Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)/Development

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has gone through several changes over it's development process. There are several rejected ideas, levels, and other things that were left on the cutting room floor. The following details several of these things.

Early Silver designs

The character Silver has gone through a few redesigns during development of Sonic the Hedgehog. He also underwent a name change from "Venice" (which was the main inspiration for Soleanna) to "Silver." Many models in the game and the Xbox 360 Marketplace demo still refer to him as Venice.

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  A near final model of Silver. Originally his spines on his head only came out during telekenesis.

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  A more futuristic design.

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  Silver with a headset.

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  Image found in 2006 script. Image was made in July 2005. Silver has a golden mane and psychedelic eyes.

Game Script

A Game script, which was obtained by Sonic Cult in September of 2006, can be downloaded here. It was originally obtained by a UK game tester and comes in XSL format. Interesting bits include prototype names for characters in the renewal points tab. Silver was revealed to have the name Venice and Elise is revealed to have had the name of Oliga.

E3 2005 - Closed door video

This video was shown behind closed doors at E3 2005, which was held in late May. IGN took screencaps of the video and the images can be found below.

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TGS 2005 - Technical Demo

This demo was at TGS 2005, which was held from September 16 to 18. Movement was twice as fast for some reason and the game has a debug mode enabled. This debug mode allowed players to move their character anywhere and can help to avoid deaths from falling into pits.

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Sega Europe FTP

At the beginning of February 2006, the following screens were made available at Sega Europe FTP. A great part showed the lightening changes due to day hour on a level. There are three screenshots not depicted in the following gallery, one which ties in with the last two, and two other unrelated to the time change theme.

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  Time change examples

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Level Differences

Tropical Jungle (Sonic)

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  Sonic has different green eyes.

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  Sonic has different green eyes.

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  Elise is missing.

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  Odd green eye model.

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  Odd green eye model, not holding Elise, in unknown parts of level.

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  Odd green eye model, not holding Elise.

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  Not holding Elise. You can't face that way on that vine.

Crisis City (Sonic)

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  The board is inside of the ground. This has somewhat been fixed in the final

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  Unknown part of level with robots instead of lava-monsters.

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  Robots instead of lava-monsters.

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  Unknown part of level with robots instead of lava-monsters.

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  The three side by side springs were replaced by a boost pad in the final.

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  Unknown part of the level.

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  Sonic in his ready to run pose. While this happens in the final, you cannot see him and he runs out of the tornado.

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  Unknown part of level

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  Robot instead of monsters.

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  Springs aren't here in final as Sonic is supposed to use his "triangle jump" move here.

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  Sonic grinding when he should be flying across the stage. This is present in the 'Very Hard' mode.

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  Sonic grinding when he should be flying across the stage. This is present in the 'Very Hard' mode.

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  Robots instead of monsters.

Kingdom Valley (Sonic)

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  Blue skies instead of over-cast.

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  Blue skies and no rings in the path.

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  Blue skies and oddly placed unlit torch.

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  Usually Sonic can't get here. A bridge is missing and the rings to do a light dash to the rope is intact. The robot which is used to smash the bridge down is still there.

Crisis City (Shadow)

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  Robots instead of monsters.

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  Robots instead of monsters.

Vs. Mephilis Phase 1 (Shadow)

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  Mephilis isn't seen well on the floor but looks different than final.

Crisis City (Silver)

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  Early tornado appears to be a normal tornado with a bit of fire in it.

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  Robots instead of monsters.

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  Robots and early tornado.

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  Robots and early tornado.

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  Robots and early tornado.

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  Robots.