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Shadow the Hedgehog -
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Game Synopsis
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Sonic the Hedgehog is colored bright blue and
generally has a sunny disposition. His polar
opposite is Shadow, a
darker hedgehog with street credentials who has no
qualms about packing heat. Bazooka style, hell
raising heat. In Sega's expansion of the Sonic
franchise, players guide the anti-heroic Shadow and
hit both enemies as well as members of law
enforcement in an adventure where he attempts to
recover lost memories. The price for the memories is
Seven Chaos Emeralds that Sonic has to recover for a
disembodied voice that haunts him from the immediate
outset of the game. As Shadow travels the landscape,
the voice offers instructions as well as
admonishments...
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NCS Game Notes
* The intro to the game shows Shadow loading up
a submachine gun and then riding on a hog towards a
rampaging beast on the street. He crashes the bike
into the creature and leaps upwards, with submachine
gun in hand. He then fires away at the beast and
blurs in and out while police shoot at him and the
monster. In outer space, a satellite opens up and
readies a beam and more images flash. Yes, it's a
convoluted and disjointed intro...
* In the Story Mode, the intro begins with Shadow
standing in the outskirts of a metropolis as he
contemplates. He has amnesia and thinks of the name
Shadow the Hedgehog and has a recollection of a girl
named Maria who may have been shot while being
pursued by uniformed guards. As he stands there,
monsters descends from a red sky and wreak havoc on
the city. As he is about to turn away, a voice
beckons him and commands him to find Seven Chaos
Emeralds and bring them to him. Explosions rock the
ground around Shadow and he decides to get the Chaos
Emeralds to find out his past and what exactly has
happened to him.
* The first stage is in Westopolis and begins with
Shadow rocketing upwards towards the top of a
building before gravity takes hold and he starts
plunging downwards. Soon, he's at ground level and
is joined by Sonic and the two hedgehogs team up to
destroy the invading creatures and pick up rings.
Sonic offers advice on playing the game and a Chaos
Emerald may be picked up close to where Shadow first
lands.
* Shadow has two targets: the creatures that are
causing all manner of havoc and the uniformed guards
who are roaming the streets. To attack, press the X
button to loft Shadow up in the air and then press X
again to dive at a target and destroy it. As Shadow
zooms across the level, colorful ? icons may be
visited to pick up tips and glean objectives.
* Shadow may fire his gun by pressing the SQUARE
button. Firearms may be upgraded by destroying
creatures and appropriating their weaponry. Shadow
will eventually be able to use a laser pistol that's
almost as big as he is and another laser blaster
that's shaped like a horseshoe magnet.
* As Shadow ventures further in the levels, the
coarse and eerie voice from the beginning of the
game will guide him to new objectives and also scold
him when he destroys the dark creatures that are
terrorizing the city. He tells Shadow that since the
dark creatures have the same coloring as he does,
they're somehow related.
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This document is ©NCSX 2005. All rights reserved. No
reproduction in whole or in part of this document
may be made without express written consent of
National Console Support, Inc.
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