Time to lay an old X-Treme myth to rest

Various people around here have claimed to have played Sonic X-Treme at one point, right?

First of all, Sonic X-Treme was only EVER playable at E3 1996. Everywhere else was video footage.


Big game sites state that people were not impressed with the short demo that was available at E3, which leads onto everyone thinking the game wasn't all that good, right?

Yes, they do. Want to know why? Because it was the Fang Boss arena coded by Chris Coffin. Without a boss. Would you have a good impression of a game if you played a boss arena which had no boss? I think not.


Mike Wallis Quotes for evidence.

So. Unless you went to E3 1996, or worked for sega, you never played X-Treme. You also can't say it was bad because people said the E3 build was bad.

Thankyou.

 

Well, the only build that was ever playable ANYWHERE, would have been a Chris Coffin boss build, which until the last 5 months of the project, did not represent X-Treme in its entirety. The only other place it was supposed playable is Epcot, at disney, which I am currently investigating.

I will of course confirm about press, but I am quite sure that any press coverage where the game was played, if any at all (I can't find any where they say they have played it!), was done under supervision from Sega.

Developers privatly sharing is of course possible, but that was not the point of this topic :P

 

The annonymous collector build is either on the NiGHTS engine, or a very very early build of when Chris Coffin's engine became the main one.

 

Chris Coffins Boss engine was originally for bosses only, but later became the main engine for the entire game.