Of course, it doesn't start out that way. It's a shame that the original game wasn't a stellar sequel to begin with, or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle would have been a magnificent title for Cubers to own. Sonic's first GameCube release was a port of Sonic Adventure 2, which featured six different playable characters including Sonic and his new rival Shadow. The average human being back in 2001 would think the rivalry between the two developers in the SNES/Genesis days would create a bitter hatred, but Sega saw otherwise. Realizing the blue hedgehog could not gain any popularity on the ill-fated Dreamcast, Sega released some of his games on another tiny platform: the Nintendo GameCube. Although Sega hoped to make a gaming renaissance on the Sega Dreamcast, it was overlooked due to the hype machine known as the Playstation 2. Sonic was battered and beaten, being featured in lackluster games on a dying platform known to mankind as the Sega Saturn. The average human being back in 2001 would think. 'Sonic was battered and beaten, being featured in lackluster games on a dying platform known to mankind as the Sega Saturn.

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