Although you are capable of playing through the currently
available levels solo, the game shines when playing online with others.
Not exact matches
It's definately a co-op orientated game, but
solo players can still complete entire
levels on the Bronze difficulty, which is the lowest of the three settings
available, with a little bit of effort.
Solo Mode The following flashpoints are
available in
Solo Mode at the indicated
level.
There's also a detailed global leaderboard for the
solo levels, with each playthrough of a completed episode
available as a replay, meaning you can watch other players» successful attempts for hints on how to approach especially hairy gauntlets.
Three stages unique to Shadow are
available, each providing a decent amount of challenge and a number of musical callbacks to both his Dreamcast debut and his
solo adventure in 2005, all on top of Shadow being interchangeable with Modern Sonic in the main campaign for a number of the other hedgehog's
levels.
What's more, the campaign itself is much meatier than the ones
available in each respective IP's
solo games, shaking things up with each
level being much more inventive than the last.
There's plenty of chances to
level up everything you attain thanks to the bevy of modes
available for both
solo - and multiplayer - focused players.
Todd Smith: Which is kind of funny to me today, but — so you go from that
level of support to, if you're going to go
solo, it's literally just you unless you have the forethought to make arrangements to get some services provided to you that are now
available that just frankly weren't
available back in 2006.