Sonic Adventure DX (Director's Cut)

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An updated version of the Sega Dreamcast hit Sonic Adventure, the first appearance of Sonic and the crew in a full 3D action title.

Once again Sonic is up against Dr. Eggman, who had teamed up with Chaos for the ultimate opportunity to take over the world. Tails, Knuckles and Amy join in on the action, along with a host of new characters and enemies.

The GameCube version includes a brand new mission mode, a new Chaos Garden link up mode to the Game Boy Advance, and a host of mini-games including appearances of classic Game Gear Sonic adventures such as Tails' Skypatrol.

Includes the following games:

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  • 索尼克大冒险DX剪辑版 - Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Critics

Average score: 61% (based on 43 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.9 out of 5 (based on 60 ratings with 7 reviews)

The Dreamcast Ratings Are Alot More Accurate

The Good
This game is great, why do people hate it? Me and my friend love this game. We looked at reviews for the Dreamcast version "excellent all over", Gamecube one "Terrible", we went by the Dreamcast reviews. They were right. Sonic was fun, Miles was fun, Knuckles is great many people hate it but I love treasure hunting, Amy is ok, Big was good and E-102 Gamma was good. Good graphics, sound and Gameplay. This has music from the band Crush 40, they make the game even better.

The Bad
The only bad thing is that there were a few glitches that I ran into, WHO CARES?

The Bottom Line
Good, if you hate this, you hate Sonic and that is like impossible. Great if you like Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Sonic Heroes you will love this, you can run around 3 adventure fields that have many levels on them. Station Square, Mystic Ruins and Dr. Eggman's Egg Carrier.

GameCube · by knuckles-rox (8) · 2005

A good, dated-looking game.

The Good
Sonic is known for fast-paced stages, great music, cheesy acting, and furries. Well, this game has pretty much all of that.

The story is just like every other Sonic game: Oh noes! Someone is causing havoc! Who will save us? (enter Sonic)

And you get where this is going. However, I do like how the story is told from six different perspectives. But all in all, the story is pretty generic.

The gameplay is fun and fast paced... sort of. You see, there are six characters you can play as, and, like-wise,six different game types:

Sonic: Fast-paced Platformer Tails: Racer-platformer Hybrid Knuckles: Treasure Hunt Amy: Escape your stalk- I mean enemy. Gamma: Platformer-shooter Hybrid Big: ...fishing... yeeah.

Now, I shall go over each mode and say my opinions of them.

Sonic: Best stages of the game. What you do is simple: just finish the level! Like all Sonic games! These parts do have some cheap deaths and frustrations awaiting, but are good fun over all.

Tails: Same as Sonic's, only you can fly and you have to beat Sonic to the end. These can also be pretty fun, especially since you can fly.

Knuckles: You must look for the missing pieces of the Master Emerald. These stages are complete bull crap. They are slow, boring, and very, VERY confusing. It's useless. Forget about it! (hint hint)

Amy: These aren't too bad, really. In fact... they're kind of fun? Basically, you have to outrun this robot pedophile. Or as I'll call him here, Pedo-Bot. Now, Pedo-Bot works for Eggman, and Amy finds this bird that has... let's just say it has jewelry ;) Anyway, Pedo-Bot must get this "jewelry" and give it to Eggman. You must prevent this. In the stages, you can stun him by whacking him with your hammer. Okay, this is too long.

Gamma: In a sudden twist of story, you play as one of Eggman's new robots, E-102(I think) Gamma. It is basically a platform shooter. Kind of like Contra. Except it's not. I think this mode is good, but not great.

Big: I. HATE. THESE. STAGES. Yeah, caps lock. I'm a man now. Well anyway, you play as the slow-ass, fat-ass, gay, purple cat named Big whose only friend is a frog named... Froggy. And all you do is fish for your lost friend. FISH! Why, Sega? Why? Why? Whyyyyy?

So, overall, the gameplay is good.

The opening cutscene, as well as the few other CGI cutscenes, are very good. They are well detailed. The other graphics...well...see the bad section.

The voice acting, like I said, is cheesy. It's not too bad, but not great, either.

The music is wonderful.

"Open Your Heart" , the main theme, is a great song.

Sonic's theme is also great. Some say it has a GnR feel, and I think I agree.

Tail's theme really doesn't do him justice. He should have a better theme!

Knuckle Head's theme is garbage. I already hate rap, but his theme makes How I Could Just Kill a Man seem like Ride the Lighting!

Amy's theme is catchy but makes NO sense at all. I mean one of the lyrics are something like,"It was so cute, I just had to shave it." ...erm... (disturbing silence)

Gamma's theme(which is instrumental) actually pulls at my heart strings, something few songs accomplish with me.

Big's theme is the best thing about Big, but it still sucks.

The rest of the sound track is amazing as well.

Finally, there is the fact that, when you get 20 emblems, you get an old Sonic game (all on the Game Gear). These are a nice edition, making this game an even better deal. Granted, some of the games suck balls and you could get almost all of them on a copy of Sonic Mega Collection Plus, but it's still a nice addition.

The Bad
Now, as I said, the gameplay is good. But the Big stages are HORRIBLE! Absolute garbage. The character himself is not exactly what I call like-able.

I said that the CGI cutscenes looked good, right? Well, the in game graphics are... terrible. I'm not even a graphics whore, but these graphics SUCK! The mouth movements are terrible, especially with Dr. Eggman. The textures look like they belong on N64! This is unacceptable! The frame rate is a bit better than the graphics, though. But, hey, graphics don't make a game. I'm talking to you, Halo fan-boys.

The Chao Garden is not very good. Now don't get me wrong. The Chao Garden in the sequel is fantastic. But this version seems very watered down. VERY watered down.

The Mission mode can be very confusing and hard. On the other hand, some are just confusing. Finding the cards are a real pain in the ass, too.

There are a few other minor problems, but these are too minor to type about.

The Bottom Line
Overall, this game is a great addition to your GameCube collection. You will have a ball for sure. Just don't go too slow :)

GameCube · by Deleted (197) · 2010

Excellent way to experience the classic Sonic Gang.

The Good
SAdx allows players to follow the same story through six different perspectives and continue adventuring through Mission and Trial Modes. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are reunited against Robotnik, AKA Eggman, along with the perky Amy and two new friends, Big the Cat and E-102 Gamma.

The Bad
Aside from difficult to control camera angles and brief storylines with Big and Gamma, the game leaves little to be desired. However, the storylines of each of the six characters overlap, leaving questions as to what the real story is. Each character tells his/her own version of the story, as if three little kids were arguing over who broke the kitchen window. Did Tails defeat Eggman's first contraption, or did Knuckles? Did Sonic win or lose the fistfight with Knuckles, or did Tails perform the fight all along? We just can't tell who's got the true angle, although we can all just assume that Sonic is the real hero.

The Bottom Line
SAdx is yet another great game featuring everybody's favorite super-sonic blue hedgehog, Sonic. And, though there is always room for improvement, Sonic Adventure DX has exceeded my own personal expectations and gone past the limit to prove once again that Sonic is indeed the fastest and greatest Hedgehog Hero of them all!

GameCube · by Jessi Matyas (4) · 2003

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Trivia

You may recognize the music in the third part of Windy Valley : it is in fact the music of the level Green Grove in Sonic 3D.

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Game added July 3, 2003. Last modified January 4, 2024.