Sonic Xtreme

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-greatest-sonic-game-we-never-got-to-play/a-2008042416124625044

There's a pretty good read about an unreleased Sonic game here. Seems like a shame for all the egos invovled. Also shows that making a game wouldn't necessarily be the great shakes we'd assume it to be.

Do you reckon this truly predates Mario Galaxy's gameplay? I always thought Galaxy simply embellished on the planetoid missions from Ratchet and CLank anyway.

 

[Joker]

It certainly predates Mario Galaxy, I've seen videos of it for years.

 

[Havok83]

yeah that clip is about 10 years old or so. Long before Mario Galaxy's time

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Yeah I knew that, I thought it was a good read and this was for people who might not know.

 

[Joker]

It was a good read, really shed some light on the long-mysterious game. I'm still sad we never got it.

 

[SouLeSS]

Summary of the 10 page article?

 

[Joker]

"There was this awesome sonic game in production for Saturn, the suits at Sega Japan didn't like it, despite it being revolutionary, and doing alot of the thing Mario Galaxy later did, and it never got made."

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Thats pretty much it!

 

[venom892]

Wow this Game showed alot of promise.The current Sonic Team should take note.That game maybe could have saved the Saturn.

 

[Timstuff]

An excellent read, to be sure. I had read about Sonic Xtreme back when I was a hardcore Sonic-obsessed yungin' (who even went so far as to post on Sonic message boards daily, for some bizarre reason), but I've never actually seen it in motion. The fish-eye camera engine is truly a spectacle, and I'm sure that Sega Saturn would have lasted longer than it did if only Sega hadn't been the war-torn feudal landscape it once was.

I thought the Sonic Adventure games were good. Not as good as the Genesis games, but they were still good. For me, it was when they got into the ******ation that was Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, "New" Sonic The Hedgehog, and Sonic Riders that Sonic's legacy fell apart. There's just too many friggin' characters and the gameplay has only gotten worse after Sonic Adventure 2. Sonic needs to be uncomplicated, but have enough depth that there's a significant difference between people who are good at it and people who aren't. Complexity and depth are not always tied at the hip, and the older Sonic games were a good example of that. Hopefully, with the next Sonic game Sega will finally pull their collective heads out of their butts and bring the Blue wonder back to his former glory.

BTW, given the acclaim that the "King of Kong" documentary recieved, I wonder how a documentary about Sonic Xtreme would fare? It could be an interesting flick, I must say. I think that it was a symptom of Sega's overall broken infrastructure, which they couldn't recover from even with the Dreamcast.

 

[Silverstein]

What was that website Sonic HQ?