Finally, Knuckles and Rouge are comprised of exploring big and open levels, in which you have to search for pieces of the Master Emerald. Then we have Tails’ and Eggman’s stages in which both characters pilot robots, and these levels are shooty and explosive. Firstly, we have the speedy stages of Sonic, while, being that he’s an evil version of Sonic, Shadow’s stages are the same, with the only difference being the way in which he skates through levels, really.

You see, there are basically three styles of gameplay here. You may think that six characters would make for a lot of variation, but this simply isn’t the case. Eggman (or Robotnik, depending on who you may be) as well two new characters who were introduced here: Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat. On the dark side on the other hand, there’s Dr. So, who makes up the selection of characters? On the hero side we obviously have Sonic himself, but joining him are Tails and Knuckles. Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly not going to win any awards for storytelling and the voice acting is really quite laughable, but, even though the series has made great strides in its sense of humour since this game was first released in 2001, it’s amusing enough. This time around the plot is told from both the hero and the dark side, and is actually decent enough for what it is. Like the original game, Sonic Adventure 2 sees the intertwining stories of multiple characters. Since then, things have fortunately changed for the better, and Sonic Adventure 2 has been treat with more respect. The downloadable version of the original Sonic Adventure was marred by the lack of a widescreen mode, and it was shocking to learn that SEGA didn’t seem to have as much respect for their back catalogue as they ought to. Publisher: SEGA Developer: Sonic Team Genre: Platformer, Adventure Players: 1-2Īge Rating: 7+ Other console/handheld formats: PS3, PSN, Dreamcast, Gamecube

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