Something about Sonic Jam you didn't know?

Although we didn't know, I think a lot of people here pondered if this was true. Now we know. Thank you!

 

I've known about this for a while, but couldn't remember where I had read it. I don't know if it was from the same magazine, I think it was a web site based off that article.

 

I think that a lot of speculation tends to be utterly worthless without any type of evidence. In addition, I also would not have suspected Sonic World, of all things, to resemble how the next major Sonic game would have played. So this is definitely a great find—props to you!

I really hope their idea of Sonic Adventure wasn't meant to handle that bad, though...

 

I have seen this said for years, but never really knew where it came from, so it is no surprise.

What I wonder about more is, was the game more similar to Sonic World instead of "real life" ? I really liked Sonic World and it annoyes me that no other 3D game has ever tried to actually be a Sonic game.

 

They even had Sonic Adventure's new running animation in the World model (the one where Sonic lets his arms fly backwards as he runs). No surprises there, but it's a bit disappointing SEGA didn't stick with the Saturn to make Adventure in the classic Sonic style. And yes I love Adventure.

 

I knew Sonic Adventure was originally being made for Saturn, but never knew it was using the Sonic World engine. Way cool <3

 

I always "knew" this. (I assumed, as the animations are like SA)

 

He's kinda been doing that as early as Sonic CD. To be honest, I never really liked the wheel-o-feet thing, it required his hips to bend in weird ways. I do like the peel out animation though, every one calls it the figure 8 run, but if you look at the sprites, there's one that's just an oval, telling me that his feet are just being flung around too fast to even follow with the eye. So Nintendo kinda screwed it up for Brawl,l where his feet literally move in a figure 8.
...To be honest, I assumed it was common knowledge (at least around here). And I'm not trying to take anything away from love.self.hate, if questioned I wouldn't know where to go to cite it, But I could've sworn I saw it on a Sonic Scene related website.

Also, I REALLY wish Sonic Team had've held off on Burning Rangers till the Saturn could've got a good Sonic game. Had they, I can almost guarantee they'd still be in the hardware game, and I wouldn't have to be fiddling with these terrible D pads.

 

I saw that information ("Sonic World is a prototype of SA") mentioned on Sonic City some months ago, but it's nice to have a scan that confirms it.

 

Interesting! Good scan, I really should pick up more copies of Retro Gamer...

 

I think wikipedia or somewhere made this claim also, that sonic world was a proto of Sonic Adventure. But it's good to see something to back it up. You got the year and month of that retro gamer issue?

 

It's not just the freelancers, the sub-editor works on at least one other magazine and thus can't dedicate all that much time to RG. This actually causes mistakes to be introduced rather frequently, and one freelancer has made a rather public call for the removal of the sub-ed.

Anyhow, yes. Retro Gamer is a very good magazine, and while it had some questionable features in the past (Issue 18 of the Live Publishing era had a shockingly inaccurate 32X article), since Imagine Publishing bought the title it has been consistently excellent. I am a subscriber, largely because the price is far more acceptable than the £5 per issue of WH Smith.