Sonic Adventure is a blast from start to finish.
User Rating: 9.1 | Sonic Adventure International DC
Sonic the Hedgehog has been one of those flagship game characters that everyone who knows anything about games has come to appreciate in some way or another. He's the "other" Mario. Never quite gathering the success or acclaim the fat-so plumber has rallied, Sonic fell in the back light for a while. But now that Sonic has made his first true jump to the next-generation and his in his first real adventure since Sonic 3 on the Sega Genesis, he's back, and he's as cool as ever. First impressions of Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast are sky high. Really, as good as they can be. Sonic Adventure successfully captures the speed and twitch-styled gameplay of the original Sonic titles while blending ideas borrowed from Mario 64 in the mix. Sonic Adventure's name is truly the most fitting way to describe the game. Though it's a platformer at heart, like the originals, Sonic Adventure has a lot of adventure based elements in it. A lot of the gameplay in Sonic Adventure revolves around you exploring the area, finding the next hot spot, or even just doing surpringly fun little mini games. Especially since the game allows you to play from multiple main vantage points, you're going to have a lot to do. Sonic Adventure isn't exactly a short game, but it isn't particularily long. It has a nice lengthed single player campaign at maybe 5-7 hours for each character to get 100%. That might be pushing it, but it really depends on the character you're playing as. From a technical standpoint, the game is really good. The graphics are vibrant, colorful, and fluid. In a game like this, that's the difference between night and day, it's incredibly fitting and nice-looking. The soundtrack is also pretty good, each area has its own special little song for it, and the opening theme is some hair-metal inspired rock epic, which is also kind of cool. The voice acting, on the other hand, is quite bad. Not bad enough to make you thoroughly disappointed in the game, but bad enough where there are a few times you'll hear Miles Tails or Knuckes talk and you might laugh a little bit. Sonic Adventure, overall, is a great game. There's nothing really bad to be said about it. A slightly longer campaign, or maybe more things to do would have been nice, but for what's there, it's really quite fun. This is the best launch platformer since, well, Mario 64 came out in 1996. It's pretty much the best Sonic game since the original three were on the Genesis. If you're a fan of the series or you're looking for a fast-paced game to show off the Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure is right up your alley.