Review by Clement Chan -
Sonic Adventure is a truly advanced
game that I have ever played. It's simply... fun! SonicTeam
really deserved a very cool award from me if I have one, they had
spent all of their five years on it and the results are worth it,
producing a cool game like this! I won't give any game a score of
10 unless it impress me very much.
Graphics - 10
Sonic Adventure really deserves Best Dreamcast Game Graphics
Award, if there is such award. The graphics are highly detailed
in perfect 3D and you can roam about everywhere and enjoy the
amazing graphics. Of course, the most beautiful graphics I found
in the game is the FMV in the beginning. There are some graphics
look really real, the sunlight in Emerald Coast. Another good
thing about this game, you can see morning, evening and night and
the graphics are pretty realistic! The time changes according how
the adventure goes, though. There are also hidden graphics that
are very hard to notice. If you look around carefully in certain
Action Stages like Windy Valley, IceCap and Speed Highway, youll
see the dandelions blowing off its seeds, characters breath
and many more to see! I think SonicTeam has gone through every
single Adventure Field and Action Stage to make super-graphics
game like this!
Sound 10
One of the features that I like about this game is, the character's
voice. Rarely there are games that features voice for characters.
The voices really match each characters. The background
musics are really enjoyable. You can just start an Action Stage,
turn on the volume a bit and then sleep while hearing it!
Gameplay 10
The controls are pretty easy and you can remember it, I can tell
you. The game is pretty fast but you'll soon get used to it,
within an hour. If youre a person who had motion sickness,
dont play it! Youll be blurred and stunned by it!
Some stages are a bit hard while some are easy. Emerald Coast is
the stage that I liked the most. It reminds me of the older Sonic
games. Every character has its own mission so you can test out
your controls on it. Sonics mission is to get to the end,
Tails is to race with Sonic or Eggman, Knuckles must find three
Master Emeralds shards and Amy must get to the end of the
stage while avoiding the crazy robot. Big is to fish out Froggy
and E-102 is to reach his goal under a certain amount of time.
Amazing, isnt it? How this game can fit just into a
Gigabyte Disc, I dont know!
You can also hook through the Internet and download files from
the official Sonic Adventure website or other websites to change
the appearance or features into the game (make sure you have a
bit of free space in your faithful memory card!). Example,
downloading the Tremble Park file will change the appearance of
Twinkle Park into a ghostly place. Christmas download will make
Christmas trees appear almost everywhere in the Adventure Fields
and theres a bit of snow! Totally awesome! Also, you can
exchange your Chao over the Net or post your best times
there when they have a contest!
Story 10
This time, the story takes place in the planet Earth instead of
Mobius. Dr. Robotnik (or Eggman as the characters call him) is
back and works on his disastrous plans. He woke up the mysterious,
liquid creature, Chaos and planned to give him the most powerful
essence, the 7 Chaos Emeralds. Once he got all of them, he will
turn Stations Square into rubble and thats
where Sonic must try and make his plans fail by getting the Chaos
Emeralds first!
Also, there is a mysterious connection between Chaos and the
other echidna girl. What could it be? In every characters
adventure, there will a short story about them and it could be
quite confusing if you dont pay attention properly and as
you progress, youll begin to understand more. So, find out
yourself.
Controls - 10
The controls are simple to use and you will get used to the 3D
environment quickly (if you are very used to 2D graphics like me).
A simple two clicks of buttons and you can hit an enemy
immediately. Very simple!
Replay 10
You can replay Sonic Adventure all over again and I guarentee you,
you won't get bored. I have even started a new game and completed
it for over 5 times already! The best feature on this game is the
virtual-pet like creature, Chao. You can take care of it, play
with it, make sure it don't get sad, race with other Chao and etc.
Depending on how you raise it, this Chao can transform into all
sorts of shapes, sizes and colours making it more fun to see its
results. This unique creature has its own secrets deep inside too,
to keep you occupied forever! Also, there are 130 Emblems to
collect which you can obtained by completing the Action Stages
and Mini-Games goals and in Adventure Fields. Some are
really hard and youll need practise. As the saying goes,
practice makes perfect! If you can get all of them, you're a
Sonic Adventure master!
Overall 10
Sonic Adventure is very addictive. Once you play, you'll always
want more. The only bad thing I found about this game is, camera
problems. These problems are minor and not as serious as you
thought. If you want my opinion, which first game you should buy,
choose Sonic Adventure! You wont want to miss this awesome
game! It is worth every single cent you spend on it and get it
quick, before it ran out of stock! You can thank me later.
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