That wonky camera didn’t matter to players running laps in Sonic’s unshackled new shoes: No game before or since has marked such a giant leap forward in realizing the full potential that always lurked behind his speed demon skills. Team Sonic - including Knuckles, Tails, Amy Rose, and newcomers Big and Gamma - provided the mostly-familiar character framework, but just about everything else about Sonic Adventure felt incredibly, vibrantly new. Speed in three dimensions took on a whole new meaning in levels where Dreamcast players got to pick their path to the final goal, even as the game highlighted the early growing pains of a sometimes-tricky pivoting-camera system.
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Sonic Adventure is the title that brought SEGA’s speedy hero into full-scale 3D gaming, ballooning the wild graphical backdrops that defined the older 2D games’ visual appeal into a new, go-anywhere world that felt absolutely breathtaking at the time. Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)Ī screenshot from the game Sonic Adventure DX by SEGA. But it’s a safe bet that many of the revved-up memories that race through longtime fans’ heads actually harken to the indelible impression that the sized-up Sonic 2 bequeathed to SEGA’s marathon series. A lot of players peg their Sonic nostalgia to the very first game in the series, and for good reason. Though the console tech was the same as before, our blue hero just felt more dialed in for his second outing, gliding through bigger levels that showcased an evolved sense of cleverness and creativity in their blazingly color-saturated environments. And even though both Sonic games were made for the Genesis, Sonic 2 felt like a major next-level step up from the original.
2, Sonic’s first sequel arrived not long after its franchise-debut predecessor opened to floodgates to fandom.
It’s hard to describe today how fresh the second games in then-burgeoning series like Mario and Sonic felt when they landed - on the same hardware, no less - on the heels of their first blockbuster installments. A screenshot from the game Sonic the Hedgehog 2 by SEGA.
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