#SONIC HEROES LEVELS SERIES#

The team members are color-coded for easy reference, so blue characters have the most speed, yellow characters can fly, and red characters can bust through blocks that are otherwise impenetrable. Each team member has his or her own strengths, and your abilities as a team change depending on which character you have set as the team leader. The game gets away with this by giving you control of three characters at once and dividing the characters up into four different teams-Team Sonic, Team Dark, Team Rose, and Team Chaotix. Sonic Heroes strips out a lot of the shooting and hunting stuff found in the Sonic Adventure games, but it retains the large cast of characters. Sonic Heroes drops the adventure and picks up some speed. Sonic Heroes strips away a lot of the elements that slowed down the Sonic Adventure backpedals on a lot of the design decisions made in the Sonic Adventure games, and though it still exhibits many of the camera and control issues that vexed Sonic's previous forays into 3D, it's truer to its 2D roots than any other 3D Sonic game before it.

#SONIC HEROES LEVELS SERIES#

However, the transition from 2D to 3D was a hard one for Sonic, and the series lost a lot of its focus in the process by trading in speed for action adventure elements and introducing an unnecessary-and unnecessarily large-supporting cast of characters. As a result, one of the most visceral franchises of the 16-bit era was born. So, instead of cooking up another hop-happy Mario clone, they focused their efforts on speed.

41В million copies sold by 2007.When the folks at Sonic Team were in the process of creating the original Sonic the Hedgehog, they knew they couldn't beat Mario at his own game. Despite mixed reviews, the game was a major commercial success, with 3. Critics, however, derided Sonic Heroes for not addressing the problems of previous series games, such as poor camera controls and voice acting. Reviewers also highlighted its graphic design and detailed environments and textures. They praised the game's focus on fast gameplay and noted its similarities to the series' original 2D entries, a choice that some considered an improvement from the Sonic Adventure games. Sega released Sonic Heroes in Japan in December 2003 and worldwide in early 2004. The team revived elements not seen since the Genesis Sonic games, such as special stages and the Chaotix characters.

The team wanted Sonic Heroes to appeal beyond Sonic series fans and so designed a game that did not depend on the continuation of its predecessors. Sonic Team USA's Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka led the game's 20-month development. The game was the first multi-platform Sonic game, produced for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Windows, and Xbox platforms. Sonic Heroes abandons the action-adventure and exploration-based gameplay of its predecessors Sonic Adventure (1998) and Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) and instead returns to the linear style of Sega Genesis-era Sonic games. Within each level, the player switches between the team's three characters, who each have unique abilities, to overcome obstacles. The player races a team of series characters through levels to amass rings, defeat robots, and collect the seven Chaos Emeralds needed to defeat Doctor Eggman. Sonic Heroes is a 2003 3D platform game in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series.

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