Sonic Heroes (GameCube)

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Description

Sonic Heroes is a 3D action-platformer in which the player takes control of a team of 3 characters, each with a special ability - speed, fly and power. The objective of the game is to race through levels as quickly as possible whilst defeating enemies and collecting rings. Your time, rings and enemies defeated make up a point system, and more points mean a higher rank on the level. There are 4 teams of characters each with their own changes to the gameplay:

• Team Sonic is the intermediate difficulty featuring Sonic (speed), Tails (fly) and Knuckles (power).
• Team Shadow is the hard difficulty featuring Shadow (speed), Rogue (fly) and E-123 Omega (power).
• Team Rose is the easy difficulty featuring Amy (speed), Cream (fly) and Big (power).
• Team Chaotix features new mission-based objectives with Espio (speed), Charmy (fly) and Vector (power).

The game features 4 modes:

• Story Mode, giving players the opportunity to play through levels as the story progresses.
• Challenge Mode, giving players the opportunity to replay levels that they have previously cleared in Story Mode
• Battle Mode, a multiplayer mode where players can race or battle each other
• Tutorial Mode, teaching players the basics of playing the game.

Screenshots

Promo Images

Alternate Titles

• "索尼克英雄" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "ソニックヒーローズ" -- Japanese spelling
• "소닉히어로즈" -- Korean spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Hedgehogs
• Game feature: BGM / music player
• Game feature: FMV / cutscene player
• Game feature: Original theme song
• Middleware: CRI
• Middleware: RenderWare
• Nintendo Player's Choice releases
• PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
• PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
• Software Pyramide releases
• Sonic the Hedgehog universe
• Technology: amBX
• Xbox Classics releases
• Xbox Platinum Family Hits releases

User Reviews

Far better then many give it credit ...	Kartanym (12705)
A New Day Brings New Adventure	Rachael Blenkin (2)
Horrid, half-assed, failed attempt at resurrecting a dying breed of game.	AG Wolf (277)	unrated
Not the best but fun	Sonicfanx (10)
4 teams and 12 high speed characters!	knuckles-rox (11)	unrated
STUIPD GAME	Jesse Nitschke (2)

Critic Reviews

64 Power / big.N / N Games	Jan, 2004	90 out of 100	90
The Video Game Critic	Mar 09, 2004	B+	83
N-Zone	Mar 02, 2004	83 out of 100	83
Power Sonic	Feb 28, 2015	8 out of 10	80
IGN	Jan 05, 2004	8 out of 10	80
GamePro (US)	Jan 02, 2004	4 out of 5	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Feb 06, 2004	14 out of 20	70
Nintendo Difference	Mar 12, 2004	13 out of 20	65
Console Obsession	Jul 25, 2015	6 out of 10	60
1UP	May 09, 2004	5.5 out of 10	55

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
A New Day Begins New Adventure	84	DJP Mom (11375) Aug 24, 2007

Trivia

Milestone

This was the first Sonic game to be released on multiple platforms (Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox) simultaneously.

Team Chaotix

Team Chaotix is made up of three of the main characters from Knuckles' Chaotix.

PlayStation 2 version

The PlayStation 2 version is infamous for being poorly optimised and performing badly due to the weaker nature of the PS2's hardware when compared to the Xbox or GameCube. The PS2 version runs in 30fps with additional frame drops as opposed to the GameCube and Xbox's 60fps. The PS2 version also suffers from a lower draw distance and longer loading times. Another oddity exclusive to the American PS2 version is that, on menu screens, O acts as the primary "enter" button and X acts as the back button, similarly to how Japanese PlayStation games are controlled; the European version uses the correct button layout.

Related Web Sites

• Jun Senoue : Official Fansite (A fan site about the Composer of the music from the Sonic Heroes game.)
• Sonic Heroes (The official site of the game.)
• == Sonic Heroes == Unofficial Site (A fan site with screenshots, team profiles, and reviews.)
• Tough Team (The European Official Site of the game.)