Cover Feature - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Game Players, February 1994)

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This article is from the February 1994 issue of "Game Players" magazine.

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The Sonic warrior returns! Coming hot on the heels of the Sonic-fest - Sonic Spinball, Sonic Chaos, and Sonic CD - Sonic's back again in Sega's sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 3. And what a sequel! Dr. Robotnik is still alive (big suprise)! Having crash-landed his Death Egg ship on mysterious Floating Island, Robotnik plans to use the power of the Chaos Emeralds to repair it. And who can he get to help him in this wilderness? Why, Knuckles. He's Robotnik's latest henchman, and he's a red I-roll-up-in-a-ball-too echidna. The only living descendant of a lost civilization (a civilization of echidnas, presumably), Knuckles has been duped into believing that Sonic and Tails are his enemies. It doesn't take long for him to steal the emeralds, and now Sonic must get them back before Robotnik can launch his Death Egg! Each of Sonic 3's six new zones are three times as big as in Sonic 2, which many criticized for it's... now shall we say - brevity. Sonic 3 is packed with new enemies to battle and new items for Sonic (and Tails) to use. The graphics are a knockout, and nearly all the character animation was painstakingly rendered using 3-D models instead of flat cartoons, making it smooth, smooth, smooth. Watch Sonic tumble and spin! In short, Sonic 3 is the best Sonic yet! All hail the Hedgehog King!

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