The greatest Sonic game we never got to play

@ViolentLee What about Sonic 4 Episode 1? I thought it was pretty good.
Sonic went back to his 2D roots, but with a 3D feel.
On another Note: IMHO I think some of Microsoft's people need to get their hands on this and fix it up a bit... It looks as if it may actually be interesting. Though Sony could fix it up pretty good too. I don't care who fixes it up as long as both consoles get it.

It's amazing that something so promising got killed off by a company who put out so much shit under the same banner. I mean, IMHO there hasn't been a really good Sonic game since.

Some of the videos look pretty cool. I'd have been a little concerned about the pace of the game though - sections where you're tearing across the levels at speed seem to be few and far between

it looks similar to mario galaxy, in that its spherical and confusing. it looks like it would have been great, if they had just moved back the release date a little further.

I remember hearing about this game when I was younger, and I was SOOOOO waiting for it. Only to realize that it was cancelled. Damn, I was pissed that day. I remember my cousin coming in my room, asking me if I wanted to play STH2 with him or something, and I gave him this angry look like, "Why the F**K you even asking me, leave me alone." Then like, 2-3 days later, I felt better again.

Man, I just wish that game was released...

looks like a early mario galixie

ahhhh I remember the 2-d Sonic ahhhh those were the good days

Interesting article. I first heard of Sonic X-treme in Nintendo Power a couple months ago, and it keeps coming back ever since (especially on this site).

Even so, I must say that I don't like the looks of this game AT ALL! No disrespect to the people who worked their butts off to make this thing, but to me, it looks HORRIBLE! Navigation appears to be the absolute worst the series has ever encountered, and the 3D control looks even clunkier than some modern versions. Again, I stress that I don't want to devalue anybody's work, insult anyone, or anything like that, but this is my honest opinion on the matter.

I feel that all in all, Sonic should have never left 2D, period. But since he did (and I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for this one), I say that Sonic Unleashed is one of the best of the bunch. The night levels get a level of bashing they DO NOT deserve, and everybody can more or less agree that the day levels are awesome (any cheap deaths are caused by problems the series has had since game 1).

I'm not even a die-hard Sonic fanboy (grew up with Nintendo, and bought a Genesis on Ebay a few years ago), but I still think it's horrible how he's constantly attacked and ridiculed, when his games aren't even half as bad as people say (barring Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, whose demo I couldn't stand, and whose story looked NAUSEATING based on things I've seen on this site).

Sonic as a series deserves a good deal more respect than it's given lately (and Sonic IS better than real hedgehogs, thank you very much!). As with most things in this world, he's bashed so much that it's literally IMPOSSIBLE for his stuff to be as bad as people say.

Well, that's my crazy-butt long rant. I do ask that people don't go about flaming me TOO much. All I did is tell the truth, and a lot of you know it. Dozens of games have problems as bad as Sonic titles and worse every year, but his get the most negative talk, and for no good reason whatsoever.

They have a beta at http://www.emuparadise.org/Betas/
I havent tried it but thought you would like to know

damm

That software looks truly progessive. What a damn shame.

What a missed oppurtunity. Things would be different fo Sega, we would be playing the Dreamcast 2 and the Sonic and Mario would still be well and alive in school playgrounds.
Although I tuned out after the (in my opinion) great Sonic Adventure game for the dreamcast, I never really did like Sonic after he became "edgey" and everyone of his games had to be stuffed with obnoxiously cute characters( We're paying for a Sonic game, not a Cream the rabbit game!). Eventually though, I hope Sega will find a good game for Sonic.

Tragic. But I do find the fish-eye world a bit disorienting, but it certainly shows flavor, and a glimmer of hope for Saturn.

Ugh. Bernie Stolar. The world would have been a better place without you. "Saturn is not in our future"?! STOLAR is not in our future. Had this guy not been in SEGA at the time people would probably be playing SEGA's newest console and Sonic would get the respect he had back in the Genesis days. (Genesis was the USA's Mega Drive for those of you across the pond)

To the guy above me, keep in mind those vids are demos. With further editing, detail, and better movement controls the game would have been different.