User:Sonicrox14/Sonic Heroes 2

Sonic Heroes 2 is the fan-made sequel to Sonic Heroes, consisting of 7 teams. The game celebrates Sonic's 20th Anniversary

Team Sonic
Sonic is on another of his famous runs when he is nearly hit by an orb of darkness flying through the air. He follows the orb through until the end of the level where he finds Tails and Knuckles, who saw both an explosion and that same orb. Suddenly the orb crashes in front of them and they receive a message from a mysterious figure in dark fire: "Virole is coming..." Team Sonic returns to investigate once again!

Team Dark
Team Dark infiltrate Eggman's base at request of GUN. They go through the base and they find Eggman's artfical Emerald machine. They are about to crush it, when one of Dark Gaia's monsters comes in and attacks them. After they defeat that, Omega exclaims that that was power-increased version of one of Dark Gaia's monsters (The monster's powers were increased by Virole and Black Doom). Shadow also feels the Black Arm DNA inside it, so Rouge decides that they investigate ("Whenever there's a crisis, Sonic is there. And where there's Sonic, there's the Chaos Emeralds".) Through the journey they take, they uncover the truth of what really happened on the ARK those deaded 50 years ago.

Team Rose
Amy enlists Cream's help in another one of her desperate searches for Sonic, when a 7-year old raccoon girl seems to appear out of nowhere. She introduces herself as Marine the Raccoon, and says she was following Blaze because she wanted to help her find the Sol Emeralds (though Blaze didn't want her to come along for her own safety) so the three team up to find both Sonic and Blaze.

Team ARK
Team ARK are vacationing on Space Colony ARK With Dawn and Hope, when Skyler brings up how he often wonders why Shelly is team leader. Soon the discussion turns into a big argument between the two best friends. Suddenly Hope lets out a horrible shreik from the kitchen and Team ARK learn that the Black ARMs have invaded the ARK and their next adventure starts with one mission: protect the ARK!

Team Future
Silver travels 200 years back in time once again to prevent the evil that will befall his future one day, and Blaze searching for the Sol Emeralds, which somehow wound up in Sonic's dimension. They quickly decide to work together when they spot something in a nearby river. Silver pulls it out by the tail and discovers it is a cat. The girl almost mistakes him for Sonic and introduces herself as Kat. She is looking for Sonic, and the three decide to team up to help each other.

Team Fate
Noname, the mysterious hero, finds Spike, a white tiger hiding in a Chao cave. He explains there were creatures outside the cave he was hiding in, and Noname rescues a dove, calling herself Never, from one of these creatures. Setting aside their differences, they become Team Fate and set out to retrieve the Chaos Emerald that the Dark Arms have. The journey they have together will bind their fates forever.

Team Emerald
Kit the Cat, who is walking through the streets of Future City (seen in Sonic Riders), spots Milo the Echidna running from multiple police cars, due to stealing back his Chaos Emerald from the bank. The two both catch up with Jezz the Hedgehog, who is fending off Black Arms, when the police reach Milo. The team Team Blast their way out of danger, however, the only Black Creature who got away had stolen Jezz's emerald. The three then join forces and go on their first mission as Team Emerald!

Gameplay
At first, Team Sonic is the only playable team. However, as the game progresses, the player must unlock the other 6 teams and their stories. Stages from Sonic Advance 2 will be playable, Such as Music Plant and Hot Crater. Like the prequel, Sonic Heroes 2 focuses on fast-paced teamwork, and each team has their own gameplay style.


 * Team Sonic
 * Team Sonic's missions associate with speed, with side-mission requiring you to get to the end on the stage within the alloted time.
 * Team Dark
 * Team Dark's missions require you to defeat a certain number of enemies.
 * Team Rose
 * Team Rose's side missions revolve around acquring a large number of rings.
 * Team Future
 * One of the new types of missions for the game, Team Future must reach a certain score by defeating enemies, gathering rings, and performing "Team Blast".
 * Team ARK
 * Previously in Sonic Adventure, Team ARK's missions are "search-and-find", meaning you must find a certain item before time runs out.
 * Team Emerald
 * For Team Emerald's side-missions, you will have to perform "Team Blast" the required number of times.
 * Team Fate
 * Lastly, for Team Fate, you will need to finish the level with the Special Stage key in your possesion.

Development
Sonic Heroes 2 started out as a small, un-popular forum on the Sonic News Network, and because there were not many fancharacter auditions at the time, it was near being cancelled. However, things started to pick up after a few weeks and there soon there were 7 teams in the game. After a while, fans caught wind of the game and constantly asked about which site it would be on, and if it was released. Thus, the creators decided to transform it from a fanon story to a flash game.

Sonic Heroes 2 is currently in development using Game Maker 7.0. Lite. Development took place during May. The game will use sprites from both the Sonic Advance series and from Sonic Battle. Some sprites and backgrounds (such as Silver, Omega, Shelly, etc.) are fanmade, originating from deviantART, The Leaf Forest Zone (French) and The Mystical Forest Zone.

Many fans has complained about Team Chaotix being ommited from the game. One out of the two reasons for this was because they were originally going to be in, but later it became clear that adding Team Chaotix to the game would make it too redundant of Sonic Heroes. The other reason was because fancharacter auditions came in so suddenly, and there were only to be 7 teams in the game, and 12 fancharacter auditions came in.

On February 2, 2010, Noname the hero, the creator of Team Fate and their storyline, quit the project due to complications with the team. According to Noname, he wanted to help with the game's development, and said that Sonicrox14 was "hogging the program all to herself." He also felt ignored that she did not reply to most of his messages. He announced his departure from Sonic News Network the next day, and even attempted to provoke one of the administrators into penalizing him from the site. He re-joined the project days afterwards, stating that he will "go down with this project if I [he] have to!"

Demo
Development has been pushed back further due to loss of data. Glitches are being corrected and the game's quality is being improved.

Soundtrack
4/6 final battle remixes originate from Newgrounds. The majority of the music in the game is fan-made or remixed versions of past Sonic pieces.

Triple Threat: Sonic Heroes 2 Vocal Trax

 * ) Into the Wind - Crush 40 (4:28)
 * ) Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin
 * ) If Cupid Had A Heart - Julie Griffens
 * ) Dreams of an Absolution ~JS Remix~ - Bentley Jones (5:12)
 * ) Gravity Hurts - Niels Brinck
 * ) The Innocent - Goldfinger, Mesh & Good Charlotte
 * ) The Innocent - Goldfinger, Mesh & Good Charlotte

Bonus Trax (pending removal)

 * ) Sonic Heroes (3:28)

Sonic Heroes 2 OST

 * STAGE 01: Neo Green Hill Remix (2:24) - DarkWarrior300
 * STAGE 01:
 * STAGE 01: Music Plant Remix (2:50) - RoyTorince
 * STAGE 01: Leaf Forest Remix
 * STAGE 01: Space Colony ARK Remix
 * STAGE 01: Future City Remix
 * STAGE 01: City Rush (OBGM)

Trivia

 * Team Fate is the only team not to have a hedgehog as leader, or rather, have a hedgehog at all in it.
 * Marine joining Team Rose makes it the only all-girls' team. It also marks the second game she has appeared in, the first being Sonic Rush Adventure.
 * Noname is the only character omitted from the game's website's homepage . The reason for this is because there has not yet been a 3D picture of Noname.