Sonic Rivals 2
Sonic Rivals 2 is a platforming game with 2D gameplay in a 3D environment where you race another character to the finish line of each stage, just as the first game. Characters still obtain various power ups…
Sonic Rivals 2 is a fighting developed by Backbone Entertainment, released 13 November 2007 on PlayStation Portable.
What Sonic Rivals 2 is
Sonic Rivals 2 is a fighting game developed by Backbone Entertainment and released in 2007. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Chao have disappeared and Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower immediately get on the case to find them. It turns out that Eggman Nega (once again masquerading as Doctor Eggman) has stolen the Chao and concealed them inside a haunted mansion. His plan is to feed them to an inter-dimensional beast called the "Ifrit" who needs to eat them to become invincible . After that, he plans to release the Ifrit into the world in order to destroy it. However, to open the portal to the Ifrit's world, the seven Chaos Emeralds are required. Eggman Nega secretly hires Rouge the Bat to collect the Chaos Emeralds. The Master Emerald has also gone missing (again) and Knuckles the Echidna teams up…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Rivals 2 is the 186th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic X in 2007. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Rivals 2 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sonic Rivals 2 launched on 13 November 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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