Sonic Generations – Six Screens from Speedy Highway!

Take a gander at these high-speed Sonic Generations screenshots featuring ‘Speedy Highway’ (first seen in Sonic Adventure) now in glorious HD!

I remember playing Sonic Adventure when it first released on Dreamcast and that one particular set piece in Seedy Highway where Sonic Runs down the side of a sky scraper blew my mind. I’d never seen anything so mind bending, graphically stunning (for its time) and fast in a videogame before. It will stay with me for ever; I hope Sonic Generations can recapture the magic of Speedy Highway!


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6 responses to “Sonic Generations – Six Screens from Speedy Highway!

  1. Sharky says:

    I agree ManCheese!

  2. ShadiNeko says:

    Yeah.. different IP’s but same email. so it’s you and you on a IP masking site? XD

  3. segaismysavior says:

    Hot damn, my reaction to seeing that stage the first time on DC is equal to my reaction seeing it now. That’s a very good thing.

  4. Body PRESS says:

    The graphics engine is stronger, but the art design is duller, as expected. This stage had a lot stronger variety of colors in SA1; now it’s oversaturated with blue.

    Also, the signs are in English when they should be in Japanese.

  5. segaismysavior says:

    It’s oversatured with blue because that’s the dominant light source at night, and the lightmaps are adding it. It does seem a bit exaggerated though.

    Dreamcast had basic vertex lighting, so it was up to the repeated textures to define the color palette.

  6. Body PRESS says:

    Yes, but it’s still disappointing even knowing that. The city’s visuals end up being very bland and uninteresting to look at. I do like the “running down the side of the building” screen at the top for some reason, though.

    I suppose I should just be glad that it isn’t *quite* as unfaithful to the original game as what they’ve done to the classic era stages. x__x Ugh.

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