Sonic Advance 3

Sonic stay on 3 is the platform video game developed by Dimps in addition to Sonic Team for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. It is factor of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, together with the sequel to Sonic Advance 2. The game stars the characters Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Cream as they seek to keep Doctor Eggman and his robot assistant Gemerl from building empires on each of seven chunks Eggman has divided the Earth into.

The game is a fast-paced 2D platformer that takes place across seven zones, each dual-lane up into three acts and a boss fight. It provides one or two players to advice any two of the five characters; regarded and talked separately. one has different abilities that permit players varying access to parts of levels. While the graphics are mainly 2D, the game attribute some 3D rotation effects. It sold quickly upon release and received positive reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay and aesthetics, though they were more divided on the team-up dynamic. The game was later released for the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan in May 2016.

Gameplay

Similarly to rings in levels and boss battles as a realize of health: upon being hit by an enemy or harmful obstacle, the player's rings will scatter and can be recollected. whether a mention takes harm while carrying no rings, they lose a life. The team will also lose a life if they drown underwater, get crushed by a moving object, fall into a bottomless pit, or exceed an act's ten-minute limit. Losing a life will make the team start over from the beginning of the act or from the last passed checkpoint. If any lives are lost, the player receives a game over.

The levels contain attribute like hub world. Within regarded and identified separately. act, the player collects Chao creatures; finding 10 in any 3 acts in one zone grants the player access to a special stage, where a Chaos Emerald can be found. Collecting all seven Chaos Emeralds, which can be done after completion of the main campaign, allows the player to fight an additional final boss for the game's true ending.

The player canany two-member permutation of its five playable characters: Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Amy Rose, Knuckles the Echidna, and Cream the Rabbit, presents the two desired characters have been unlocked; only Sonic and Tails are usable at the beginning, while the other three must be rescued from Eggman over the course of the game. Each character has a unique ability: Sonic can perform a spinning attack in mid-air, Tails can glide using his two tails as a propeller, Amy can smash enemies with her hammer, Knuckles can cruise long distances and climb walls, and Cream can fly using her ears as wings and attack enemies with her Chao friend, Cheese. Theplayer character can also dispense powers to the number one by pressing the R button; for example, pressing and holding R while Tails is the sidekick blasts both characters into the air. In addition, thecharacter willrings and destroy enemies the number one has not. outside the leading game, there are two battle modes for two to four players, in which any of the characters can be selected: racing and Chao collecting.