

There are also billboards in the game that advertise the product.

This new product actually helped introduce the grinding technique that has been used in every 3D Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2, due to a partnership between Sonic Team and Soap to help promote the shoes. This is the only Sonic game to feature Sonic wearing Soap shoes to promote the product. Some of the levels in the game even resemble famous landmarks of the city, such as the Golden Gate Bridge and downhill roads of the city. This was the first game the San Francisco based Sonic Team USA developed. The game also introduces two new characters, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat, both on the "Dark" side. Robotnik/Eggman and try to take over the world. Sonic Adventure 2 is the first game in the series to allow the player to play through the whole game as Dr. Eggman by the entire cast of the game, and in following games in the Sonic series as well. Robotnik has been completely dropped he's now called Dr. However, in Sonic Adventure 2, the name Dr. Robotnik, instead opting to use his original Japanese moniker, Dr. It seems that starting with Sonic Adventure, Sega started to abandon the American name of the game's antagonist, Dr.
