Sonic Heroes
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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.
Spellings
- ソニックヒーローズ - Japanese spelling
- 索尼克英雄 - Chinese spelling (simplified)
- 소닉히어로즈 - Korean spelling
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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Credits (PlayStation 2 version)
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Reviews
Critics
Average score: 70% (based on 48 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 83 ratings with 11 reviews)
The Good
Well it's a sonic game, it's fun,it's got just the right number of levels,it's got a good story line,the bosses are fun,above all it's FUN!
The Bad
Well some of the levels are a bit to hard,doing the same levels over with different teams is some times boring.
The Bottom Line
well don't pay 50 bucks for it,but if you can get it for 30 buck get it,this game was a bit of a disappointment for me but still was fun I find myself playing it again and again(it's a classic).
GameCube · by Sonicfanx (9) · 2004
A New Day Brings New Adventure
The Good
The graphics and design areas. The graphics are just amazing. The gameplay sometimes makes me feel dizzy and sick, after watching Team Dark use Chaos Control, that is.
Team Sonic are my true heroes. I like controlling Sonic, as he can run faster then ever before. Although, Shadow runs ten times faster then him. I'm always the Speed typed character on Level 3.
I also liked the return of the Chaotix. Vector is the best character out of that team. He makes Esipo do all of the work and make him agree with him. Charmy seems to be just like Tails and Cream.
The Bad
At first, in Knuckles Chaotix, Charmy was a sixteen year old, and in this game he is only six. Sega have taken ten years off his age.
It's too bad, that they didn't add a replay mode after the action stage, like there is in Sonic Riders.
The Bottom Line
Sonic Heroes is a game for everyone.
Team Sonic: People who are advanced in playing video games.
Team Dark: Out standing players.
Team Rose: People who are new to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, or younger players.
Team Chaotix: The same as Team Sonic, I guess.
GameCube · by Rachael Blenkin (1) · 2007
The Good
Nothing
The Bad
THE GOD DAMN GAME IS SO HARD I CANNOT GET PASSED LEVEL 4 POWER PLANT AS TEAM SONIC BY THE LAVA PART I HAD GOD DAMN HELP ON IT TWICE AND STILL I CANT GOD DAMN GET PASSED IT ON GRAND METROPOLIS AS TEAM SHADOW I CANNOT GET PASSED IT ON SEASIDE HILL AS TEAM CHAOTIX AND CANT GET PASSED LOST JUNGLE AS TEAM ROSE
I MIGHT AS WELL JUST FUCKING GIVE UP ON THE SON OF A BITCH GAME THIS GAME IS NO FUN WHEN YOURE NO GOOD AT IT WHICH I KNOW IM THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS WORLD WHO CANT GET PASSED THOSE LEVELS AND ITS PISSING ME OFF I HAVE LOST ALOT OF PATIENCE WITH THAT GAME
IM THINKING OF SELLING THE SON OF A BITCH GAME OR TEARING IT UP AND CUSSING THE SONIC TEAM OUT
The Bottom Line
BAD UGLY STUIPD ENOUGH TO BE SHAME AT ALL THE TEAM CHARACTERS
GameCube · by Jesse Nitschke (1) · 2004
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.
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Related Sites +
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== Sonic Heroes == Unofficial Site
A fan site with screenshots, team profiles, and reviews. -
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. -
Tough Team
The European Official Site of the game.
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Game added by will.i.am.
PlayStation 3 added by Charly2.0. Windows added by Kabushi.
Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Alaka, ~~, Grandy02, Rik Hideto, Deleted.
Game added January 4, 2004. Last modified March 3, 2024.