I played Sonic Unleashed and it is exactly the same as this. If they just let you skip to the action levels (the Sonic ones, not the Were Hog crap) it would have been alright, but they pad the game with a bunch of crap that I didn't want to play so it sits unfinished on my shelf.

Oh how I <3 this fame so much. Got it for one my old birthdays back in the day

The deeper this game can be buried, the better.

This game is amazing, when I first got it my mind was blown at the sheer speed of it.
 
Great game! Holds up pretty well I think.

" will you do the smae thing for the PS2 next year? "

KILLER WHALE!!!!!

will you do the smae thing for the PS2 next year?

" I think the ketamine just kicked in"      HAHAHAHAHAHA

Sonic Adventure was an awesome game I still love it :)

And Sonic is just one more reason why women get their tubes tied.

Second highest rated Dreamcast game on Gamspot, out of the bunch they showed, expect for Soul Caliber. 
I don't feel good about that.

Sonic Adventure was fun I got it at launch and played through it more than once. You guys are thinking about it too much.

I just wish they'd make a chao adventure game.

I played this game until the day my Dreamcast broke. Jesus Christ... The memories.

whats funny how in ten years they'll be playing games from today and saying the same shit like, 0oh man these controls are so foreign yacck!

I played Sonic Unleashed and it is exactly the same as this. If they just let you skip to the action levels (the Sonic ones, not the Were Hog crap) it would have been alright, but they pad the game with a bunch of crap that I didn't want to play so it sits unfinished on my shelf.

Brad + a 10-year old control system = priceless

I too have fond memories of this game but, yeah, it is quite dated today. I don't remember the voice acting and animations being so egregiously bad.

This game was the start of the half-assed gimmick crap that Sonic games are known for now with the stupid adventuring part of the game. The game would've probably been 10x better if it let you skip to the next action stages, as everything is awful crap that signaled the downfall of the Sonic series that was to come.

hopefully the new 2d sonic game that was just announced brings sonic back into the limelight in the proper way like it should have been done right after this game came out. after making this sega should have realized sonic needs to stay in 2d.

you can die in the first level of sonic adventure!!!!???????? 
braaaaaaaaad, dude!!!!

great graphics when it came out, i was amazed.  Especially with the grass and sand textures.  And that whale!  Remember, this game came out a year before in Japan.

I think i agree with brad, in that the action sequences and set pieces look like alot of fun.  
However i think the sonic games should have died along with the dreamcast. Although i could be up for some kind of downloadable 3d sonic platforming. 

This really is a terrible quicklook. Why all the sonic hate. I know its fashionable but its not appropriate. At least not when you are looking back at old games for an old system. I don't know how many dumb old games Jeff and Vinny look back on with fond memories, but its alot. Its weird to see the GB crew start a series of dreamcast retrospectives by dumping all over sonic adventure. This was a good game at the time and can still be alot of fun. It's not the games fault if you aren't good at the controls the first time you play it. You know just once id like to see professional reviewers talk about a sonic game without going out of their way to let me know how much they hate sonic and think all of his games are crap.  
 
Alot of people grew up with the genesis and not the snes. I've been gaming since the early 90's and ill be honest. I had a genesis and i love sonic games. I dont really like mario games that much. I think that the stages and music in the 2d sonic games were far and away better than the snes mario ones. Sonic games made me love video games as a kid and nothing, nothing that reviewers say now or some bad new sonic game that is produced will somehow go back in time and make the old sonic games bad. They were great and they will always be great.
 
Why did you even bother making this quicklook?

" @Yelix said:

" Yeah, if you were to stack up this game and it's sequel side by side today, the sequel is way better. Less gimmicky bullshit, better graphics, better music, better story (not saying much), better controls, better camera, and more replay value with multiple storylines. "

Really? I thought the second Sonic Adventure was terrible compared to this game. I actually quite enjoyed this game, probably the last sonic game that I did. (Granted I've barely touched Sonic game's after Adventure 2.) "

Man, this brought me back. I was ten years old when I first played this game. My friend and I couldn't afford a memory card, so we would beat this game every damned night just to see Super Sonic.
 
Ah, the golden years...

Takes me back. Retro QL ftw.

lol this game is great :-D, you guys aren't too good at it  though xD

Man, fucking HATERS.  Sonic Adventure 1 is awesome!  It hasn't held up very well, sure, but it's still got some great levels.  Sky Deck 4 lyfe.

I love this game.  I was amazed at how well the transition to 3D went.

I played the special edition of this on the Gamecube, and I really enjoyed it. I remember beating it with Tails, but as Sonic there was a point where the game screwed up and I couldn't continue to the last level.

I played this when it was new and reacted JUST how Ryan and Brad did in this video... without all the future speak. Time didn't change a damn thing about this game for me.

I can't believe how many people on this site aren't really old enough to have experienced how awesome this was at the time, and be crushed be the hindsight.

oh god, the hotel part gave me a headache. :(

I am one of the few people that loved and continue to love this game....
 
I know the world areas are a bit meh but I think the game worked well enough and is deffo the best 3D sonic game that has been made.
 
I am not all that young (23) so do remember getting this when it actually came out; and I really enjoyed the set up. Playing through the game as the different characters and how everything made sense once you had finished it with all of them (like why sonic only fights certain numbers of the main boss; because tales / knuckles fight the others )...
 
I unno; I still have fond memories and watching this just makes me want to dig out my DC and play it again....

" Yeah, if you were to stack up this game and it's sequel side by side today, the sequel is way better. Less gimmicky bullshit, better graphics, better music, better story (not saying much), better controls, better camera, and more replay value with multiple storylines. "

Oh man, nostalgia empire right here.

Haha the eyebrows are awesome :P
I really love Sonic Adventure 2 though, cept for the stages where you play as Knuckles, rouge , Tails, or Dr. Eggman....Lulz
 
Pretty much only the sonic and shadow parts were fun for me

This game is awesome, this doesn't do it justice.

Oh god ten years ago...

In this game, sonic and friends teased him and called him Eggman and Robotnik called himself Robotnik. It's probably how it should work.

Wow. This quick look managed to shatter any fond memories I had playing this on the Gamecube. There are so many elements to Sonic Adventure, that while impressive in 1999 and even passable in 2003 are total garbage now.