When I was just a small boy, I had no idea what a dreamcast was until I was just a young teenager when I found out about sonic so being curious, I decided to learn more and no matter what any of the annoying fanboys say about Sonic the Hedgehog, I will always have a special place for Sonic in my Video game hall of fame (thats just a figure of speech by the way) As each day went by I learned more about the blue blurs history and his many adventures with such iconic allies including Knuckles the Echidna, Tails the fox (or kitsune but whatever) Amy Rose,Big the cat, the chaotix detective agency, and more. Each game and other related media I could get my hands on at any given time spurred more interest in this game series until one day I had discovered great things about the iconic dreamcast game, Sonic Adventure. Now this is a game I absolutely adore to pieces it has incredible voice acting but I'll get to that soon enough. this is known for being the first real 3d Sonic game as well as the dreamcasts best selling game, it sold 2.5 million copies around the world. playing as each character was a real pleasure to get to know them, this game has pretty much everything, a good story, great graphics, good sound quality, an expansive world full of depth and is highly addictive and habit forming, I couldn't stop playing it when I got my own copy, (granted it was the remake for the pc but, such is life, beggars can't be choosers) Now its time to get straight down to business.

As far as the story goes, its split between six playable characters Big the cat, Tails, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, the newcomer E102 gamma and of course the spiky blue mascot for Sega who can run faster than the speed of sound, and possessing lightning fast reflexes, Sonic the hedgehog. After Sonic returns from who knows where, the cocky adventurer comes to a city named Station Square, only to find out That Doctor Robotnik (later known  officially as Doctor Eggman) has unleashed a powerful deity known as Chaos, the god of destruction. After finding tails stranded on the sandy beaches of the Emerald Coast the dynamic duo decide to head over to Tails workshop in the mystic ruins and catch up on lost time. However things don't always go the way you plan them to go. After a brief battle with the bad doctor, the evil scientist snatches a chaos emerald from tails hands, much to their horror, and proceeds to feed Chaos the emerald to the watery god resulting in a transformation. If Chaos is fed all seven chaos emeralds he will become super strong,and level entire civilizations to sheer rubble in this case, Doctor Robotnik will then build upon the ruins of Station Square, his ultimate city, Robotnik Land ( I know he's got such an over inflated ego) After that villains monologue, the evil duo proceed to look for another emerald, prompting Sonic and Tails to find the chaos emeralds before Robotnik can get to them first and feed them to chaos (honestly does anyone find Omega Shenron in Dragon Ball GT very similar to Chaos? I know I do) and a new adventure awaits. But theres more to the main plot than just Sonic and tails perspective, Knuckles, the last echidna alive is lamenting on his eternal loneliness and fate to guard the master emerald. Never knowing why he was given such a responsibility, Knuckles continued to ponder his fate his life and his uncertain future during a dark and stormy night until he was awoken to the sound of smashing, looking behind him he had seen that the master emerald had been shattered and in its place stood a destructive creature and a glowing ball of light. As soon as the creature left, Angel Island fell into the ocean and The last Echidna in sonics world takes it upon himself to find the lost pieces of the enormous jewel and restore it to its former glory. In Doctor Robotniks laboratory he has created a line of robots known as the e-100 series, they are E-101 beta, E-103 Delta, E-104 Epsilon, E-105 Zeta, and last but certainly by no means the least, E-102  Gamma, A robot who all i will say developed a conscience. Amy Rose on the other hand must protect a small blue bird that is known as a flicky and tries to reunite the lost bird with its family while evading a robot named Zero AKA E-100 Alpha (he is called that by many fans including myself) and finally making his debut alongside Gamma is a laidback and jolly jungle hermit named Big (ha ha Sega your clearly having some lack of imagination here but that's not what I'm reviewing) who leaves is quiet life in the jungle to find his best friend Froggy the frog (again with lack of imagination, we know he's a frog) Froggy has been possessed by a part of Chaos and Big has to find him in each stage and fish him out. When all characters have been completed, you will unlock the final story. So theres your plot, its an awesome one too and now we move onto the graphics.

While the graphics of this incredible game are awesome and eye catching with some of the best details back then there were a couple of issues although the only one I can recall was the original games frame rate which made certain things like characters speaking a little choppy in some places but other than that the graphics are a vast improvement from the failed Sega Saturn. The Characters were even given major design changes thanks to the incredible artist, Yuji Uekawa (eg: the characters look much older and more up to date and the formerly colourless eyes were given irises.)the scenery were incredible environments with their own unique gimmicks and scenery, including polar cap areas to high speed running through the city although the characters mouth movements can be a little choppy, except for Doctor Robotniks mouth, which is either hidden by his bushy facial hair, or it doesn't move at all. not to mention the sky battles are awesome too when it comes to this games graphics overall the graphics are impressive but not entirely perfected. that's all I have to say about the games graphical power.

