wanted to sell it, no matter what. You don't exactly see really horrible scores in Nintendo Power for their games do you? No. Game Informer and everyone else are actually telling their true opinion of the game, not to mention I know a couple people who own the game, and they have all said it was horrible.
I have Sonic Rush, I played it 4 times in total and I hate that game. And yes compared to Sonic Advance 2, and 3, it is an improvemt. But that doesn't mean it still sucks.
I played Sonic Heroes for an accumulated 30 seconds at Gamestop, because that's all I could stand of it. I dropped the controller, shook my head, and walked away.
I don't call myself a Sonic expert but anyone can tell these games suck. I have been playing the Sonic games for a near 11-12 years. I loved the old games, but Sonic is as good as dead at this point.