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It's still fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this because I loved Sonic Adventure 2 for Gamecube. Sonic Adventure DX is a bit of a let down. The graphics look beautiful and most of the sound is great. But the controls are much more difficult in this game. In the Chao garden you'll often make mistakes trying to interact with your Chao. Instead of petting it you might accidentally spin away. The controls were much tighter in Sonic Adventure 2. Also, DX has a big slow down problem. In a game that is all about speed the screen comes to a crawl way too often. On the bright side, the characters look great, the levels look beautiful and it's still ultra fun to play. So...

Graphics: 4.5
Control: 2.5
Sound: 4.0
Fun Factor: 4.5

This Game is the BEST!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great remake of a great game!!! It is better than sonic adventure 2:battle's remake in so many ways! it has a way better way to do stages.in sonic adv. 2 they have a cheap uninteresting way to go between stages. it will show a movie and go on to the next stage. pretty boring no interaction. but in sonic adv. 1 you can explore three areas and go to your stages. They are 1.Station Square (the town that sonic lives in. stages include speed highway, emerald coast, casinopolis, and many others) 2.Mystic Ruins (this place is fun to explore and has many different sections in it.stages include windy valley, lost world, snow mountian, and many more!) 3.Egg Carrier (this is dr. robotnik a.k.a. eggman's ship. stages include sky deck , hot shelter, plane flying mini game, and a few bosses!) Those stages that I gave you are only sonic! hes only ONE character. thats not even all his stages! there are 5 more playable characters!!! including an ending game with super sonic!!! Its fun to explore the areas and play extra stuff. the goal is to get 130 emblems. as you get 20 emblems each time you get a new game gear game on the gamecube! that is only one bonus with the special features. There is a new mission mode to do various tasks throughout the areas! For this new remake the enhanced the chao compatability! you can get hero or dark chaos unlike in dreamcast!! They have the black market too! its a lot better than sonic adv. 2. The characters you can play as are Sonic(the one and only!), Tails(sonics sidekick), Knuckles(the master emerald guarder), Amy(if youve played sonic cd or soinc racing then you know her!), Big the Cat (a new character the made up. he fishes and thats about it. not very exciting unless you like staring at water.), E 102(a robot that robotnik made and hes bad at first but gets good after he sees wat robotnik treats his robots like and help from amy) BOTTOM LINE!!! IF YOU LIKE SONIC THE YOU'LL LOVE THIS GAME! WHEN I GOT IT FOR DREAMCAST I WAS SO EXCITED! I WAS JUST AS EXCITED ABOUT GETTING THIS! SONIC ADVENTURE 2 IS A GREAT GAME BUT THIS IS EVEN BETTER!!! THIS IS A ---MUST BUY--- IF YOUR A TRUE SONIC FAN!!!!!

The Sonic Saga Continues

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been a Sonic fan for quite a long time, so I expected this game to be pretty good.

Well, I was wrong. It. Was. Awesome. In earlier games, it was good, but, yes, repititive. This gives you a whole new outlook on the game. Sonic and his speed, Tails and his flying ability, Knuckles and his ever-continuing search for the Master Emerald shards, and then (finally) Amy Rose, whom I have known for quite some time to kick butt. I was waiting for her to come out of the comic... And don't forget Big and E-102! Two newer characters. Big's adventure was slightly... boring. I'm not fond of fishing, but it was a bit more entertaining than the real thing.. (I have no patience..)

And I loved how in the end it all made sense. With the flash backs and all, that was neat. *nod nod* Tikal and the chao backgrounds helped with the plot.

In conclusion, I must say that it was very very nice to see something new, yet familiar in a Sonic game.

Leona

(Don't forget the Chao!)

An excellent game with few flaws.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sonic Adventure will always be a classic in my mind and deserves a place in video game history as one of the best games of all time.Its even been compared to Super Mario 64. While the gameplay is just as solid and the soundtrack equally as wonderful(every character except Gamma has a special song at the end and theyre all great) this game is very original. You play as 6 characters and theyre all different and have their own levels though the names of these levels are the same.While it may not be as popular and succesful as Mario 64 was it is definitely a must have for any fan of platform games.Nuff said

A classic.One of the best games of all time.Period.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

While all the old levels and characters are in this game there are a few new finishing touches to make the whole experience worthwhile.That would be the slightly repolished graphics and the unlockable Game Gear games.Of the 12 or so games I only unlocked 2.The first Sonic Game Gear game which is very nice and Sonic Drift which is pretty fun but has terrible controls.If you bought this game for the Game Gear games alone you shouldnt have.They are very very hard to unlock and its easier just to buy an old Game Gear and those games or just buy a Game Boy Player and play the Sonic Advance games.
As for the story it is pretty interesting not as good as the story in Sonic Adventure 2 but still pretty entertaining especially the parts about Gamma.
The camera angles really arent that bad.I mean there were only 2 times in the whole game where the camera looked uneven.The graphics look a little better but still pretty much the same.Its just as fun as the sequel and the levels are more original because this game is the original.Okay enough talk its time for you to run out and buy this.Thanks.

