Sonic's Army

Sonic's Army is a third-person shooter in the vein of Gears of War, complete with a cover-based system, squad-based mechanics, and lots of guns. This game is the first to introduce three new Sonic characters, dubbed the AVU (Anti-Vigilante Unit), an all-female-hedgehog team trained by the GUN Army to hunt down and eliminate vigilantes like Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends. Also included in the game is a base-management simulator, where Sonic and the Anti-Vigilante unit recruit and train their respective troops to either maintain the base or explore the battlefield to fight enemies and gather resources.
==Story==
Two years ago, during the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 1, Sonic used to rescue three hedgehog girls, named Tears the light-blue hedgehog (as in sadness), Temper the red hedgehog (as in anger), and Terror the green hedgehog (as in fear). The three hedgehog girls were all heavily traumatized by Eggman, all the way to the point of fighting each other. Tears took her sadness out on the other two hedgehog girls, while Terror took her fear on Temper and Tears, and Temper took her anger out on them. Horrified by what happened to those three hedgehog girls, Sonic vowed to find peace for the girls in any way possible, even fight Eggman.
Two years later, the various forest animals grew so inspired by Sonic and his seventeen friends' heroic actions, just as the other seventeen were inspired by Sonic, that they joined him and formed an army of vigilantes, known only as Sonic's Army. Together, they would fight-off against Eggman's robot army and save the world countless times over. However, in the process, they would become wanted by the GUN Army for vigilantism, the illegal act of unauthorized crime-fighting, and a war between Sonic's band of vigilantes and the GUN army would erupt.
Meanwhile, Tears, Temper, and Terror, the same hedgehog girls Sonic rescued from Eggman in the past, would join the GUN Army to become heroes like Sonic, known only as the AVU. However, when they would receive their assignment of racing against Sonic's Army for the Chaos Emeralds and using them against Sonic's Army, at first they questioned their commander's orders, but then followed those orders anyway after being threatened with a harsh punishment.
Thus did a war between Sonic's Army and the GUN Army's AVU began.
==Gameplay==
===Single-Player Campaign===
Players pick one of two sides, either Sonic's Army, where they play the game as Sonic and his seventeen friends, each split into six teams of three, or the GUN Army, playing as the AVU. When playing as Sonic's Army, each level has a different playable team, including Team Sonic, Team Rose, Team Dark, Chaotix Team, Babylon Rogues, and Team Sol (which includes Silver the hedgehog, Blaze the cat, and Marine the raccoon). Each member of a team comes in one of three classes, including light (who wields a sniper-rifle, submachine-gun, and pistol, and can use a cloaking-device to turn invisible), heavy (who wields a launcher, assault-rifle, and shotgun, and can use an overshield for extra temporary protection), and support (who can heal and use gadgets to go along with their pistols and submachine-guns). They include:
*Lightweights
**Sonic (of Team Sonic)
**Amy Rose (of Team Rose)
**Shadow (of Team Dark)
**Espio (of the Chaotix Team)
**Jet (of the Babylon Rogues)
**Blaze (of Team Sol)
*Heavyweights
**Knuckles (of Team Sonic)
**Big (of Team Rose)
**Omega (of Team Dark)
**Vector (of the Chaotix Team)
**Storm (of the Babylon Rogues)
**Silver (of Team Sol)
*Supports
**Tails (of Team Sonic)
**Cream (of Team Rose)
**Rouge (of Team Dark)
**Charmy (of the Chaotix Team)
**Wave (of the Babylon Rogues)
**Marine (of Team Sol)
Meanwhile, the GUN Army's levels are the same as Sonic's Army's levels, only with the AVU as the playable characters while each of the six teams are bosses. The AVU include
*Tears (support)
*Temper (heavyweight)
*Terror (lightweight)
At the beginning of each mission, players pick one of the three teammates to directly control, seeing the entire mission through their eyes. As with most cover-based third-person shooters like Gears of War and Mass Effect 2, the various teams can take cover to regenerate health and reload ammo, then pop-out of cover to aim and shoot at the various enemies. Players can also issue orders to their squad-mates, such as take position, attack the same target, or fall-back, as well as use a variety of different powers depending on which character the player picked to play as.
