Grass and flowers sway in the wind, covered by calm shadows stretching away from a setting sun – this is the initial Apotos Windmill Island stage as it is found in the Sonic Unleashed, only now it’s on the PC and, thanks to retextures by modder lobotomy, it looks better than ever. Each of Sonic Unleashed’s main stages were extracted by the trio of modders from the Xbox 360 version before being reworked, polished and imported into the PC version of Sonic Generations. The modders’ dedication to this project is evident almost immediately after the first “Tutorial” level loads.

Remember kids, installing mods back in the day used to be tricky business. While it doesn’t impact on the enjoyment of the mod per se, the team should still be commended for streamlining the installation process. exe for the mod, meaning that saves and user data for Sonic Generations and Unleashed Project never cross-contaminate, essentially creating two individual games (think: stand alone DLC).

The patching program even creates a separate. Unleashed Project‘s installation was an intimidating task at first – most likely due to this writer’s dependence on Steam simplicity – but the process was relatively pain free: download files, dump files in the Sonic Generations PC directory, install a patch and voila.

But thanks to their ongoing efforts, the three modders eventually released ver 1.0 of Unleashed Project for Sonic Generations owners to download and install. Several challenges presented themselves during the mod’s development, including differences in the way the two games handled dynamic lighting and collision detection, resulting in the project taking well over a year to complete. Unleashed Project started out as an experiment by Sonic Retro forum members Dario FF, Twilightzoney and Chimera to import the main Sonic Unleashed daytime levels into Sonic Generations. But now that the hubbub has died down, is the ambitious Unleashed Project mod really worth playing? Hit jump to find out! Unleashed Project got its fair share of attention from major videogame news outlets when it was released back in March and has been held in high regard by the Sonic community ever since. It managed to break free of the cycle that has destroyed so many promising fan projects before it: conception, hype, delayed development and eventual cancellation. The Sonic Generations: Unleashed Project mod is one of a handful of Sonic fan game success stories.

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