I can lose the DreamCast at last!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's a wonderful thing when you favorite game is for an obsolite console and it gets remaid for your gamecube better than ever! This wonderful game is a must by for anyone. The story mode is expansive and identical to SonicAdventure, exept for slightly altered voice acting to impove quality. Did I mention they also fixed the graphics problems? They did, and now it looks beautiful! I can't explain it, you have to see the difference for your self! Plus there's the all new mission mode in which you run around the adventure field completing tasks, after you've finished that characters story of course. Plus, every 20 emblems you collect, you unlock one of the original sonic games to be played from the Mini-Games menu, which apears when you unlock the first game(Sonic the HedgeHog).
Even if you have to sell you bed to aford it, if you a sonic fan this one is a need not a want.

Amazing, F*cking Amazing (:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although Sonic Ad. 2 will always be my favorite Sonic game, I had a great time playing Sonic Ad. All it needed was better graphics, and Sega made that possible with this remake. But ever since Sonic Heroes, I've realized that the Sonic series has changed, probably for good. Sonic sadly isn't my favorite game franchise anymore. It's been overpowered by Final Fantasy.

A decent game brought down with way too many flaws.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Sonic series is a great one, and while Sonic Adventure was the real big deal back in 1999 on Sega's, unfortunately, short-lived Dreamcast console, it's been ported over the Nintendo's Gamecube for cash-in purposes 4 years later. Does it hold up? Well....yes and no.
The good: The game's textures, and sense of speed, for 1/3 of the time, hold up pretty well. The Sonic levels are easily the most enjoyable, and although only 10, truly are alot of fun when at high speeds. Sonic's levels are well-designed and fully recapture the excellence of the 2-D Blast-Processed Sonic from the early 90's, you will be hopping from one platform to the next with Sonic's homing attack, and you'll be racing down skyscrapers, get chased by a giant whale, snowboard away from a giant snowball down a mountain, somewhat Indiana-Jones-ish, and fight Robotnik till your heart's delight.
With the 6 characters, the game isn't without depth, and has a decent enough story for a Sonic fan, showing what happened to Knuckles' people, how the Chaos emeralds came to be along with the Master Emerald, this answers some questions.
Two other characters' games are also rather enjoyable - Tails' and Knuckles, I believe. Tails' levels play like smaller portions (the best portions) of Sonic's levels where you try to beat Sonic to the animal capsule at the end of the levels, and in one case, race Robotnik himself. Knuckles sets you off searching for shards of the master emerald, and this mode of play actually was alot less fun in the 2nd Sonic Adventure (ported to the GC before the first one though), actually, it wasn't fun at all in that one, but exploring the huge levels was alright. In this game, it's easier to find the emeralds with smaller levels, which are actually not too poorly designed, actually I really like 'em myself. And when you find the three emerald peices, you have an overwhelming sense of satisfaction - unlike a "Thank God, that's over!" that you get from the second game (first on Gamecube though). So these parts of the game were very good in 1999 and still hold up and are fun today. Now for the bad.......
The Bad: Three other unwanted characters are here, and are merely bit players in Sonic's universe, but make up 1/2 of this game anyway, and this half, while not unberable (Thanks to Gamma), is still pretty weak. Yeah, you get Amy Rose, the annoying, but ever-optimistic Sonic loving girl, who has to escape a robot and protect a bird in each level. The levels usually are Sonic's too, but Amy ain't speedy, and these linear levels ain't meant for walking. When the game slows down, it SLOWS DOWN, and the results aren't pretty, such is the case with Amy's game, and Big's. Big: What the heck? You get to fish, with some of the worst controls imaginable, and a terrible camera system (more on that sooner). The graphics in these FUN FISHIN ADVENTURES (not) don't hold up as well as the others either, featuring lame, lame, LAME, water effects. I know, this is a 1999 game, but still, they could've been enhanced for the GCN version to at least match the Second SA's (first SA on GCN though) water effects. Or it could be I'm just spoiled by Super Mario Sunshine. ANYWAYS, Next is E-102 Gamma whose game isn't bad, but not exactly all that good either. This style of lock on laser robot gameplay returned in the second SA (First on GCN though) and was much improved. In this one, you're timed and it's too slow. So it doesn't add up, so to speak.
Now for the many, many design flaws. Horrible collision detection. You'll be speeding along with Sonic on a loop, barely touch some rock or something, stick to it, and come to a full halt - losing all speed in the process. Not to mention, the game is plagued by places where you can fall through the floors, and in one occurance, walk through walls, or plunge to your death in botomless pits that you can't see, thanks to the game's poor camera. There was a new feature added to this port over its DC original for the camera (switch between auto & manual) but it doesn't help at all, and almost hampers this already bad camera problem even more.
The game's graphics are enhanced supposedly for this GC release, and the character models do look great (but are still behind their SA2:B counterparts), and the textures are still mighty fine, but the framerate. Holy hell. You'll be speeding along with Sonic at 60 fps, and the framerate will decide to dip to 30 fps, and sometimes even as low as 15. This is not right. I barely can notice slowdown in any other games, but this, indeed, is downright atrocious.
Now for the final flaw, and it may be the biggest of all: The adventure mode is split up into two parts: Action Stages and Adventure Fields. These adventure fields are pretty much hubs tying all these action stages together. Unfortunately, the adventure fields are very,very,very poorly designed, feature deplorable collision detection, and feel like a chore more than anything else. You'll have to find something somewhere to get to the next action stage, and this slows the action down, admittedly. Which is why it was fixed in the second game, that was the first on GCN, if I haven't told you already, harhar.

