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Sonic Adventure 2 (GCN) Review

 
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                                    Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (GCN) Review
   So, Now it's time to tackle one of the better Modern sonic games out there, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. SA2 was released back on Febuary 12 2001, it was the first sonic game to ever be released for a Nintendo
system. (and went on to make the 10th best selling game for the system) the game was first released for the Sega dreamcast, but the dreamcast and nintendo make to long of a story to post here, so onto the review.
 

~Gameplay~ 8
   Game play is very similar to other Sonic games, you start at the beginning and have to run to the end. The idea is to get points in the level and with enough points and rings you would get an A rank for the level
(kind of like a grade). also their are challenges for the levels, like collecting 100 rings, not getting hit, and finding the lost chao. so their is a lot to do But that's not all, there are levels where you play as Tails and
Robitnick in walkers and must shoot baddies to advance. And even levels where Knuckles and Rouge get some screen time to hunt for the Master emerald shards or Chaos emeralds. all in all there is a LOT for
the game to offer. there is a "Hero" and a "Dark" side to the game. On the Hero's side you play as Sonic (duh) Tails, and Knuckles. SONIC HEROE- never mind. . . On the "Dark" side you play as Shadow, Robotnick,
and Rouge. each side has (if i remember correctly) 13  stages including a special final stage if you clear them all. Oh and don't forget the MILTIPLAYER MODE! you can race you buddies a Sonic, Shadow, Metal
Sonic or Amy Rose. Each character has different abilities ('cept Shadow is a carbon copy of Sonic) Such as Metal Sonic having a shield and Amy needing less rings to perform abilities. And you can also clamber
around as Knuckles, Rogue, Tikal, and Chaos zero trying to find all the chaos emeralds or the master emerald shards. There is also Kart racing, and chao battles, we will talk about that latter though, next up is Graphics.

~Graphics~ 6
   Being a Dreamcast port, this isn't the shinyest game on the block. It has some rough edges, and you can definetly tell that the game is made of polygons. The walking and talking in the game isn't the greatest
for cutscenes especially when the say "chaos (insirt a very small akward pause here) emeralds". but it's a small thing and can be looked over. The enviorments are decent at least, the Green forest looks like the
Green forest, The Metal harbor looks like the metal harbor, and the dry lagoon looks like the Dry lagoon. Though their is one thing that I can't stand. . . their are a stretch of bridges high above the city, that are not
suspended to ANYTHING and they just look, wrong, with a black pit below you and paper cutouts for a background the place doesn't look all that entertaining. :/

   but on the flip side, levels like city escape, they look very well done. You can see a background far out that look like a city, and buildings with some actual detail, like a flower pot in the window, and some bikes
lined up beside the road, and mailboxesand a park, and taxis driving around (unless ironicly I am remembering the remake from generations that is) and it just looks like a real city. . . with a loop that lets you run
down the side of a building that is.

~Story~ 8
   I can't believe that Sonic games could have such good story. I literally played the "Dark" half of the game just so I could see the true ending. And I was actually INTERESTED in it. Most games I could pass on the
story, but I very much liked it in this one, I wanted to know what would happen when I beat the level and saw the cutscene. Now I would put the story down, but that would spoil it for you and would give me a bunch of
words without meaning. so I will skip that part, onto addictivenes.

~Addictiveness~  6
   Set aside the "Need" to finish the game and see the entire plot I wanted to finish the game and be done with it, it's kind of like Final fantasy (set aside that I have never played one) after you beat it, what's the point?
BUT the mulitplayer made me keep coming back for more, racing with my friends was So much fun. I'm just a big multiplayer guy. and they are my favorite type of game. what more can I say?

~Depth~ 8
   With over 20 hours to complete the game, 180 embems that you can gather, and four epic Vs modes. you will easily put over 100 hours into this one if you want to complete the game 100%. (and unlock the secret level.)  
   About the verses mode, it is only in this release for the Gamecube that you find the two player mode that is included in this game. there are four different modes to play in; Foot Race, Walker battle, Emerald Hunt, Kart  racing, and Chao Battles. I have laready told you briefly about foot race, So I will jump to the Walker Battle. In walker battles, there are only two charaters, Tails, and Robitnick, The would idea is to hit you opponent with missles and not take damage yourself, or on some courses your objective it to reach the goal ring. The Emerald hunt mode is where you fly around and climb  walls, hunting for the emerald shards/chaos emeralds. you have picture of the emerald on the bottom of the screen that flashed green when your near, yellow when your close, and red when your really close to it. when you get two of the three emeralds you win.
   And finally Kart racing, Kart racing is the only minigame that was in both Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.(though you were limited to just one player in SA2) It's just like it sounds, you race in a kart through a level and try to come in first, it can be played with one or two players. Charaters have different stats, like Sonic and Shadow have speed, Knuckles is balanced, and Tails has good acceleration. So their is a lot of depth to this game, for a dreamcast game, and a fair ammount for a Gamecube game.

