Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic Generations)

Silver the Hedgehog is the second rival in Sonic Generations, fought in the Modern Era.

Normal Mode
The rival battle with Silver the Hedgehog is set upon a long highway in Crisis City, with Silver flying alongside Sonic. Silver will attack Sonic with a wide variety of Psychokinetic attacks. Silver starts off the fight by launching a car directly at Sonic. Silver can attack by either hovering three cars directly above Sonic and try to crush him with them, usually smashing one down before the other two, but can switch combinations every time the attack is done, picking up and throwing one object at a time, or collecting various objects from the highway to launch at Sonic. However, at this point, Sonic can use his homing attack on said objects to attack Silver. Silver can also attack by creating a large, makeshift ram to charge at Sonic. Sonic has to jump onto the ram and boost forward to get close to Silver, and attack him. During the battle, Silver can throw a Psychic Knife, a large blade of psychic energy, either horizontally or vertically (similar to the Egg Emperor slash attack in Sonic Heroes), to try and attack Sonic. Silver's final, strongest attack, known as Meteor Smash, has him gather up various objects into a large ball, and launch it into the highway behind Sonic, crushing Sonic if he cannot outrun it. While Sonic runs from the giant ball of rubble, Silver will try to crush Sonic with a large container. Sonic must avoid this, while, at the same time, boosting to catch up with Silver and attack him, in which successfully doing so causes Silver to fall to the ground and get crushed by his own ball of debris, ending the fight, and granting Sonic a Chaos Emerald. It takes a total of 5 hits to defeat Silver on Normal & Hard mode.

Hard Mode
In hard mode, Silver is much faster in executing his attacks and will also attack with his Psychic Knife multiple times in succession. When trying to crush Sonic with three cars, Silver will usually smash them all down at once. During Silver's final attack, he will try to crush Sonic with two containers in succession instead of one.

Trivia

 * One of the balls of debris that Silver throws contains a "Chao in Space III" sign. This sign can also be seen in the Hub World.
 * Silver is the only rival not to be announced in any of the era trailers. Instead, Perfect Chaos from Sonic Adventure  is shown at the end of the Modern Era trailer.
 * Oddly enough, Perfect Chaos is part of the Dreamcast Era.
 * Silver's attack pattern is somewhat similar to the Egg Emperor's attack pattern in Sonic Heroes.