====Home-Base====
Underneath Tails' workshop is a hidden base that Sonic (and in-turn the player) can manage. To manage it, he needs gold-rings to pay for new recruits and supplies, and he can gain those rings from completing missions. He can then spend those rings on either food, medical-supplies, crafting-materials, new recruits or base-expansions. The recruits are each split into one of two categories, with each category split into four, including:
*Front-Lines
**Soldier (strong defense)
**Anti-Tank/Air (strong offense)
**Scout (high speed)
**Sniper (high range and precision)
*Home-Base
**R&D (to research new equipment)
**Mess-Hall (to build troop-morale by cooking food)
**Medical (to heal wounded troops)
**Intel (to communicate vital information to troops)
Sonic can also send troops to various mini-missions, a tower defense-style game where Sonic's troops battle GUN soldiers to gather more vital rings, food, medical-supplies, and crafting-materials. Any troops that survive the mini-missions returns to base to have their health and morale restored with first-aid and food, respectively. The base is also where Tails and his R&D team conduct research and development of new weapons, equipment, and upgrades, which can be used for the various missions Sonic and friends go on. To develop new, stronger equipment, Sonic has to recruit researchers and gather crafting-materials, and the more researchers and materials, the more equipment they can develop.
The various troops within Sonic's staff can also level up their stats. As they complete their respective jobs, they earn experience-points needed to level-up their skills, so that they can each perform better on the job.
However, there's a limit on how many troops Sonic can recruit into his army. To increase the troop-limit, he has to spend rings on base-expansions to increase the size of his base. As the base gets larger, he can recruit more troops to either handle the home-base responsibilities, or go out on the battlefield to fight GUN soldiers and gather more rings needed to further expand on the base.
Players that choose to see the story through the Anti-Vigilante Unit's perspectives will do the same base-management activities, just at the GUN army's headquarters rather than Sonic's base.
===Multiplayer===
As with most other shooters, there's an online multiplayer aspect. Up to twelve-players, six playing as six of the eighteen members of Sonic's Army, the other six playing as either one of the members of the AVU or a generic GUN soldier, can play on each map. The modes include your typical free-for-all deathmatch, team-deathmatch, capture-the-flag, and VIP, where teams take turns defending one of their own from the opposing team, whether it's a member of Team Sonic when it's Sonic's Army's turn, or a member of the AVU when it's the GUN Army's turn.
When playing as members of Sonic's Army, each player is assigned a set of three characters hailing from each team, including a lightweight, a heavyweight, and a support. That means anyone playing as Sonic won't have teammates playing as Tails and Knuckles, for example, instead playing as one of three members of each of the other assigned teams, such as Shadow for player two, Amy for three, Silver for four, Espio for five, and Jet for six. As for the GUN Army, one of the players is assigned a selection of either Tears, Temper, or Terror of the AVU, while the other five play as the generic GUN soldiers.
At the beginning of each match, players pick between one of the members of each three-man team, including either a lightweight, a heavyweight, or support. When the player dies, he's given the option of switching to another character and respawn as that said character, in order to utilize different strategies for different situations.
===Co-op===
There are three different co-op modes, including assault, defense, and boss-battle. In assault-mode, up to three players, each playing as a lightweight, heavyweight, or support on the same team (such as Team Sonic or the AVU, for example), must work together to traverse a long, linear level filled with enemies until they reach the end. Defense-mode is where three players on the same team have a limited amount of lives to survive a never-ending onslaught of enemies, similar to horde-mode in Gears of War and firefight in Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach. Boss-battle-mode has three players combat a large, powerful boss.
Once players complete each assault-mission or boss-battle, the three-man teams can then display their completion times on an online leaderboard, as well as earn stars and achievements depending on their performances. As for defense, teams can display their longest survival times and number of enemy-kills on those leaderboards as well.
==See also==
*Sonic's Nation
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