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Sonic Robo Blast 2?
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4 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Yep! You can't have a fangame thread without SRB2. The community is still somewhat active, and development is chugging along. The multiplayer has cooperative and competitive modes and it's a lot of fun. I sunk so much time into it when I was a teenager, and I still hang around on the community IRC chat to this day. Great community, great game.
Give Sonic Robo Blast 2 a go. It's awesome for many reasons:
- It's a native PC game, not a port. The controls are keyboard and mouse based and it plays great without a gamepad.
- You can make your own levels, and there are quite a few mods around. Some level packs are actually bigger than the official game.
- It's 3-dimensional, yet inspired by the classic Sonic games. This makes the gameplay very fun. If you want to make 2D levels, you can, too.
- The game has been in development for 17 years now. They keep adding levels and enemies and features of all kinds.
- There are official level design contests. Levels that win sometimes end up being included in the game.
- The map editing is easy to do, even though it requires an additional program, the editor isn't built in.
- The game can run on a potato. The system requirements are very low.
- There's an active community on the forums and IRC, you can talk to the developers and give actual feedback on stuff. Or make suggestions.
If you do play it, however, beware: playing as Sonic is insanely difficult in this game. I suggest picking Tails or Knuckles for a start, and when you finish, play Sonic for an extra challenge.
If you are into Sonic games, give Sonic Robo Blast 2 a go. It's awesome for many reasons:
- It's a native PC game, not a port. The controls are keyboard and mouse based and it plays great without a gamepad.
- It's 3-dimensional, yet inspired by the classic Sonic games. This makes the gameplay very fun. If you want to make 2D levels, you can, too.
- The game has been in development for 17 years now. They keep adding levels and enemies and features of all kinds.
- There are official level design contests. Levels that win sometimes end up being included in the game.
- The map editing is easy to do, even though it requires an additional program, the editor isn't built in.
- The game can run on a potato. The system requirements are very low.
DirectDraw 8 is deprecated and our game uses maps that the Doom engine back in 94 would physically explode trying to run. So especially when running the game in fullscreen, it is prone to crashing unless you use the OpenGL renderer. I've been working to port the existing SDL interface code (used on Linux) to SDL2 so that we can have one unified target that doesn't need a shopping list of hacks to get working.