Sonic Heroes



Sonic Heroes was a game released in 2003 for the Gamecube, PS2, XBox, and later PC. The game's story centered on how four teams each wanted to find something. Depending on which team was selected, the style of gameplay changed notably. They were all searching for, or otherwise involved in, who they believed to be Dr. Eggman. In many way, this game represented a return to the roots of Sonic the Hedgehog, having seven worlds (each with two normal 'acts' and one boss fight) and a final boss showdown, plus a hidden 'actual' final showdown.

Each team had three members: Speed, Power, and Flight. Any of these could be switched into at almost any time, making tag-team fights (where one member would expose a weak point, and another member exploit it) not only possible, but necessary.

Team Rose
Team Rose was composed of Amy Rose as Speed, Cream the Rabbit, with her pet Chao, Cheese, as Flight, and Big as Power. Each member of Team Rose were searching for something, with Amy, the leader of the team, looking for Sonic, Cream looking for Cheese's brother, Chocola, and Big looking for his pet and faithful fishing companion Froggy.

Originally, Team Rose was not after Eggman, but for Chocola and Froogy, which were later shown to be stolen by Metal Sonic. However, latter in their story Amy figured that if she got Eggman, Sonic would be head over heels for her. Metal Overlord is a mysterious monster that Metal Sonic has transformed The overall gameplay of Team Rose is classified as being "Easy" as their missions were often shorter than the other teams, didn't have the mini-boss scenes, and fewer enemies. Furthermore, Team Rose's "Team Blast" destroyed all nearby enemies, leveled up each of the members, activated a barrier, and allowed for invincibility.

Team Sonic
Team Sonic was composed of Sonic as Speed, Tails as Flight, and Knuckles as Power. Their storyline start with Tails and Knuckles, flying in the Tornado, finding Sonic, who was running about, and handing him a note, assumably by Eggman, announcing his newest plan. After Sonic reads the note, he decides that it's "an invitation to party" and heads off to stop Eggman.

Team Sonic also appeared in Sonic Rush Heroes.

The gameplay of Team Sonic is classified as being of "normal" difficulty, and most of the missions are timed, which require an all-out run to the goal ring, and their Team Blast destroys all nearby enemies and upgraded Sonic's attacks for 10 seconds.

Team Dark
Team Dark was composed of Shadow as Speed, Rouge as Flight, and E-123 Omega as Power. Team Dark's storyline starts with Rouge going inside one of Eggman's bases in search of treasures, but, inside of it, she finds Shadow's pod, and awakens him. However, Omega, angry at Eggman for sealing him in the base, starts to attack Shadow (most likely thinking in was one of Eggman's robot judging by the line he says while shooting at Shadow, "Must eradicate all Eggman robots.") Afterwards, Rouge, most likely so she won't get killed in the event, stops the event and forces the amnesia-stricken Shadow and Omega to work together, thus making her, the flight-type versus the speed-type leaders of Team Sonic and Team Rose, the leader of the group.

Team Dark's gameplay is classified as having a hard difficulty because even though their missions generally resembled Team Sonic's, they had more mini-bosses and enemies versus the other three groups, but, to counter against that, they also have the most powerful Team Blast in which Shadow froze time for 10 seconds, while Omega used a Chaos Emerald-powered blaster cannon to destroy all nearby enemies.

Team Chaotix
Team Chaotix is composed of Espio as Speed, Charmy as Flight, and the leader, Vector, as Power. Team Chaotix's storyline starts with them being a detective agency who were hired, via a mysterious radio which, was used throughout most of the story, unknowingly by the real Eggman, but Espio, unsure of the job, tries to convince the others to not accept it. However, Eggman stated that he can "pay [them] handsomely," which leads Vector to remind the group of their policy, "We never turn down work that pays," and dash off, the other two following.

Team Chaotix's gameplay was of very hard (or 'omni') difficulty as they had mission-based, and, if you didn't complete the mission before reaching the "end" of the stage you had to replay ad infinitum until the prescribed goal was finished. Even though they have a weak Team Blast, it got rid of all the local enemies and give them 5, 10, or 20 Rings at random for the enemies destroyed in the initial blast, but for the next 10 seconds as well, which can be useful in Robot Carnival and Robot Storm

Stages
All four of the teams have to go through the game's fourteen regular stages in order, unlike in the Sonic Adventure games. These levels were:


 * 1) Seaside Hill
 * 2) Ocean Palace
 * 3) Grand Metropolis
 * 4) Power Plant
 * 5) Casino Park
 * 6) BINGO Highway
 * 7) Rail Canyon
 * 8) Bullet Station
 * 9) Frog Forest
 * 10) Lost Jungle
 * 11) Hang Castle
 * 12) Mystic Mansion
 * 13) Egg Fleet
 * 14) Final Fortress

Bosses
In Sonic Heroes, boss fights in the regular team stories occur every two levels. Some of these battles are against Dr. Eggman in one of his contraptions, while others are battles against swarms of regular enemies summoned by Eggman, or against other teams encountered as the game's stories progress. These battles are:


 * 1) Egg Hawk
 * 2) Team Battle 1
 * 3) Robot Carnival
 * 4) Egg Albatross
 * 5) Team Battle 2
 * 6) Robot Storm
 * 7) Egg Emperor
 * 8) Metal Madness

Team Battles
In each story after the fourth (Power Plant) and tenth levels (Lost Jungle) are completed, a cutscene will show a small confrontation between your selected team and one of the other teams. A misunderstanding will often result as to why the teams are there, which blows up into a battle on a small platform.

The goal of these battle is to knock the other team off of the platform before you get knocked off. This is the battle breakdown by team:

Team Sonic:


 * Team Battle 1- Team Rose
 * Team Battle 2- Team Dark

Team Dark:


 * Team Battle 1- Team Chaotix
 * Team Battle 2- Team Sonic

Team Rose:


 * Team Battle 1- Team Sonic
 * Team Battle 2- Team Chaotix

Team Chaotix:


 * Team Battle 1- Team Dark
 * Team Battle 2- Team Rose

These following bosses can only be fought once all four team stories have been completed fully and all seven Chaos Emeralds have been gathered:


 * 1) Metal Overlord- Fought with the Rose, Chaotix and Dark teams
 * 2) Metal Madness- Fought with Team Sonic after undergoing Super transformation

Music
Much of the music in Sonic Heroes was composed and performed by Crush 40, a role they would resume in Shadow the Hedgehog.

Trivia
The majority of the Team Rose stages have 2 goal rings, the first one you see and a further one at the end of the area's full course via cheats (ex. ARMAX).

Team Sonic and Team Chaotix never battle and Team Dark and Team Rose never battle in the story mode.

Not all of the cutscenes are canonically correct since the events recur with different teams in the same time frame (ex all teams find the Eggman to be a fake in the same place seperately when there is still a countdown to destruction).

Chocola has yet to be seen or mentioned since Sonic Heroes, and it is still unknown whether or not he lives with Cream's family (ex in Vanilla's house).