Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure is a 3D platformer video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The player can control six characters from the Sonic universe, each with their own gameplay and point of view of the story. The…
Sonic Adventure is an adventure developed by Sonic Team, released 23 December 1998 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Sonic Adventure is
Sonic Adventure is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team and released in 1998. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube and PC (Microsoft Windows).
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 helped to protect the Chao and the all-powerful Master Emerald thousands of years ago. 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 and Sonic and his friends must act against Eggman's…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Adventure is the 64th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic in 1998. 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.
How it was received
Sonic Adventure holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average. Players rate it 61, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 33,339.8 hrs, roughly 4762.8 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Sonic Adventure launched on 23 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Adventure yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Dlc
Quick answers
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