Now with this game, I’ve been downloading user-made levels and level packs and activating them via the game’s addon menu.

The closest thing we have to a modern sonic fangame is levels made in the Infinity Engine made in Unity, but the moveset is so extensive and so fast, so floaty, and so versatile that it appears pretty hard to actually design engaging levels (because depending on how the designer used it, you don’t have to do much platforming at all). I don’t mind the modern Sonic gameplay, Unleashed got pretty ridiculous with its speed but Generations toned that down a bit. This was something that the Sega game designers never understood. The project is more than 20 years old now, but in my opinion they’re finally at the point where things get interesting. Just download, unpack into a folder, and go. The only weakness is no loops, but it has half-pipes and many of the other momentum-based features.įinally, the best parts is that it is open source, is light on hardware, and does not require you to make an account to obtain a heavy launcher like Steam. It appeals to me because it plays as if you simply took the Genesis games (which I grew up with) and added a third dimension. The site has more info, but it has everything from a full campaign to several different playable characters. If you get done with the story, there are extra levels that can be unlocked, and they have an active community that is wasting no time creating addons that can easily be activated from within the game itself.

A short engine showpiece that shows off its features.

A test environment with no real game attached.

One or two levels and far from completion.

Just a collection of levels with no story.

Why do I say it is the standard for this type of fangame, I’ve seen a lot of fangame attempts on Youtube, and all of them are at least one of the following… It is based on the Doom engine, but it has a lot of graphical features that Doom simply didn’t have like slopes and multi-layered geometry. With the 2.2 release, this game really makes itself the only 3D Sonic fangame that feels truly complete with rich and varied levels with a beginning and an end.

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