Here it is, Sonic's big break into 3D and the poster child for the Sega Dreamcast. It's everything that made the Genesis games fun, but in 3D! The six different playable characters vary from amazing to mediocre, but they all have at least one thing that makes them somewhat fun. And then there's the final boss as Super Sonic against Perfect Chaos, which is great. Open Your Heart is a fantastic song for the boss fight, with extremely fitting lyrics with a great delivery by Crush 40's Johnny Gioeli. Speaking about Open Your Heart, the soundtrack is great, every character's main theme song is fitting to their personalities, which just makes them so much better. And finally, the models look really good for 1998, especially Tails, Sonic and Amy. Their fur textures look great. My criticisms with the game are minor, just that sometimes the camera is wonky and some clipping issues, otherwise this is a great game that is definitely worth playing. 4.5/5

I so far have only played through Sonic's campaign, but that's half the game so why not review it? This game is the first to introduce the boost gameplay which would later be used in 2008's Sonic Unleashed, and in this game
the boosting is actually pretty good! The boost feels good to use and keeping your boost gauge up is easy and is implemented into the gameplay well. Another great part of this game is the music, which does the thing Launch Base from Sonic 3 did, that is sampling vocal pieces, like in Back 2 Back and A New Day, the games main theme song, Aaalthough, that's kinda where the positives end, the game is developed by Dimps, which are great at implementing a ton of instadeath hazards, this is very clearly seen in the later stages, and especially in Altitude Limit, where there is so much instadeath its ridiculous. And finally, my biggest problem is the final boss, it's almost too hard, there are a ton of hard to avoid attacks that will most likely catch you off guard. I was able to beat it through abusing savestates, but it certainly wasn't fun. Overall a pretty interesting and sometimes fun game, 3/5, so far

I have a massive love/hate relationship with this game. On one hand, I love the horde shooter elements, the replayability with the skill system and weapons, the characters and how they interact with eachother, The interesting level ideas and of course, the at times completely bonkers story with ancient artifacts and body swapping. However there are a few problems. First off the game is horribly unoptimized, it really hurts how badly it can run sometimes. Secondly, this game has the worst case of power creep I've seen, there are just some perk decks that are better than others by a large margin. And lastly, content is not spread equally between platforms. While the PC port has been doing well, the console ports have been lacking content for almost 3 years, meaning they are extremely inferior to the master race PC version. But even with all these faults, I still think Payday 2 is a game worth playing, 3.5/5