Ah, I got to tell you guys something, And It Is about sonic the hedgehog! What Is It that I want to tell you about him? I want to tell you guys on vizzed board that I absolutely LOVE sonic the hedgehog, I personally think that each sonic the hedgehog game after the last Is fun, fast, challenging, and just overall fun to play! I have already reviewed a majority of His games on the vizzed board, And I think all of this Is nearly starting to come to a huge conclusion! But now let's get onto one of my favorite sonic games next to Sonic adventure 2 battle! What Is this game? You are about to find out! This Is Sonic heroes for the Nintendo gamecube!

Story-7/10
As always, This game takes place after the events of the last game, In this case sonic adventure 2. But anyways! After sonic and shadow's epic final battle with biolizard In space, Our two heroes need some rest. In fact, sonic and all of his friends are having problems! First we'll start with sonic tails and knuckles, Sonic is running the canyon one day when tails and knuckles catch up with him via plane, they give him a letter from robotnik saying that he has developed a weapon to destroy the world in three days. Now to shadow rouge and E-101 omega, Rouge Is looking for a treasure when she then finds shadow In a capsule and E-101 omega shut down by robotnik, Shadow has lost his memory and rouge Is holding against robotnik, So they all set out to stop him! Amy cream and big the cat are currently on the lookout for cream's chao chocola and big's friend froggy. Lastly we investigate vector espio and charmy the bee, Who have recently received a walkie-talkie who wants to hire them, Since these guys never dinie work they get payed for, The team accepts! So will everyone finally have their problems solved? Let's find out shall we?

Gameplay-8/10
This adventure plays differently from the last game, But It is for the better! But anyways, This is a 3D action platformer where you control sonic and his friends through big levels defeating enemies, collecting rings and items, And running really fast! Controls in the game are simple, You use the control stick to move, A to jump, B to attack, and X and Y to switch between characters. This game's newest feature Is to play as three characters each with their own special attributes and abilities, Speed Flight and Power. There are four teams In the game total, Team sonic with sonic tails and knuckles, Team dark with Shadow rouge and E-101 omega, Team rose with Amy cream and big, And team chaotix with Vector espio and charmy. You'll be collecting tons of items In your quest, Such as rings, extra lives, shields, and so on! Returning once again Is the rank and emblem system, Depending on how you did In the level, You'll be rewarded with An A B C D or E rank, So try your best to earn an A! And as for emblems, Each level and challenge you complete earns you an emblem which can then unlock stuff like mini-games and such. Sonic and his friends will be defeating tons of enemies in their quest, Such as robots, G.U.N soldiers. Troopers, and so on. Now to puzzles combat powers and abilities, The speed member of a group can run, spin dash, light dash, and speed up poles.The power member can break obstacles and destroy enemies with their super strength. Lastly, flight members can fly up places and such. Bosses In the game are pretty cool as well! You fight hawks, albatrosses, and other cool creations from robotnik! Anyways, That Is It for the gameplay!

Graphics-9/10
Sonic heroes was released In early 2004, January to be exact, And even 11 or so years later, This Is actually one of the prettiest and just most dazzling sonic games I have played In a while! From the level design to the characters, It Is all really good! As with the last game, You'll take sonic and the gang through big vast and really bright cartoony levels that you would expect from a Saturday Morning cartoon, You'll take them through the beach, You'll take them through the casino, You'll take them through the jungle, You'll take them through an air fleet, and many other places! The levels are all pretty fun as well, They all offer tons to do and alot to explore through, Mostly the casino which has a big pinball section! And That Is fun! Now let's get to the character models, The thing I noticed about this game Is just how shiny all the characters look! Not that It Is a bad thing, But still, Sonic still looks really blue, Tails still looks really bright and yellow, Knuckles Is still present with his big fists and nice red coat of paint, And all the other characters are pretty good too! The HUD in the game Is pretty self explanatory ONCE again, It shows your score in the level, How much time you have wasted, how many rings you have, Your team members, and If you have a key Or not, I will get Into that last part Later. Lastly, Cutscenes! They are all beautifully animated and have really good voice acting and such, And they are all pretty fun to watch!

