One of my favourite games.

Now this will be a review of my personal favourite game ever and I will try not to let my love for this game blind me as I will admit that it is by no means the best game ever it is just my personal favourite. So lets start this totally bias review
Sonic was in1999 by Sega's sonic team for dreamcast. It of course stars Sonic the Hedgehog but in this game you can actually play as his cohorts such as Tails, Knuckles Amy E-102 gamma and bloody Big the Cat.
 The game opens with sonic noticing some SWAT members heading towards a building in town being a rather dimwitted fool sonic thinks he can help the people with guns and decides to see what the problem is. Turns out some horrible creature made out of something that looks like water is being shot at for no adequately explained reason. Sonic sees the bullets are having no effect and decides to take down the strange creature. After managing to defeat it it slinks away into the sewer like a coward. After all this Sonic decides to relax in the hotel when suddenly Tails crashes his bi-plane into the local beach so sonic must rescue him. Now from here on in the game begins to diverge into different perspectives of the story and I will cover each when I talk about gameplay. Anyway the main plot revolves around the water creature Chaos being controlled by Eggman/Doctor Robotnik who is feeding him the seven chaos emeralds to make him big and strong and Sonic plus his crew must stop him at all costs. During this each character is contacted by a mysterious character who helps explain the origin of chaos and how he came to be. This all leads to a climatic showdown in the end but more on that later.
 The gameplay varies from character to character so I will focus on the common elements such as upgrading in this game you can obtain upgrade for your powers that actually appear on the characters which I personally enjoyed but the overworld makes upgrading difficult as it either makes them a chore to find or makes it unnecessarily difficult such as when they change the camera angle suddenly in the middle of the goddamn puzzle making me restart it. Now as I mentioned the overworld can irritate me as the jungle is designed in such a way that if you don't have a map you will be lost for hours and I feel the game should a least give you a crude map so navigation is easier. The overworld does have some good qualities though such as the different music that plays in each area for example in the jungle you will hear pan flutes and drums which just adds to atmosphere. But personally I wish they had put a bit more effort into the overworld as it can be awkward to go from one area to the next.
 Time to take about the characters starting with Sonic his mechanics are pretty much the same as they have always been you run jump and spin although the unique and interesting levels make the difference and make the normally mundane controls interesting. Sonic also a few puzzles near the end of the game which come completely out of nowhere and are never seen in any other characters game. There is one major problem with Sonic though, the bad lip syncing and voice acting is really annoying and is bad for all except Gamma and Amy.
Tails' gameplay is almost the same as Sonic's only you must beat Sonic but where Sonic has speed you have flight. One of the best parts of Tails' story is his insecurity about whether he is useful without Sonic and how he overcomes this by the end. The only real problem with Tails is that it rehashes all of Sonic's levels only now with a time limit.
Knuckles is the dumbest characters in the game as he believes Eggman without question when he claims Sonic broke the Master Emerald which keeps his island afloat. Anyhow minor complaint aside knuckle's quest is to go into every level and retrieve the three pieces of the master emerald. Now Knuckles is a bit different to the others as he will punch and dig as well as glide (which makes an amazing sound) so he is one better to play if you're looking for something new.
Amy the creepy stalker of Sonic who follows him and is convinced he will someday marry her. Amy's levels mainly involving being chased by a robot who wants to capture your bird as he contains a chaos emerald. You mainly run and walk the robot with your hammer to slow him down these levels can be rather trick as it involves knowing the level really well.
E-102 Gamma has the best storyline in the game originally created by Eggman to capture the chaos emeralds. You start of just obeying Eggman blindly until you encounter Amy's bird and something within you changes you realise that you must hunt down your brothers and set the animals within them free. At the end of this you come up against E-101 and after defeating him you self-destruct in order to release the bird inside you which was the parent of Amy's bird. Gamma is completely different as he has a timer that ticks down and will only increase when you kill enemies with your right arm gun just awesome.
Bloody Big the Cat it's Sega bass fishing only the controls are even worse that is all.
   This game gets a solid 8/10 from me as I may love it but it does have some problems both mechanically and story wise but is utterly fantastic and creative.
Next post will be my most hated game of all time.