The sounds of this game are more than just diverse, every sound sounds pretty realistic at the time and if that weren't enough the game also had an incredible voice cast, starring Ryan Drummond, as Sonic, Corey Bringas as Tails, Micheal Mcgarharn as Knuckles, Jennifer Douillard  as Amy, Jon St Jon as Big the cat, Steve Broadie as Gamma, Elara Distler as the mysterious Tikal and the late Deem Bristow as the voice of Doctor Robotnik., Each voice actor had just the right voice for each character, Ryan made sonic sound cool an aloof while deem Bristow gave Robotnik a sinister and deep, gravelly voice. As far as sounds go this game has it all, explosions, waves, things breaking, running water, splashes and the music don't get me started most of the games music was composed by Jun Senoue and his band, Crush 40, giving the games soundtrack a predominantly hard rock sound like one area in the sky deck level has guitars, bass drums and even keyboards, that part of the level sounds like it was composed by Deep Purple without any singing but it was at the same time diverse in its music, there are no more words to describe this games soundtrack other than there should be more games like it.

As I mentioned earlier, this game is incredibly addictive and habit forming, once you start playing your instantly hooked on this games endless energy, smashing enemies and really having nothing but a good time, Sonic Adventure is one of those games that you want to keep until you die in the real world. Running at breakneck speeds is an amazing part of this game giving you a sort of thrill as you speed down buildings and navigate treacherous temples this game will never let go of you once your hooked everything about it, is a masterpiece, a timeless classic. Now the next thing that I will cover, is the depth and trust me there's tons of it

the depth of this game is plainly obvious and in the best way possible, by playing as six different characters, you get six types of game play. Sonics game play involves making it from one end of the level to the other end of said level at high speeds. Tails game play is similar to Sonics but there's a catch. You have to race either Sonic or Doctor Robotnik in each level, the character you race depends on what level your on, but Tails as a distinct advantage. Having twin tails has given the young fox the ability to fly and by flying he can take shortcuts but using it drains his energy so use it sparingly. Knuckles game play take place in an enclosed area of each level his mission is to find three pieces of the master emerald to complete the level and progress further. Amy has the shortest storyline in the game and her way of playing is to get to the end of the level while avoiding Zero the chase master. Bigs Game play is kind of boring but this is balanced by a a short storyline, his method of completing a level is fishing for froggy (yup you heard me, fishing). In addition to trying to catch the elusive amphibian, Big can also catch a wide variety of fish and Gammas game play is a shooting style game, you have to destroy a certain target before time runs out but if you shoot down some of robotniks robot foot soldiers, you can earn bonus time.now the characters game play has been settled lets move on to the levels.In Sonic Adventure the levels are connected by three hub worlds. Station Square, Mystic Ruins, and the Egg Carrier. each level is unique it carries certain elements in each level including Highways, volcanic mountains frozen ice caps, casinos, and much much more. you can even function as a living pinball in the pinball areas of the casino. On top of all that there are plenty of non player characters that are scattered throughout the hub worlds. Some just say random things while others drop very useful hint. the levels have plenty of fun gimmicks such as the aforementioned pinball style of game play, rockets to get higher up, jump pads that you can jump from one to the next and upgrades. And a lot of these upgrades are essential to completing the whole game. Others like the fighting gloves and jet anklets are completely optional. And have you ever wanted a virtual pet, well Sonic adventure delivered that as well with three different chao gardens. in these gardens you ca raise your very own chao as a pet, there is even a chao shop providing a lo9t of good stuff for your chao, such as fruit and different assorted chao eggs, a feature that was carried on in Sonic adventure two, another awesome game. alright, its time to wrap this baby up.

Like I said before with all these high scores in each specific area, its no wonder this game was the dreamcasts best seller and an extremely great masterpice from sega, this game pretty much expanded Sonics world and relationships in so many different ways, this game will never get old and is a video game treasure that I will not part with, not even if I was given all the money in the world this game was worth the dough I spent on it (well the remake of it anyway) thank you for reading. Arwingstarfighter signing off

Other than your endless sentences, this review was excellent! You went into great details without being redundant, made strategic comparisons with Sega Saturn and really showed your love for the game. I hope you will write more reviews in the future!