8.5 Presentation Text-heavy, static cut-scenes aside, it's a feature-packed title that ticks the right boxes with vigour.
9.0 Graphics It's bright, breezy and fast - and the DS handles both side-scrolling and impressive 3D sections with ease. 9.0 Sound Technically as accomplished as Sonic Rush, but without the forced 'street' stylings. Brilliantly catchy, traditional Sonic sounds.
9.0 Gameplay Aside from the sailboat mini-game, every gameplay element has been honed almost to perfection - and there's plenty of it too.
9.5 Lasting Appeal Story mode, multiplayer, missions, time trials, online, leader boards, races, collect-a-thons - it's an enormous, time-consuming treat.
GagaMan wrote:IGN almost always give handheld Sonic games a 9.0. Weird.
True. And the GBA Sonics were 6's or 7's at best. They were just dull. The graphics were unique, but past that the stages were badly designed, the new music sucked, the old arranged music sucked, nothing new was really brought to the table.
I've played Sonic Rush Adventure quite a bit. It's a decent game, but the boat parts you need to do between each level are just retarded. It gets confusing sometimes you might not know who to talk to next. When you are actually playing the levels though it's pretty good. I still prefer the first Sonic Rush, it's way better and it's gameplay is right up there with the original early 90's Sonic games IMO). They got pretty much everything right with that game except the story is kind of weak. Best thing of all though is that there is no voice acting and both the characters play the same (like Sonic and Knuckles in the original Sonics).
