Sonic the Hedgehog has a lot to answer for. I'm not talking about all the rubbish merchandise he's spawned over the years, but the fact that he may well have killed off the Dreamcast. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 - the first Sonic games in 3D - were a bit shit. Sure they had their moments, but they were hardly the must-have masterpieces you expect from a company mascot.
Product Information. Run, roll, and attack with Sonic the Hedgehog and friends in this exciting installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. With 14 action-filled levels and a cast of amusing characters, Sonic Heroes for the Sony PlayStation 2 earns its spot in the Greatest Hits library. Sonic Heroes (ソニック ヒーローズ Sonikku Hīrōzu) is a platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. It was first released on December 2003 in Japan, then on the first couple of months of the following year.
Now, four years too late, Sega is finally starting to get 3D Sonic right, and Sonic Heroes is the highly likeable result. Eschewing all the woeful adventure' elements of recent titles, Sonic Heroes puts the focus back on breakneck dashes through madarchitectural dreamscapes, with all the loops, corkscrews, bounce pads and boss battles your watering eyes can handle.The gameplay is still remarkably simple - go fast, collect rings, bop the occasional robot on the head. The key difference here is that instead of running solo, you now control a team of three characters. In the case of Team Sonic, that means the blue streak is flanked by Knuckles and Tails, though there are three other teams to choose from as well - Teams Dark, Rose and Chaotix.
At the flick of a button (or mouse-wheel if you must), your team changes formation, and with it the character you're controlling, giving you access to a different set of abilities and insane special attacks. Sonic is fast, Tails can fly, Knuckles can punch through blocks. You get the picture.
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The action is bewildering and frenetic, the challenge is minimal and the usual camera problems persist, but this is still an exuberantly entertaining game.