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This is the best game I've ever played. Heres why:

Pros:
- theres always something to do: hero side story mode, kart racing, chao raising, dark side storymode, select your favorite stage and play it again after you beat it, chao karate, chao racing, buying cool stuff at the chao kindergarten...

- fast paced and easy to get started but challenging after you get past 5 or 6 levels (and there are a lot levels! If you can't get past a certain bad guy that is where the stage select comes in handy, you'll still love this game!)
- very fun, you can even do tricks in certain levels (like grinding rails...and in the very first level called City Escape you are on a snowboard or skateboard or something and you can do tricks on it like flips and twirls and cool stuff like that)
- sonic games are awesome and this one is 3D!!!!(that means good graphics)
- the music is great in most of the levels (you'll like it if you like hip hop and pop and rap and stuff, even though it doesn't play that kind of music, it somehow reminds you of it)

Cons: If you aren't that good at games (like me hahaha ) you could get stuck at certain levels, but you could always go back to stage select if you get bored repeating the level you are stuck at.

This game is great because you never get sick of it. I have four games and I play this one 9 out of 10 times I go to play my gamecube! I had no idea if I'd like it but I ended up loving it. At least rent it nomatter what kind of games you like!

This (lucky me!) happened to be my first Sonic game. Though I've had the game for a year or so, I still play it regularly. Why?? Because it's one of the best games ever for GC. There's 180 emblems to collect, which will keep you playing for hours at a time. The theme songs are wonderful and desrcibe each character perfectly. The gameplay really flows nicely. If you just want to see the ending, just zip through the story modes. If you want to see a secret little extra that Sonicteam put in, get all 180 emblems.
Rouge and Knuckles' levels aren't really THAT tedious. Wild Canyon and Dry Lagoon are 2 or 3 minute excursions. It's just when you get to the harder levels where it gets tedious. For example spending 9 minutes on Mad Space. Or spending 5 minutes on Death Chamber. But overall, this is a game for people even if they aren't Sonic fans. This game has recently even become a Player's Choice game. Shows you how much people really do love this game ^^

I've always loved the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and this game is no different. The great part about this game is that you can either play the Hero side or the Dark side, whichever you choose, it DOES end up the same way.

Gameplay - awesome controls, plays a lot like the older games but obviously a little better considering it's a lot newer and on a better system.

Graphics - great graphics, good detail on the characters and the levels are awesome.

Stages - each character has their own special stages, Sonic/Shadow are on their feet doing adventure modes, Tails/Eggman are in machines while Knuckles/Rouge have to find three emerald pieces. This game even has 2 racing stages. The best part is, after you beat a level, you can replay it as much as you want and you keep playing until you receive the letter A. Once you beat the level, a new "challenge" appears such as collect 100 coins, find the lost chao, time mode and hard mode. The stages also get gradually harder which is expected.

Characters - old and new characters appear here, of course Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are back to fight off the evil Dr. Eggman but this time he's brought along Rouge the bat and Shadow, a Sonic look-a-like which is supposedly the "secret weapon".

Options - not only does this game have the different challenges for each level, it also contains a 2 player mode where you can play with a friend on some of the stages. Other two player games include the racing, chao race and a shooting battle.

Chao Garden - the Chao Garden is an amazing feature, it's awesome raising chao and in this game you get 3 gardens though 2 have to be earned. The Hero Garden is a garden for the good chao (chaos that should only be raised by Sonic, Tails and Knuckles). It's a beautiful sunny garden with a nice heavenly waterfall/pool. The Dark Garden is for evil chaos (for Shadow, Eggman and Rouge). It is complete with a red pool and dying, Halloween looking trees. The chaos can die but if you treated them well, they will leave an egg and after 2 or 3 times they will become an immortal Angel or Devil chao and will actually look quite different (IF you follow the directions). There is chao races in the normal garden (for good, evil or neutral chao) and chao karate. Once you beat all the races and karate, you will receive gifts.

Other - the game is great, it features similar levels to the old Sonic, he still has the loops and everything. I like the idea that you can be good or evil and the storyline is excellent. It's the kind of game you will want to play over and over again, especially since it's actually REALLY hard to get a level A in some of the levels. A fun overall game and definitely worth the price.