Sonic Robo Blast 2 Gets A Major Update
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Sonic Robo Blast 2 Gets A Major Update
Sonic Robo Blast 2, an unofficial Sonic fan game made using the Doom Legacy engine, has just received a major update. via:YouTube Sonic Robo Blast 2, an unofficial Sonic fan game made using the Doom Legacy engine, has that improves and overhauls huge portions of the game. The 2.2 update, which has been five years in the making, features new graphics, a new soundtrack, and an entirely-overhauled campaign that was mostly built up from scratch. The SRB2 team released a trailer showing off all its new features. Since this is a free fan game made entirely by unpaid volunteers, there's a good chance most people haven't heard of it, so let's start at the beginning: Back in 1997, a young Sonic fan named Johnathan Wallbank used a rather bare-bones game development tool called Klik & Play to create his own 2D platformer starring Sonic, called . The result was... well... look, he was a kid, okay? I sure wasn't making anything impressive at that age, so I've got no room to judge. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY via:SonicRetro.org But as ridiculously simple as the game was, it had a role in kicking off the entire Sonic fan game community, which is notable for having a surprising amount of support from Sega, to the point where fangame developers were brought in to create 2017's . As for Wallbank, he brought together a team in 1998 to create a sequel -- this time, a 3D game using the Doom Legacy engine. The idea was to capture the feel of the old Sega Genesis sonic games in a 3D environment. Wallbank left the team in 2002, but the project just kept trucking on, and 21 years after its initial inception they've got something pretty dang impressive. It's a full-featured game with high-speed action featuring Sonic, Tails and Knuckles that does a good job of capturing the feel of the original games despite the fact that it's pretty much a Sonic mod for Doom. via:YouTube It's got the physics and momentum-based controls down pat, slopes that Sonic can use to launch himself high in the air, and a sense of speed that, while not exactly easy to get used to when its ported to a 90s FPS engine, feels authentic to the original. The game itself is only downloadable via torrent, but can be found . Source: