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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).
- 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.
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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
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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 |
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Topic | # Posts | Last Post |
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A New Day Begins New Adventure | 84 | DJP Mom (11375) Aug 24, 2007 |
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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.)
will.i.am (1079) added Sonic Heroes (GameCube) on Jan 03, 2004
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