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Sonic Adventure

Sonic Adventure is an HD port of Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. This version was released on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Some features of Director's Cut didn't make it to this port, like the…

55 15 September 2010

Sonic Adventure is a platform developed by Sonic Team, released 15 September 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Sonic Adventure is

Sonic Adventure is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2010. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Doctor Robotnik seeks a new way to defeat his longtime nemesis Sonic and conquer the world. During his research, he learns about an entity called Chaos—a creature that, thousands of years ago, helped to protect the Chao and the all-powerful Master Emerald, which balances the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds. When a tribe of echidnas sought to steal the power of the Emeralds, breaking the harmony they had with the Chao, Chaos retaliated by using the Emeralds' power to transform into a monstrous beast, Perfect Chaos, and wipe them out. Before it could destroy the world, Tikal, a young echidna who befriended Chaos, imprisoned it in the Master Emerald along with herself. Eggman releases Chaos…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 1 players.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Adventure is the 237th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Tennis DX in 2010. Its critic score of 55 is 16 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Sonic Adventure holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Sonic Adventure launched on 15 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Sonic Adventure — frequently asked questions

When did Sonic Adventure come out?
Sonic Adventure was released on 15 September 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Does Sonic Adventure have multiplayer?
Yes. Sonic Adventure supports multiplayer.

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