sold more than 100,000 units in the United Kingdom, for a total of over units sold worldwide for the GameCube. This adds up to a combined total of more than 2,758,666 units sold worldwide for both the Dreamcast and GameCube versions. Accolades Sonic Adventure 2 received several accolades, including the 2001 IGN's Editors' Choice Award. ScrewAttack called it the fifth-best Dreamcast game, and GamesRadar rated it the tenth-greatest Dreamcast game out of 25: "Despite trailing off significantly in recent years, the 3D side of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise had a surprisingly stellar start with the Sonic Adventure entries, and the 2001 sequel really amped up the action." In February 2014, IGN'''s Luke Karmali called Battle his tenth-favorite game of all time. In a video interview with Takashi Iizuka, he says Sonic Adventure 2 is his favourite Sonic game. Legacy Shadow and Rouge, who debuted in Adventure 2, have become recurring characters in the Sonic franchise. Both appeared along with new character E-123 Omega as "Team Dark," one of the playable character teams, in Sonic Heroes (2003), the follow-up to Adventure 2. A Shadow spin-off, Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), expanded on the Adventure 2 plot and featured a similar 3D platforming gameplay. With a few modifications, the plots of Adventure and Adventure 2 were adapted into the second season of the anime Sonic X (2003–06). American licensing corporation 4Kids Entertainment hired an entirely new voice cast for the English dub, but the Japanese cast from the games reprised their roles in the original version of the show.Sonic Generations (2011), released to mark the series' twentieth anniversary, contains gameplay elements and levels from various Sonic games. Elements from Sonic Adventure 2 included a remake of the City Escape stage in the console versions and a remake of the Radical Highway stage in the Nintendo 3DS version. Shadow also appears in a re-creation of his boss battle, and the Biolizard boss is re-created in the 3DS version. Notes References External links Sonic Adventure 2 at Sega's Dreamcast Minisite Sonic Adventure 2'' at Sega.com Sonic Adventure 2 Battle at SonicTeam.com 2001 video games 3D platform games Action-adventure games Dreamcast games Video games about impact events Multiplayer and single-player video games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation Network games Sega Studio USA games Sonic Team games Sonic the Hedgehog video games Terrorism in fiction Video game sequels Video games about genetic engineering Video games developed in