A look back at what was never had: Sonic X-treme

Sonic X-treme was originally a Genesis game which kept getting pushed to different systems before it finally died on the Sega Saturn in 1997. The game was going to star Sonic as well as have Tails, Knuckles, and Tiara (the girl Echidna from Sonic Adventure) as playable characters and they had to stop Dr. Robotnik from getting a hold of some magical rings to which he would use to take over the world and blah blah blah. Basically, the same story from all of the other Sonic games more or less.
Each of the playable characters would have different styles of play. As you can tell by the headache you now have, Sonic’s gameplay utilized a fish-eye lens perspective on his levels. Other characters like Metal Sonic, Fang the Sniper and get this, Sally Acorn and the rest of the Freedom Fighters from the cartoon show, were to make cameos […]

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