Sonic Adventure 2: Battle

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle is a video game that consists of 3 releases

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Sonic and Eggman clash once more in the Dreamcast's swan song, featuring a sprawling story rife with mystery and intrigue, told from both sides of its central conflict.

Sonic Adventure 2 was one of the final Dreamcast releases to come directly from Sega before the system was discontinued in 2001; the game was slightly tweaked and ported to the GameCube shortly afterward, sporting new battle modes and Game Boy Advance connectivity, and furthered the precedent set by Sonic Advance of Sonic the Hedgehog appearing for the first time on a Nintendo system. The game most notably introduced two major characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, a black hedgehog with upward-curled quills, amnesia problems, and a singular focus on finding out his reason for existence, and Rouge the Bat, a large-breasted treasure hunter who harbors a healthy obsession with jewels, both of whom appear in more subsequent games than any new character introduced afterward.

Where Sonic Adventure 2's predecessor was focused on telling a multilayered story with numerous protagonists, this game took a more refined approach; instead of selecting which individual character to play as when starting the adventure, the choice was only between which faction to play, "Hero" (featuring Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles) or "Dark" (featuring Shadow, Eggman, and Rouge), and experiencing the same events from the perspective of either set of characters. In terms of gameplay, both sport similar styles (though Dark assumes that the Hero campaign has been completed first, and is noticeably more difficult in comparison); Sonic/Shadow stages focus on running through stages that've been streamlined for speed, Tails/Eggman stages feature their characters piloting mechanical walking units with ballistic/missile capabilities, and Knuckles/Rouge stages deal with their characters flying around enormous stages to find objects (usually shards of the Master Emerald) in groups of three, usually to eclectic and interesting music.

Story

The game's story is most notable for featuring the explosion and transformation of the moon into a giant space laboratory with destructive laser-firing capabilities, a move that, as with other Sonic the Hedgehog plot revelations, has not been referenced or expanded upon in games before or since.

This game also featured the creation of "shadow" the hedgehog by Doctor Robotnik.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Platform(s)	GameCube
Publisher(s)	Sega
Developer(s)	Sonic Team
Genres	Add a new genre Action Adventure
Themes	Add a new theme Fantasy Sci-Fi
Original US Release	Feb. 12, 2002 need a fuzzy date?
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