Sonic Robo Blast 2, an unofficial Sonic fan game made using the Doom Legacy engine, has just received a major update 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 Sonic Robo Blast. 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.
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 Sonic Mania.
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.
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 at srb2.org.
Source:Reddit