Sonic Adventure 2

Sonic Adventure 2 is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team USA and released in 2001. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube and PC (Microsoft Windows).

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 15 achievements to unlock.

Sonic Adventure 2 is the 79th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Chao Adventure 2 in 2001. Its critic score of 79 is 8 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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Sonic Adventure 2 holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 183 votes.

The main story runs about 7.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 20 hrs, roughly 2.7 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 @ 3.2 GHz/Athlon 64 3000+ or Equivalent & above, 1 GB RAM and 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 8600/AT Radeon HD3650) & above. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Sonic Adventure 2 launched on 19 June 2001, within three weeks of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street, Twisted Metal: Black and Bejeweled. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street, Twisted Metal: Black, Bejeweled.

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