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Sonic Adventure 2 was unveiled in June of 2000, at E3. During this time, Sonic Adventure 2 was headed in a completely different direction. There would be three playable characters; Sonic, Knuckles, and Eggman. At the time, Shadow was just a cutscene character. How the game went at first was that what you do in the game differs what happens later. This was eventually incarnated into “Shadow the Hedgehog” for the Gamecube. When the trailer for the game was revealed, fans were outraged, for the fact that there were missing characters (e.g. Tails)
Before he had his SOAP shoes in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic had his sneakers from the 2D games. The SOAP shoes enabled Sonic to grind on rails. Also Shadow’s original name was “Terios”, which means, “reflection of”, and Rouge’s original name was “Nails”. Shadow was also referred to as “Dark Sonic” in a preview showing off some concept art of Sonic Adventure 2.
Some unused videos were found hidden in the game’s code by Mariosegafreak
Thanks to FullMetalMC, CrashAndSonicChao, and Shade3c for the contributions!
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8 Responses to Sonic Adventure 2 [Beta - Dreamcast]
MonkeyCrossing2
October 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
you see that this version is almost the same as the original….
Shade3c
November 4th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I have some information to share with y’all:
Shadow’s original name was “Terios” and Rouge’s original name was “Nails”. Shadow was also referred to as “Dark Sonic” in a preview showing off some concept art of Sonic Adventure 2. He wasn’t intended to playable (along with Tails and Rouge) in the original game, either.
monokoma
November 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thanks Shade! :) I’m going to add your info in the description
MPNagem89
March 23rd, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Happy 20 year Anniversary Sonic, happy 30 year anniversary Mario and happy 10 year anniversary Shadow I hope you’re all happy.
Mariosegafreak
August 23rd, 2011 at 4:02 am
I have found some unused footage on the DC disk. I myself uploaded it. I think it’s trailer stuff or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqidNsXeLKI
monokoma
August 24th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
THanks Mariosegafreak! Some of these scenes are interesting :O
Superstarxalien169
August 1st, 2012 at 5:12 pm
I found this video showing very beta footage of the game. You can also see Shadow looks different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9f7vjD-9WA&feature=g-vrec
steph
January 29th, 2013 at 1:19 am
Hmm. The bet for this and the first one reminds me of some of the stuff in the 06 game. What a tradjety that was.