Sonic Adventure 2 wasn't much better but at least it didn't have Big the Cat.
Shadow the Hedgehog was also pretty awful. The story made no sense and what is even the purpose of the guns and the slow vehicles when Shadow can run at super sanic speed, use chaos blast/control/spear and carry ten times his weight naturally
Then you must've played the GameCube version, because Big The Cat had cameos everywhere in the Dreamcast, and HD versions of the game.
I liked the game and enjoyed the game, but honestly.. It seemed like SEGA tried too hard to make Shadow a badass when everyone knew he was one already.
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I have Sonic Free Riders on my shelf and I've been too nervous to play it. The Angry Joe video about it was like a huge warning not to. XD