Now this is a treat! A trio of original, never-before-seen screenshots of cancelled SEGA Saturn game 'Sonic X-treme' have been uncovered and shared on social media, courtesy of SEGA's retro team at SEGA Forever.
According to the SEGA Forever post, these are the real deal - original screenshots of the game in action that were prepared for use in promotional material and magazine articles. These aren't scans of existing images either.
If you've never seen us harp on about the game (and we've been doing so since 2001!), Sonic X-treme was an ill-fated Sonic the Hedgehog platformer that was destined for the SEGA Saturn before it was unceremoniously cancelled. It was being developed by SEGA Technical Institute in the US, as Sonic Team was busy at the time working on NiGHTS and other projects, and as a result it would have been the key Sonic title for the system if it had released.
Unfortunately, a number of production issues - including stressed developers working themselves to sickness under tight deadlines and a refusal from Yuji Naka to leverage Sonic Team's NiGHTS engine - ultimately led the project to its doom. Which is a shame because as you can see, it brought Sonic into the 3D space using some interesting visual and gameplay approaches.
You can see in these crisp new screens a number of enemies planned for the game, as well as two specific stages and the use of one of Sonic's new moves for the game, the Spin Slash. There are rings littered across the stage geometry, pointing to one of the project's gameplay gimmicks - being able to run up walls and have the camera follow you around as you go.
It's always nice to see high quality material from SEGA's vault, and even better when it's long lost content concerning unreleased games. We appreciate SEGA Forever's work to keep fans informed of lovely new media like this, and we hope they have more to share up its collective sleeve in the future.
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