Sonic Heroes

Score: 7.5
Developer: Sonic Team
Publisher: Sega
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"Sonic Heroes strips out a lot of the shooting and hunting stuff found in the Sonic Adventure games, but it retains the large cast of characters. The game gets away with this by giving you control of three characters at once and dividing the characters up into four different teams--Team Sonic, Team Dark, Team Rose, and Team Chaotix. Each team member has his or her own strengths, and your abilities as a team change depending on which character you have set as the team leader. The team members are color-coded for easy reference, so blue characters have the most speed, yellow characters can fly, and red characters can bust through blocks that are otherwise impenetrable."

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Let's be fair: Sonic has been struggling with the transition to 3D since his first real next-generation game, Sonic Adventure, was released back in 1999. Sonic Team has moved one step closer to perfecting the formula with Sonic Heroes, which is the fastest and most authentic 3D Sonic experience we've seen yet. The Sonic games have always been about speed first and everything else second, and thankfully Heroes strips out a lot of the peripheral stuff seen in the last couple of games and focuses on fast, fast, fast. Works for us.

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