Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
An ancient evil lurking within the Master Emerald has been unleashed from its slumber by the devious Dr. Eggman and is on the verge of becoming the ultimate monster using the 7 Chaos Emeralds. Only Sonic and…
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is an adventure developed by Sonic Team, released 17 June 2003 on Nintendo GameCube and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2003. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Doctor Robotnik seeks a new way to defeat his longtime nemesis Sonic and conquer the world. During his research, he learns about an entity called Chaos—a creature that, thousands of years ago, helped to protect the Chao and the all-powerful Master Emerald, which balances the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds. When a tribe of echidnas sought to steal the power of the Emeralds, breaking the harmony they had with the Chao, Chaos retaliated by using the Emeralds' power to transform into a monstrous beast, Perfect Chaos, and wipe them out. Before it could destroy the world, Tikal, a young echidna who befriended Chaos, imprisoned it in the Master Emerald along with herself. Eggman releases Chaos…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is the 111th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Speed DX in 2003. Its critic score of 54 is 17 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points below the year average. Players rate it 62, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 series, ATI Radeon™ X1600 Video Card with 256MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut launched on 17 June 2003, within three weeks of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Viewtiful Joe and The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Viewtiful Joe, The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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