Sound-8/10
As always, Sega never ever fails to disappoint with the amazing bright cartoony and just awesome soundtrack Of sonic's adventures, And this Is really no exception! The game now features once again another new song from the amazing band crush 40, Sonic heroes! Sing It with me guys, Sonic heroes! Sonic heroes! What comes up must come down, Never fear to touch the ground! I think those are the lyrics, But still, amazing song! Now the actual soundtrack, It Is once again Like you would expect from A sonic game, It Is pretty bright, cartoony, happy, catchy, and It Has never gotten repetitive at all for me! From the coastal seas of seaside hill where you start your adventure to the stormy air fleet of robotnik, The songs never fail to fit the mood of the respective levels! Now for the sound effects, You know what to expect guys! We get tons of chimes from collecting the rings, Boings from jumping on?that very spring, Booms from destroying those powerful robots, and well, You guys know what to expect! They are all amazing and awesome to hear! Lastly, the voice acting! Once again, Returning Is Ryan drummond as sonic, Connor bringeas as tails, Scott drier as knuckles, Deem bistrow as Robotnik, And tons of other amazing and enjoyable voices! Also, Please note that this Is the final game to feature Ryan drummond as Sonic and Deem bistrow as eggman, For as Ryan most presumably retired and Deem bistrow died for some reason, I still miss him alot though! Anyways, That Is It for the sound!

Addictiveness-9/10
I have always seen this game as one of the more fun cartoony and just original sonic games, And here are a couple of reasons why! Well to start off, The team system, And Boy Is It fun man! It Is such a breeze swaping between characters on the fly to take advantage of their unique abilites and solve puzzles and such! And second, The amount of stuff the game has for you to do, This game Is very big you know! There are over 120 emblems to collect, Over 4 unique stories to play through and complete, and Tons of other stuff to do! And that Is why I have always found this game as my favorite! Also, It Is once again finishing some levels that you think you can't finish, Such as the pesky team dark levels, Just finishing team dark's lost jungle level after 1000 or so deaths just felt so rewarding! Darn you crocodile! But oh well, what to expect guys? Just enjoy the game regardless of anything else!

Depth-9/10
As I have addressed In the last section, The game Is really really big and offers plenty of stuff to do and see! Well Let's start shall we? To start there are about 4 different stories To play through In this game, Each story logging In about 1-3 hours, and Like every other sonic game after this There Is an epic final story to finish off the game In A very epic fashion! Now to the amount of emblems, There are about 120 of them split through about 40-50 different levels, And finishing all of that rewards you with super hard mode, Which Is a very hard and irritating version of the game, And finishing this mode just feels so rewarding! Lastly, This game does have a multiplayer mode to It! With a friend, You can pick a team, choose a playing mode, And Just have fun! There Is a battle mode, A racing mode, And tons of other modes that I forgot about, No worries though! I'll remember myself later!

Difficulty-6/10
This game Isn't really that Hard If you look at It from here, But I forgot to mention This In the gameplay section, But each of the many stories In this game are targeted at a specific audience, The team sonic levels are targeted at players who have had plenty of experience with games before this game, The team dark levels are very very difficult and are aimed at the more intermediate players who enjoy challenge, The team rose levels are aimed at beginner players who don't really play that much of video games, And lastly, The team chaotix levels are mission based and will most likely attract the attention Of more advanced players. Some levels and bosses too can give you some trouble, Like the hang castle or the egg emperor, But It Is Sega, So what to expect guys? But If you can get over that, Then the game shouldn't really give you that much of a hard time, I mean really, We play video games not only to have fun and be entertained, But to be challenged and experienced!

Overall-8.9/10
If I were you, I would totally buy this game regardless If you are a fan of the classics or not! But anyways, Let's get to the score! I gave this game an 8.9 because It Is original, Fun, challenging, long, filled with depth and over sorts of stuff to do, And It brings sonic back to His roots without changing anything that the sonic games will always maintain! So anyways, This Has been RedHotToddy's 128th review, and well, see you guys later! I am just two reviews Away from achieving My somewhat main goal, And I want to thank some of my close friends on the vizzed board! Barathemos and Razor-987, They have always loved my reviews and commented nice things about them which encourage me even more to keep making them! But as we were saying, Bye guys! I hope you guys will still keep up with my reviews because each one after the last just gets bigger and bigger and filled with more and more details and such! But anyways, Bye guys! See you later! I love you all! I am not joking about that!