Sonic Heroes

by Sega

Product Features

• Play as one of 4 teams for a total of 12 playable characters
• Control 3 playable characters at the same time -- use their different abilities to explore massive game worlds
• Multiple paths & missions for hours of great gameplay
• Check out the specialized stages that wait for every unique team
• Awesome environments and all kinds of challenges for every gamer!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006O4VNM
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,653 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

Sonic Heroes takes you blazing through a world of great adventure! Use multiple teams & formations to conquer the ultimate hero, once and for all.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT GAME... IF SEGA cared about the PC community, February 8, 2005

By 

Juan M. Crdenas-M "VALARDUR" (West Lafayette, IN USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sonic Heroes (Video Game)

This is by far the best sonic 3d game I've played. It is the closest you will get to the golden games of sonic in the genesis. It is fast, some stages like casinopolis are back,the special stage is just like that great sonic 2 stage, and last but not least charachters go back to their original, great roots. Sonic speed, Tails flying does make a difference in this game, and Knuckes, though it can not climb, it is quite usefull for uncovering the different routes, just like in the genesis.

The other teams are just the same, given changes in the degree of difficulty, but in reality the only difficulty you will find in this game... is the lack for a proper Console to PC transfer.

Withouth the analog control, it is sometimes very difficult to manouver arround stages, and you will fall quite a lot.

Also, PC graphics and performance can easily surpassed those in the consoles ... ok grated you have a good gaming desktop... and sega didn't took advantage of this. The only addon I have discovered so far for the PC, are a bunch of wallpapers, really nice by the way, and some mouse pointers, that is all.

If you have a console and an extra $20, probably get the console

But if like me, you give up on console when the DC died. Get this sonic game. It is fun, a different yet familiar gameplay, that will give you some old school Sonic fun. Given the controll issues I'm not giving it a 5.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sonic Heroes comes to the PC!, September 18, 2005

By 

KnyteOwl (Noneyaville, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sonic Heroes (Video Game)

From Sega comes one of our favorite old school mascot platformers--Sonic. But in Sonic Heroes this time around. Much maligned for twitchy controls, and spastic camera on the PC (but you can say that for allot of PC ports), I thought that while both could have stood refinement, the complaints of these found in other user reviews was pretty overstated. The camera did become a problem in a handful of instances, but you can pan it around, or zoom in and out, so that makes up for it somewhat.

In Sonic Heroes, you choose from one of four three character teams (though you must complete the game with all 4 teams for total game completion). The general idea is that regardless of which team you play, all team members have more or less the same ability. In each team consisting of 3 members, one character focuses on speed, one on power, and one on flying.

For my money ($15.00) this isn't a terrible game. The graphics look pretty good, and the game supports fairly high resolution for all you with fast video cards. The game engine is packed with all sorts of high tech doo-dads like colored lighting, some pretty nice fog and particle effects, antisotropic filtering, and anti-aliasing. The levels seem imaginitive colorful, and well thought out and designed with a pretty decent diversity of environments. The game supports rumblepads, and doesn't force you to switch between using your gamepad, and keyboard/mouse at the menus (a biggie for me since I play the game on my TV using a gamepad)--all game commands are accessible from, or can be mapped to your gamepad if you intend to use one. Having not played the game on other platforms,I think this is probably important to having a good experience with the game, because I noticed many of the complaints regarding controls other users lodged against this game centered primarily on the absence of analog control because they (obviously) weren't playing with gamepads. I can't speak for keyboard and mouse controls as I never got used to using them in console ports, and stopped trying a long time ago. I play the game using a dual analog gamepad (Thrustmaster Firestorm Dual Power 2), and felt that the controls are probably comparable to what you're going to get on the console versions.

The game doesn't offer any expanded/bonus content, etc for PC players, and that's a ding as this sort of thing is generally fairly common in console ports. The production values are down in the dirt too as you get no jewel case, manual, or even a box with a fold out cover, or any type of embossing/debossing--far from being a full blown effort complete with advertising campaign, it was a fairly flippant effort designed purely for making a few quick bucks. However, that still doesn't mean it's not a decent game--I'm having a good time with it, and don't anticipate selling/trading it anytime soon. I'm going to ding it a little for the low production values (hence the 3 star overall rating), but especially as a value title, I'd have to say it's worth your bargain bin pocket change to pick up if you just can't get enough of Sonic.

UPDATED EDIT: Sonic Heroes is Win Vista/Win 7 compatible.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply....., December 20, 2004

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sonic Heroes (Video Game)

GREAT!!! And you people out there who have this and is running EXTREMLY SLOW! All you got to do to fix that is the following steps:

1. Insert Disk 1

2. Choose the setup

3. Look at the bottom of the editer

4. You should see the Numbers 10,20,30, and 60

5. Set to 30

6. Look on the next thing above that

7. turn off the shadow's

It is that easy to setup it is also great so have fun playing Sonic Heroes PC!

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