Sonic 3 and Sonic 2 Compare and Contrast
By: Dax C
Sonic the Hedgehog is a character in a popular game series. He was in his first game in 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog. I am going to compare and contrast two of his earlier games, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Personally, I think that Sonic 3 is better. First, let’s talk about what each game is about. The game Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was about a blue Hedgehog named Sonic, and his buddy Miles Prower, also know as Tails, who had to go defeat the evil Dr. Robotnik. That game was the 2nd console game Sonic starred in, which was released in 1992. In Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic and Tails again had to defeat Dr. Robotnik. It was released in 1994. This game, actually, was the 4th console game Sonic starred in. The 3rd was Sonic the Hedgehog CD, which was released in 1993. That game was about traveling trough time. It was also released for the Sega Genesis, with the Sega CD attachment. This essay will explain some of the similarities, and differences between Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
There are many similarities between Sonic 2, and Sonic 3. In both the games, you could play as Sonic, Tails, or both. As an added bonus feature, if you used the lock-on feature of Sonic and Knuckles with these 2 games, you could play as Knuckles in them. These games were released for the system called the Sega Genesis, which had 16 bit graphical capacity. But if you used the 32x add on, you could play 32 bit games. If you chose play as both Sonic and Tails, you could have a person plug in another controller to play as Tails. These games both include the 7 Chaos Emeralds. If you could collect all 7 of them by playing the special stages, you could get Super Sonic. Both games also included rings, which you could collect. If you collected 100 of them, you could earn an extra “life”.
There are many differences between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3. In Sonic 2, if you played as Tails, he was just like Sonic, but shorter. But if you played as him in Sonic 3, he could use his two tails in a propeller motion, allowing him to fly! This is one major improvement that made me like Sonic 3 better. It showed more ability, instead of having Tails be pretty much just like Sonic. Well, also in both of the games, you went through zones. In Sonic 3, there were 6 zones, each with 2 acts. In Sonic 2 though, it was a lot more complicated. there was 11 zones. 3 zones had 1 act, 7 zones had 2 acts, and 1 zone had 3 acts. In these games, you went through special stages. They were accessed in different ways though. In Sonic 2, you got into the special stage by collecting 50 rings, and touching a sign post. But in Sonic 3, you had to find the hidden giant rings in the acts. Sign post still were in Sonic 3. If you collected 50 rings and touched one, you would be transported to a place with bumpers, where you could collect items that fell out of a giant gum ball machine. In that minigame, you could get rings, a bubble, a giant bumper, and shields. In Sonic 3, there were 3 different types of shields. With Sonic you could get a fire shield, which lets you jump then do a quick boost to the way you’re facing, a bubble shield, which lets you breathe underwater and bounce, and a lightning shield, which magnetics rings to you and lets you do a double jump. With Tails, you could still get the shields, but you couldn’t bounce with the bubble shield, or get the boost with the fire shield, or do a double jump with the lightning shield. Sonic 2 only had one shield, which basically only let you get protected from one hit.The last difference I have to share, is that you could save in Sonic 3, but not in Sonic 2. That feature I really liked, because I don’t usually play one game for a very long time, so it’s nice to be able to continue later on.
Those are the differences, and similarities that I have for the two games Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Both were great games, but still, I like Sonic 3 better. A quote from IGN (a game rating company) pretty much agrees with me, and says, "Sonic 1 we called impressive. Sonic 2 we labeled great. Sonic 3, though, is the best of them all – and deservingly earns the highest score of the trilogy.” Well, you may be wondering now, why I choose these two games as my topic? Actually, I was born in 2000. That is when the Nintendo 64 was out, and the Sega Dreamcast was just getting started. When I was 4 though, I didn’t have any of those ‘new’ consoles. I had a Sega Genesis. Sonic was all I knew about. Mario wasn’t even known to exist to me. So, I grew up with these games. I thought it would be nice to choose 2 of these games for my topic. That is why Sonic 2 and 3 were my topic. So in conclusion, Sonic 3, is a lot better than Sonic 2.
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