What a waste. The graphics are excellent but the story is horrible, not to mention the boards. I am definitely not a devout gamer, my last system was a Genesis, and bought this game out of nostalgia for the old Sonic. Most boards require nothing more than moving Sonic "forward", others, like a pitiful Casino Land, require playing pinball with games with bad physics and all but impossible to lose (I had to just let Sonic fall between the flippers). Don't waste the money, buy NFL2k instead.