~Sound/Music~ 6
   Now I have tow completely differnt opinions about the music in the game, I say it's great, and I say that it's terrible. let me explain.  
I took a real liking to the tunes in Sonic's levels, Like City escape, and Green forest, but I DIDN't like the tunes that were in the Knuckles levels like pumpkin hill, (mainly because I hate whaever genre of music that was in his levels) and also the mines. I don't really remember the Tails or robotnick levels music. maybe that says something because it's just not that good. But I just couldn't stand the "Live and Learn" theme in the game, it was SO annoying. if I was to reate just Sonic's Songs I would give it a 7, but with the weight of Knux and the main theme, I have to decrease the rating because of it.

~Overall~ 7.9
   all in all, this is a great Sonic title, not my favorite, but still a great one. The only thing I didn't really like about the game is that it was the end of the Retro era. Retro Sonic had died, and Sonic (and Sega for that matter) had moved on, Sonic had become modernized, Sonic heroes, and Secret Rings were around the corner that sent the series into a tailspin, And Sega had stopped making systems. I miss that era, but it had to come sometime, and even after 25 years of Sonic, the Blue blur is still having great releases.
   now that I have drifted a little of topic there, let's review the review.

   PROS:

Great levels as Sonic/Shadow

Some good music

Great Multiplayer Mode

   CONS:

Some horrible music :/

I'm honestly suprised that I didn't have more for Cons, but I guess that, is that.  So until next time!
                                    Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (GCN) Review
   So, Now it's time to tackle one of the better Modern sonic games out there, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. SA2 was released back on Febuary 12 2001, it was the first sonic game to ever be released for a Nintendo
system. (and went on to make the 10th best selling game for the system) the game was first released for the Sega dreamcast, but the dreamcast and nintendo make to long of a story to post here, so onto the review.
 

~Gameplay~ 8
   Game play is very similar to other Sonic games, you start at the beginning and have to run to the end. The idea is to get points in the level and with enough points and rings you would get an A rank for the level
(kind of like a grade). also their are challenges for the levels, like collecting 100 rings, not getting hit, and finding the lost chao. so their is a lot to do But that's not all, there are levels where you play as Tails and
Robitnick in walkers and must shoot baddies to advance. And even levels where Knuckles and Rouge get some screen time to hunt for the Master emerald shards or Chaos emeralds. all in all there is a LOT for
the game to offer. there is a "Hero" and a "Dark" side to the game. On the Hero's side you play as Sonic (duh) Tails, and Knuckles. SONIC HEROE- never mind. . . On the "Dark" side you play as Shadow, Robotnick,
and Rouge. each side has (if i remember correctly) 13  stages including a special final stage if you clear them all. Oh and don't forget the MILTIPLAYER MODE! you can race you buddies a Sonic, Shadow, Metal
Sonic or Amy Rose. Each character has different abilities ('cept Shadow is a carbon copy of Sonic) Such as Metal Sonic having a shield and Amy needing less rings to perform abilities. And you can also clamber
around as Knuckles, Rogue, Tikal, and Chaos zero trying to find all the chaos emeralds or the master emerald shards. There is also Kart racing, and chao battles, we will talk about that latter though, next up is Graphics.

~Graphics~ 6
   Being a Dreamcast port, this isn't the shinyest game on the block. It has some rough edges, and you can definetly tell that the game is made of polygons. The walking and talking in the game isn't the greatest
for cutscenes especially when the say "chaos (insirt a very small akward pause here) emeralds". but it's a small thing and can be looked over. The enviorments are decent at least, the Green forest looks like the
Green forest, The Metal harbor looks like the metal harbor, and the dry lagoon looks like the Dry lagoon. Though their is one thing that I can't stand. . . their are a stretch of bridges high above the city, that are not
suspended to ANYTHING and they just look, wrong, with a black pit below you and paper cutouts for a background the place doesn't look all that entertaining. :/

   but on the flip side, levels like city escape, they look very well done. You can see a background far out that look like a city, and buildings with some actual detail, like a flower pot in the window, and some bikes
lined up beside the road, and mailboxesand a park, and taxis driving around (unless ironicly I am remembering the remake from generations that is) and it just looks like a real city. . . with a loop that lets you run
down the side of a building that is.

