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The game involves the intertwining stories of six characters: Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose (all of whom received makeovers) and two new characters; E-102 Gamma and Big the Cat. It follows Dr. Eggman's quest to once again destroy Sonic and take over the world by finding all of the Chaos Emeralds and summoning forth the ancient monsterThis article is about monsters as a kind of legendary creature. For other uses, see Monster (disambiguation). Monster (lat. monstrum) is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. The word ChaosChaos from Sonic Adventure, is a demon composed of water. His brain is visible through his watery exterior. His original purpose was to protect the Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald and the Chao. Chaos' history Chaos originally protected the Chaos Emeral. Sonic and friends must foil his devious plan as usual.
This is the first full 3D game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and was generally considered the most impressive display of graphical prowess the genre had seen at the time. Also unique is the ability to take a Chao creature found and hatched within the game and place it onto a VMUThe VMU (short for Visual Memory Unit not Virtual Memory Unit) is the " memory card" for the Sega Dreamcast. While its most basic function is as a removable storage device, the VMU has other purposes as well. It can serve as an auxiliary display during no device for adventure, fighting, and breeding with other Chao on other VMU devices (they can be interconnected).
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This was the first game in North America and Europe where the main villain was referred to as Doctor Eggman. Previously in these locales he had been named Doctor Ivo Robotnik, with Sonic and friends using the nickname "Eggman". The manuals now refer to him as "Doctor Eggman aka Doctor Robotnik" with Sonic Adventure 2 where he starts going by the name "Doctor Eggman".
It was re-released on the Nintendo GameCube under the title Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut on June 17, 2003 in North America, June 19 in Japan, and June 27 in Europe, and later made available on PC CD-ROM. The update includes enhanced graphics and the playability of every Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear game.