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Arguably the worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog family, Knuckles' Chaotix was created by the original Sonic team and has basically the same type of spinning, dashing, jumping gameplay elements found in the original game. It has all sorts of nifty effects (including scaling and rotation), it's very colorful, and it sounds great. Players zip through loops, speed over collapsing bridges, dodge a variety of obstacles, cruise down roller coaster tracks through a vertical maze, all while picking up a number of power-ups. So, what's the problem? Sensing that the series needed a fresh element, the designers incorporated into the action an ill-advised bungee cord, which forces players to be tethered to a computer- or human-controlled partner. The connection enables players to throw their partner and gain powerful bursts of speed, but it kills much of the fun by making the gameplay unnecessarily clumsy and cumbersome. ~ Brett Alan Weiss, All Game Guide