Is Sonic Unleashed The Closest Thing To Sonic Adventure 3?

<p>Recently&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve been running laps around the globe in <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> and I feel as if I’ve come up with a theory&colon; <em>Sonic Unleashed <&sol;em>may be the closest Sonic fans will get to having a Sonic Adventure 3 &lpar;the most requested Sonic game of all time by fans&rpar;&comma; unless&comma; of course&comma; SEGA decides to make that dream happen themselves&period; First&comma; we must ask&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What <em>is<&sol;em> Sonic Adventure 3&comma; and why would <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> –of all the Sonic games be the closest we could get to having a Sonic Adventure 3&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Let’s explore this theory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1218px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;199&period;101&period;98&period;242&sol;media&sol;images&sol;150822-Sonic&lowbar;Unleashed&lowbar;&lpar;USA&rpar;&lowbar;&lpar;En&comma;Ja&comma;Fr&comma;De&comma;Es&comma;It&rpar;-10&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1218" height&equals;"685" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Sonic Unleashed&comma; SEGA&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Sonic Adventure<&sol;em> and <em>Sonic Adventure 2<&sol;em> are arguably viewed as the &&num;8220&semi;best&&num;8221&semi; Sonic games of all time – before <em>Sonic Generations<&sol;em>&comma; at the very least&period; By &&num;8220&semi;best&comma;&&num;8221&semi; I mean they&&num;8217&semi;re liked by more fans than disliked&period; This seems to be the case with <em>Adventure 1 &amp&semi; 2<&sol;em> more so than any other Sonic game&period; Obviously&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;d expect that a third <em>Sonic Adventure<&sol;em> would be heavily demanded by the community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;What makes a <em>Sonic Adventure<&sol;em> game&quest;&&num;8221&semi; is the question we should be asking ourselves&period; Is it the style of gameplay&quest; The story&quest; The characters&quest; To me&comma; it would be all three&period; <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> doesn&&num;8217&semi;t exactly share the same gameplay traits with <em>Sonic Adventure 1 &amp&semi; 2<&sol;em>&comma; but it shares similarities in other ways&period; In <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em>&comma; not only did Sonic go fast&comma; but he was also able to take various alternate paths to reach the goal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1280px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;xboxoz360&period;files&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;2009&sol;01&sol;sonic-unleashed-oxcgn-21&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"694" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Chun-Nan Stage &lpar;Sonic Unleashed&comma; SEGA&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>You also get to use his new and temporary super form&comma; the Werehog&period; With this form&comma; <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> introduces a fairly unique style of gameplay that hasn’t been seen in a Sonic game before &lpar;unless you want to count <em>Sonic The Fighters<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> thus consists of two unique gameplay styles&colon; Sonic’s fast- paced platforming and the Werehog’s action packed fighting stages&period; I feel this is an interesting twist and these two aspects are more than enough to keep the gameplay fresh&period; The <em>Sonic Adventure<&sol;em> games also had this variety&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I believe that a lot of Sonic fans will tell you that the best part of<em> Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> is its story&period; I honestly think it’s the best story in Sonic’s history&comma; which is saying quite a bit&excl; Sonic’s world being split apart thrusts him into a new adventure around the world – the only thing slowing him down is his new super form&comma; the Werehog&period; An interesting fact is that in Japan&comma; <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> is called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Sonic World Adventure<&sol;em>”&period; There is also a rumor that <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> was originally going to be called Sonic Adventure 3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1257px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;yasupload&period;ir&sol;uploads&sol;nn4nr7ymzxc24fyz0l&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1257" height&equals;"707" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Sonic&&num;8217&semi;s Werehog Form &lpar;Sonic Unleashed&comma; SEGA&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Given all the evidence above&comma; <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> is the closest Sonic we&&num;8217&semi;ll get to having a Sonic Adventure 3&comma; or at least it will be until SEGA decides to make it themselves&period; Sonic goes on a worldwide adventure&comma; Chao make a very brief appearance &lpar;no gardens this time&comma; though&comma; sorry&excl;&rpar;&comma; the story has a perfect balance between lightheartedness and seriousness&comma; the Chaos Emeralds play a drastic role to saving the world&comma; and to top it off&comma; there’s an unholy amount of replayability with tons of DLC and in-game collectables&period; Even though <em>Sonic Unleashed<&sol;em> is as close as we&&num;8217&semi;ve come to Sonic Adventure 3&comma; SEGA knows it’s something the fans want&period; After all&comma; the head of Sonic Team once said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If many people really really want it&&num;8230&semi;then perhaps&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;