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Name: | Sonic Heroes |
Console: | Playstation 2 (PS2) |
Release Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Sega |
Genres: | Platform, Action, Adventure, Racing |
Sonic Heroes is a 2003 platform video game developed by Sonic Team USA and published by Sega for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. It was first released on December 30, 2003 in Japan, and then on January 5, 2004 in the US. As part of the PlayStation 2 classics program, the PlayStation 2 version was re-released in Europe on the PlayStation Network in late February 2012 and September 17, 2014 in Japan. It is the first Sonic game to be released on Sony and Microsoft consoles. Sonic Heroes is the eighth primary installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Set after the events of Sonic Adventure 2, the game's story follows the journeys of four individual teams of three on their search for the mad scientist Doctor Eggman. However, Sonic the Hedgehog's robot duplicate and nemesis, Metal Sonic, is secretly manipulating the game's events in a plan to eradicate his long time foe.