4) Sonic Adventure
If there’s one word to describe Sonic Adventure, it’s ambitious. This game was the Dreamcast’s system seller after all. There are so many ideas in Sonic Adventure that never even existed during the time of its release that it can be seen as an innovator of many things common in today’s age of gaming. A weird thing to say for a Sonic game, not many games before Sonic Adventure had cinematic set-pieces integrated into levels. How many games today feature cinematic set-pieces in levels? Exactly.
Doesn’t mean the game isn’t a mess of ideas still, but the fact that all the ideas were implemented, and for the most part achieved, in 1998 is kind of godly. This game features kart racing, snowboarding, fishing, 3rd person shooting, collectathons, virtual pet, pinball, and more random genres all in one game. Do they all work? No. But the effort is there and it is valliant. Plus this game started the trend of simultaneously horrible and well composed soundtracks and the trend of ludicrous Story modes that are so bad, they’re good. God bless you Sonic Adventure.
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