Should I play the previous Sonic Adventure game before 2?

[notleks2411]

Title says it all. I'm not sure if they are both linked story wise.

[Starfox8641]

They Aren't, It's a seperate story between them...SA2 has the ARK story, and SA1 has the Chaos...thing...so...It's your choice...but the games are not linked storywise

[funewchie]

The two games aren't really related, like Star da Foxeh said.

The closest they come to being linked, is that Dr. Eggman makes a quick reference to an event from SA1, when reading about "Station Square saved from a life-threatening missile attack. The city has awarded it's famed prize to the boy who saved Station Square. Miles "Tails" Prower was given the Chaos Emerald in a ceremony held at city hall..."

This "attack" they mentioned is referring to an event in Tails' story in Sonic Adventure 1. To be honest, it's such a minor portion of his story, that it doesn't count as a spoiler (but I tagged it as a spoiler, anyway, just in case that, for some reason, you really didn't want to see it).

Aside from that, and the appearence of Tikal and Chaos 0 in multiplayer, there aren't any links to SA1.

[Saelune]

I'd say yes, not because of plot but because SA2 is way better than 1, so get the inferior experience out of the way and enjoy 2's improvements. I enjoyed 1, but it did not age well at all.

[notleks2411]

Cheers, guys!

[Datlossit (Inactive, check bio)]

It's up to you, i never played SADX myself till last week. SA2B was one of those games i grew up with.

They are related a tiny bit, but not majorly:

The Artificial Chaos were attempts to recreate Chaos, who was the main villain in the first game.
In the last story, there is a near perfect copy of the emerald shrine from the first game in the heart of the Cannon's Core.
funewchie already mentioned the newspaper scene above.

[Pepsi_Vanilla]

It doesn't really matter if you do/don't play Sonic Adventure DX, but I'd recommend it regardless. Despite its flaws, it's still a great game at its core, especially when it comes to; Sonic stages, Tails stages, the environment, soundtrack, and personality of the action stages.

[Zevlag]

Sonic Adventure 2 takes place after Sonic Adventure DX, and there're actually some references about the first SA. However, you don't need to play SADX to understand the story of SA2. Anyway, I recommend you to play SADX simply because is a good 3D platformer (except for the boring Big the Cat levels).