The Final Word:
So there you have it, this game could be actually worthy of a full 4 stars if it wasnt filled with so many dad-gum flaws. It's the glitchiest 3-D platformer out there, and since it was a cash-in after the huge success of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on the GCN, it reeks of being rushed. Still though, 1/2 of the main game is quite enjoyable, and the super sonic secret ending features a decent boss fight and a great resolution to all those loose ends the game leaves you with after you beat it with the six characters. Unfortunately, it's not worth it for the chores that are Big the Cat's game and Amy's. There are a few nice little extras added into this DX package, all the Sonic Game Gear games are unlocked with every 20 Sonic Emblems you get, and after you get all the emblems, you actually get a REWARD this time, unlike doing it all-for-naught back in 1999. And there's the mission mode which you can unlock after beating the characters' games. The mission mode doesn't do much though, the mission cards feature lots of typos, one of which I found funny (A PRISONER HAVE ESCAPED FROM BURNING HELL!), and are hard to find within the action stages you must find them in, and for one last kick in Sonic Adventure DX's head, the Game Gear games aren't all that great to begin with.
This game isn't bad, on its own merits, I'd actually go so far as to say it's good, but the glitches from the 1999 version aren't fixed, in fact there's more, and the game still get's dragged down by Sonic's less-than-fun buddies Big and Amy.
Still though, the game has alot of fun to it, the Sonic, Tails and Knuckles levels are great, and the boss fights are usually rather well-designed. The game isn't quite worth buying for all of those flaws it has, but it is worth renting at least, or just checking it out in general. But hey, Sonic Heroes is out now, and uh, that's got it all. :)

the same ol' s""t

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is, conceptually, a great idea. The game is among the blue hedgehog's finest, and the list of extra features is a Sonic fan's dream come true. Unfortunately, the execution looks and feels rushed, resulting in an unbalanced end product. As advertised, Sonic Adventure DX contains a slew of extras, like every Sonic game ever released on the Game Gear handheld, a brand-new Mission mode with 60 objectives, and Game Boy Advance connectivity options that let you raise Chao and unlock links for other GameCube Sonic games. Those are all cool features, but it's a different story when you get to the main portion of the game. The graphics have been polished with detailed textures, but the already problematic camera angles have gotten worse. The visuals also break up and have serious collision detection issues. These collision hiccups also adversely affect the controls, which otherwise feel good.
The audio has been spiced up with a Dolby Pro Logic II option, which sounds great albeit a tad too loud. The dialogue is the same as in the Dreamcast version and is not intended to be as goofy as it sounds, but it's certainly not irritating. Who would have thought a few years ago that virtually every major Sonic game would be available on the GameCube? Sonic Adventure DX is a deeper, more interesting game than its sequel, but the camera and collision problems hurt the overall experience. Only recommended for serious Sonic enthusiasts and completists.

a fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I know alot of people diss this game but think of when it came out. It basically was the example for modern graphics in games. Sure it's pretty easy but i think it's great for it's time.

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