Sonic Battle

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Box art for Sonic Battle.

Sonic Battle is a fighting game for the Game Boy Advance. The gameplay consists of 2D sprites fighting in 3 dimensional environments similar to the Double Dragon games. The special move configuration is very similar to Super Smash Bros. in that you can pick it up and play, and that there are no complicated combos you need to memorize to perform special moves.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Playable

[edit] Unlockable

E-102 Gamma (No episode)
Chaos (No episode)
E-121 Phi (Only in multiplayer mode when two people choose the same character)

[edit] Arenas/Unlockable

Emerald Beach (Sonic, Tails and Emerl's story)
Tails' Lab (Tails, enter to virtual training in Emerl's story)
Chao Ruins (Knuckles)
Battle Highway (Shadow)
Club Rouge (Rouge)
Amy's Room (Amy)
Library (Cream)
Metal Depot (Chaos Gamma)
Holy Summit (Chaos)
Death Egg (Has to be unlocked by completing story mode)
Colosseum (Used during virtual training, only available during Emerl's story)
Green Hill (Has to be unlocked by completing story mode)

All arenas except for Death Egg can be used in Multiplayer.

[edit] Story

About 4000 years ago, a sentient weapon was created by an ancient civilization. After being lost for millennia, the weapon, called a Gizoid, was unearthed and researched by Prof. Gerald Robotnik. It remained dormant for another half century before being discovered by, of all people, resident would-be ruler of the world and Gerald's grandson, Dr. Eggman. Frustrated at his inability to get the dormant Gizoid to work properly, Eggman dumped the contraption at Emerald Beach... where it was discovered once again, this time by planet's resident hero, Sonic the Hedgehog.

The Gizoid, which Sonic dubs Emerl, gets wrapped up in the affairs of Sonic's friends, allies and rivals. Through his encounters with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cream, Gamma, Rouge, and Shadow, Emerl grows and evolves from a soulless robot into a fun-loving mech with personality traits from all of the above. But while the gang is having fun raising their new mechanical toy, there are those who recognize Emerl's true power. Now that the Gizoid is working again, Eggman's got his eye on it, Rouge wants to turn it into a master thief, and Shadow senses that, despite their efforts to humanize him, Emerl is still designed and programmed to be a weapon of mass destruction.

[edit] Trivia

Some fans think that Sonic Battle's story takes place after Shadow the Hedehog and before Shadow joined G.U.N., for in Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow doesn't know of the ARK or Maria Robotnik, but in Sonic Battle he does.
Oddly, the seven Chaos Emeralds are all green in this game, and the Master Emerald does not have its own separate sprite, while the shattered emerald has it's own sprite for the shards.
Strangely, when Sonic gets the Master Emerald, he states "A Master Emerald" but this might be a typo.
The story is later continued in Sonic Advance 3 (in which a new robot, Gemerl, is built from Emerl's data), and heavily referenced in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
Some fans consider the game's story to be not canon to the rest of the series (and by a far stretch, Sonic Advance 3 and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood), due to it's contradictive nature in some respects, be it the false coloration of the Emeralds or the changes to Gerald's reports in respect to the time they were written in. [1]