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Sonic Heroes

by Sonic Team·published by Sega

30 December 2003Everyone6
PCWindowsPlayStationPS2XboxGameCubePS3

Reader score

7.0/ 10

103 votes

How long to beat

only 2 reports

7h

Rushed

main story only

10h

Normally

story and some extras

16h

Completionist

everything in it

Where to get it

Trailer

Gallery

22

Screenshots

Key art

About

Sonic Heroes is a 3D action-platformer in which the player takes control of a team of 3 characters, each with a special ability - speed, fly and power. The objective of the game is to race through levels as quickly as possible whilst defeating enemies and collecting rings. Your time, rings and enemies defeated make up a point system, and more points mean a higher rank on the level. There are 4 teams of characters each with their own changes to the gameplay:

  • Team Sonic is the intermediate difficulty featuring Sonic (speed), Tails (fly) and Knuckles (power).
  • Team Shadow is the hard difficulty featuring Shadow (speed), Rogue (fly) and E-123 Omega (power).
  • Team Rose is the easy difficulty featuring Amy (speed), Cream (fly) and Big (power).
  • Team Chaotix features new mission-based objectives with Espio (speed), Charmy (fly) and Vector (power).

The game features 4 modes:

  • Story Mode, giving players the opportunity to play through levels as the story progresses.
  • Challenge Mode, giving players the opportunity to replay levels that they have previously cleared in Story Mode
  • Battle Mode, a multiplayer mode where players can race or battle each other
  • Tutorial Mode, teaching players the basics of playing the game.

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayerSplit screen

Together

Split-screen

Perspective

Third personBird view / Isometric

Engine

RenderWare

Players

2 offline

Included in

Sonic PC Collection2 in 1 Combo Pack: Sonic Heroes/Super Monkey Ball Deluxe

Languages

6 languages, with audio, subtitles and interface
Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish (Spain)

Game details

Business Model

Commercial

Drivers/APIs Supported

Direct3D

Media Type

CD-ROM

Input Devices Supported/Optional

Keyboard, Mouse, Other Input Devices

Input Device Features Supported

Force Feedback

Additional Hardware Required

3D Accelerator

Multiplayer Options

Same/Split-Screen

Multiplayer Game Modes

Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS)

Number of Offline Players

1-2 Players

Save Game Methods

Auto-save, Internal Storage

System requirements

Min. CPU Class Required

Intel Pentium III

Min. OS Class Required

Windows 98SE

Min. RAM Required

128 MB

Min. DirectX Version Required

DirectX 9.0b

Min. CD-ROM Drive Speed Required

12X (1.8 MB/s)

Min. Video Memory Required

16 MB

Video Modes Supported

Full screen, Window

Video Resolutions Supported

640×480, 1024×768

Box art

Also known as

SHAbbreviation

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Facts

Developer

Sonic Team

Publisher

Sega

Released

30 December 2003

Series

Sonic the Hedgehog

Platforms

PCWindowsPlayStationPS2XboxGameCubePS3

Age ratings

ESRBEveryonePEGI3USK6ACBG

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