~Story~ 8
   I can't believe that Sonic games could have such good story. I literally played the "Dark" half of the game just so I could see the true ending. And I was actually INTERESTED in it. Most games I could pass on the
story, but I very much liked it in this one, I wanted to know what would happen when I beat the level and saw the cutscene. Now I would put the story down, but that would spoil it for you and would give me a bunch of
words without meaning. so I will skip that part, onto addictivenes.

~Addictiveness~  6
   Set aside the "Need" to finish the game and see the entire plot I wanted to finish the game and be done with it, it's kind of like Final fantasy (set aside that I have never played one) after you beat it, what's the point?
BUT the mulitplayer made me keep coming back for more, racing with my friends was So much fun. I'm just a big multiplayer guy. and they are my favorite type of game. what more can I say?

~Depth~ 8
   With over 20 hours to complete the game, 180 embems that you can gather, and four epic Vs modes. you will easily put over 100 hours into this one if you want to complete the game 100%. (and unlock the secret level.)  
   About the verses mode, it is only in this release for the Gamecube that you find the two player mode that is included in this game. there are four different modes to play in; Foot Race, Walker battle, Emerald Hunt, Kart  racing, and Chao Battles. I have laready told you briefly about foot race, So I will jump to the Walker Battle. In walker battles, there are only two charaters, Tails, and Robitnick, The would idea is to hit you opponent with missles and not take damage yourself, or on some courses your objective it to reach the goal ring. The Emerald hunt mode is where you fly around and climb  walls, hunting for the emerald shards/chaos emeralds. you have picture of the emerald on the bottom of the screen that flashed green when your near, yellow when your close, and red when your really close to it. when you get two of the three emeralds you win.
   And finally Kart racing, Kart racing is the only minigame that was in both Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.(though you were limited to just one player in SA2) It's just like it sounds, you race in a kart through a level and try to come in first, it can be played with one or two players. Charaters have different stats, like Sonic and Shadow have speed, Knuckles is balanced, and Tails has good acceleration. So their is a lot of depth to this game, for a dreamcast game, and a fair ammount for a Gamecube game.

~Sound/Music~ 6
   Now I have tow completely differnt opinions about the music in the game, I say it's great, and I say that it's terrible. let me explain.  
I took a real liking to the tunes in Sonic's levels, Like City escape, and Green forest, but I DIDN't like the tunes that were in the Knuckles levels like pumpkin hill, (mainly because I hate whaever genre of music that was in his levels) and also the mines. I don't really remember the Tails or robotnick levels music. maybe that says something because it's just not that good. But I just couldn't stand the "Live and Learn" theme in the game, it was SO annoying. if I was to reate just Sonic's Songs I would give it a 7, but with the weight of Knux and the main theme, I have to decrease the rating because of it.

~Overall~ 7.9
   all in all, this is a great Sonic title, not my favorite, but still a great one. The only thing I didn't really like about the game is that it was the end of the Retro era. Retro Sonic had died, and Sonic (and Sega for that matter) had moved on, Sonic had become modernized, Sonic heroes, and Secret Rings were around the corner that sent the series into a tailspin, And Sega had stopped making systems. I miss that era, but it had to come sometime, and even after 25 years of Sonic, the Blue blur is still having great releases.
   now that I have drifted a little of topic there, let's review the review.

   PROS:

Great levels as Sonic/Shadow

Some good music

Great Multiplayer Mode

   CONS:

Some horrible music :/

I'm honestly suprised that I didn't have more for Cons, but I guess that, is that.  So until next time!
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As I was expecting, since you're a Site Staff, this is a really good review. I think you've pretty much covered every part of the game. Nice job!

Refer to my semi-accidental post here. I thought that review was the one done today, but it turns out that it's this one. :s
As I was expecting, since you're a Site Staff, this is a really good review. I think you've pretty much covered every part of the game. Nice job!

Refer to my semi-accidental post here. I thought that review was the one done today, but it turns out that it's this one. :s
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A bombchu link review! Nice work here. It's in depth, has plenty of detail, and just gives the player a good idea of what to expect. It makes me want to play the game, and I'm not even a Sonic fan really. lol Keep up the good work!
A bombchu link review! Nice work here. It's in depth, has plenty of detail, and just gives the player a good idea of what to expect. It makes me want to play the game, and I'm not even a Sonic fan really. lol Keep up the good work!
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