Sonikku hiirôzu

Over a decade ago, a played an Animaniacs video game for the SNES. The game is a side-scroller (as with most games in the early-1990s). But instead of controlling a single character, I get to play a team of three characters. And as long as the one I control does not die, the other two will be fine.

And when I started playing Sonic Heroes, I was amazed to relived that beautiful Animaniacs experience. The difference between this game and the aforementioned one is that Sonic Heroes is a 3D game, and it has more features. As with the Animaniacs game, I get to play three characters. Each character has a set of moves for certain situations, and I could switch between them during a game.

Because of its uniqueness, I would consider Sonic Heroes a classic in the Sonic series. The games' developers perhaps wanted to try something different by having the player to play a group instead of an individual character.

Yeah, the game isn't perfect, but there's just no pleasing some people.

I've been an all time fan of Sonic, and I found this game really entertaining. The cameras are no where near as bad as people claim. The team gameplay was quite good(a change form tails getting lost all of the time on Sonic 2). The music was just all electric, now that rocks! The character voices were just perfectly fitting. This is (in my opinion) the best recent Sonic game.(okay, things do occasionally get corny)

I was totally new to the 3D Sonic world as I never owned a Dreamcast and didn't know anyone who owned one. So in my case, the new gameplay took some time to get used to(I don't know how many times I died on the first level then). After that it was way cool, computer games are about having fun. (oh, and if you pay attention, Shadow smiles. no, really!)

This game is up and down for me. It taked me a lot of time to accept this game. The history is meh, playable characters are OK but there are a lot of bugs and bad physics.

This is the first time I have played a Sonic game and I have not been disappointed. Well, almost not...

This is an exciting game with lots of combinations which teach the value of teamwork: for instance, get Tails to bring down a flying enemy and then get Knuckles to smash him to bits. Lovely, fast-pacing graphics accompany fast and furious situations.

My one complaint is the absence of any visible kind of Save option. There are obstacles in this game which are very difficult to overcome and it takes a lot of practice in order to do. Stage 4 of Team Sonic, for example, ends with you having to climb up a fast-flowing lava pit. If you die and wear out all available lives then you have to go through the whole Stage from the beginning, which can get repetitive and tedious.

It's not as if there is no time to save a game. There are times when the characters can get a respite so a game save is possible, and if most games such as Doom and American McGee's Alice can provide Save options for whenever a player chooses then I do not see why Sonic Heroes should be the exception.

Major design flaw here, Sega. It does not tempt me to buy more of your games.

This game was an improvement over the awful Sonic Adventure 2, but no by much. It has the potential to be more fun but is still crippled by horrible gameplay and bad camera problems. The switching between 3 characters, who each have 3 different abilities, became very annoying and the levels were all too alike and just seemed to be vaguely recycled levels of the 2 previous games.

As much as I liked the original Sonic Adventure I have to say that Sonic in 3D just doesn't work and doesn't feel right. The original Sonic platformers, plus the new Sonic Advance games are what the blue hedgehog is all about and it's worth investing your time in them if you're a serious Sonic Fan. Leave stuff like this game to the kiddies.