Circus Park

Circus Park is a stage in the game Shadow the Hedgehog. Circus Park is one of three third stages and can be reached by completing the Hero mission of Glyphic Canyon or the Hero mission of Lethal Highway.

Story
Shadow comes to Circus Park looking for the fourth Chaos Emerald, and luckily enough, as he approaches the carnival he spots Tails flying overhead in the Emerald-powered Tornado 3. For an unknown reason Tails crashes his plane (the fox is most likely shot down in the crossfire between Eggman's defenses and an attacking force of G.U.N. troops, bailing out and leaving the Tornado to spiral away into the distance) and it is later revealed that he came to get the rings that Dr. Eggman stole. Undaunted by his violent arrival, Tails suggests to Shadow that they should team up and "recover" all the rings Eggman's collected in the park. Further in the level Shadow runs into Eggman's Drone, who conversely asks Shadow for his help in defeating the "G.U.N. geeks". The player can choose to help Tails get the rings, eliminate the G.U.N. robots, or simply find the grey Chaos Emerald.

Dark
Eliminate the G.U.N. Beetles!


 * Guide: Doctor Eggman
 * Objective: Defeat all 20 of the G.U.N. enemies on Circus Park.
 * Tips: Many of the G.U.N. Beetles are off the beaten path, so you may need to explore to find some. 4 should have been defeated by the time you reach checkpoint #2, 10 by checkpoint #3, 13 by checkpoint #4, and 15 by checkpoint #5. The last 5 lie after checkpoint #5.

Ranking:

Leads to: Sky Troops

Normal
Find the Chaos Emerald!


 * Objective: Reach the Goal Ring containing the Chaos Emerald.

Ranking:

Leads to: Mad Matrix

Hero
Collect 400 Rings!


 * Guide: Tails
 * Objective: Gather 400 Rings.
 * Tips: Although initially there are not actually 400 Rings in the level, there are special ways to earn bonus rings. These include:
 * Shooting Gallery - To begin, shoot one of the large disks that looks like a clock. Balloons will then rise around you, which you must shoot to earn rings. There is also a green bonus gauge which fills as you hit balloons; filling it completely earns you an extra 50 rings. Shooting purple balloons, however, causes the gauge to decrease and you to lose rings.
 * Being launched into a nose that looks like Eggman - This becomes really helpful, when you are pass one of these 'noses' and you reach the checkpoint after it. Use it to travel back to the checkpoint before the 'nose' then replay it you will get 50 rings each time.
 * Flaming Hoops - Jumping through a flaming hoop earns you 5 rings.

Ranking:

Leads to: Death Ruins

Music
thumb|300px|left|Circus Park

Behind the Secret Door
A shooting gallery that helps with the Hero mission of collecting 400 rings.

Trivia

 * Circus Park is also the name of one of the worlds in the also Sonic Team-developed game, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.
 * Circus Park is similar to Casino Park from Sonic Heroes.
 * The barrels look like those in Sonic 3 & Knuckles in Carnival Night Zone.
 * The beginning cutscene to this stage set up the famous line, "Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?" In Sonic Generations, Shadow just happens to guard the fourth Emerald, either by coincidence, by his spot in the timeline or because of said line.
 * This is the only Amusment park in the series that has Shooting Galleries in it.