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Its even worse when you consider that you have to play through the same stages four times (once with each team) to get the real ending.

Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 - the first Sonic games in 3D - were a bit shit.

Sure they had their moments, but they were hardly the must-have masterpieces you expect from a company mascot.

Eschewing all the woeful adventure elements of recent titles, Sonic Heroes puts the focus back on breakneck dashes through mad.

The gameplay is still remarkably simple - go fast, collect rings, bop the occasional robot on the head.

The key difference here is that instead of running solo, you now control a team of three characters.

Sonic is fast, Tails can fly, Knuckles can punch through blocks.

That ill-conceived title unsuccessfully tinkered with the traditionally speedy Sonic experience by forcing players to suffer through tedious crystal excavation and hovering stages that simply sucked.

Nearly every review (be it critical or from lil Jimmy the consumer) boiled down to I just want to run Thankfully, Sonics handlers listened: Heroes has the hog doin what he does best in a rewarding return to form.

Heroes basic gameplay echoes the classic, side-scrolling Sonics of yore, but with an interesting twist--team play.

The four teams you can choose from have minor differences (see below), but with each one, youre simultaneously controlling three characters: one speedster, one powerhouse, and an annoying, chirpy one that flies.

A simple button press switches leadership among the three guys, and the clever level designs basically guarantee that youll have to switch leaders in order to break a few walls and soar over pits to succeed.

This constant switching seems confusing, clunky, and forced at first, but after a few levels, it becomes natural, and its fun to experiment with different leaders to find new paths.

Plus, by the time the gameplay clicks, the Milquetoast early levels give way to wildly cool areas that have you spinning through giant pinball machines, reversed-gravity haunted mansions, and stratospheric airship armadas.

Heroes offers a surprisingly long experience (for a Sonic game), and its one that gets better the longer you play.

In classic Sonic fashion, the game looks spectacular, with dazzling Day-Glo colors, ultrasmooth movement (well, on GC and Xbox at least--scope the sidebar), and trippy effects: Every single stage explodes with breakneck speed, insane loops, absurd corkscrews, and other gravity-defying razzamatazz.

So, whats not to like Mostly stuff that no 3D Sonic game has managed to get right, including an annoyingly touchy camera, lame bosses, and an overabundance of deaths caused by falling off edges.

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These issues seem almost endemic to the series at this point, but itd be nice if a future update could clear em up.

Still, dont let these quibbles (or the hateful grumblings of the other reviewers) deter you--Heroes is worthy.

Hes here to stay.

Thankfully, most of what made the Adventure games a bore--in particular, everything that didnt star Sonic or Tails--is gone, and as a result, Heroes plays more like the balls-to-the-wall Sega Genesis Sonics.

Its even got a classic-style casino stage, something that the previous 3D efforts didnt even dare to try.

Racing full speed through stages that take 10 or more minutes to complete while constantly switching characters for the most mundane of tasks becomes exhausting.

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