Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut is a remake of the original Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast. In this version, a mission mode is included, in which the player completes certain tasks to get emblems. Sonic Adventure DX also features GameCube-GBA link cable capatibility for unlockable secrets in the mini game featured in most Sonic GBA games the Tiny Chao Garden. Also as you proggesed through the game you will unlock all of the Sonic the Hedgehog games for the Sega Game Gear. Unfortunately, it recieved a critisizim due to the fact that it had more bugs and glitches than it's Dreamcast predesessor.

The game stars Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, E-102 Gamma, and Big the Cat as playable characters. Each character follows a different part of the story, but they all link together.

Gameplay
Sonic Adventure DX features two kinds of stages. Number one are the Action Stages where each individual character must fulfill a unique "goal" in order to complete the stage successfully. Number two are the Adventure Fields. Because there is no time limit or goals to complete in the Adventure Field part of the game, you are able to explore without any kind of distractions. However, in order to continue the overall game, it is necessary to find the Level Up Items that grant your character special powers as well as to locate the various Action Stage entrances scattered throughout the Adventure Field.

Reception
The GameCube port of Sonic Adventure did not recieve the critical acclaim that it's original Dreamcast version did. While the Dreamcast version recieved an overall score of 8.6 by IGN, IGN rated the DX version 5.0 critisizing it for it's "horrible" framerate, said to constently dip up and down between 60 and 30 fps, the music and voice acting is bad, and a "seriously malfunctioned camera." GameSpot however, gave it an overall score of 5.7.

Trivia
Sonic Adventure DX was originally supposed to be a GameCube only release but a year later was released for the PC.

It is said that you are able to transport Chao between Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle via the GameCube-Game Boy Advance Link Cable.