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General comparisons
The title screen has a different background. It also uses the same sound effect for pressing 
as in the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game.
- The claw slash effect doesn't play in the main menu.
- The loading screen is different for both nighttime and daytime.
Gameplay comparisons
Sonic the Hedgehog's jump animation is different, being much more transparent.
Sonic the Werehog's HUD is unfinished, and identical to the one seen at E3 2008[1].
- The game runs at an uncapped framerate. This is fine on hardware, but produces poor results on emulators using powerful computers, as the game's physics start breaking at framerates above 60. You need to cap it using external software.
- The player cannot Drift by pressing
or holding 
- they have to brake, then make a sharp turn. Much harder to pull off, and makes snaking much harder to do.
- Sonic the Hedgehog makes an annoying sound everytime he slides. He also exclaims "WOO!" everytime he Stomps.
- The visual effect for boosting is a work in progress.
- The camera is much less dynamic, zooming out less while boosting. It creates a placebo effect of daytime feeling much slower, despite Sonic the Hedgehog having identical speed values to the final game.
- The physics are overall much less refined. Sonic the Hedgehog has less air drag, feels even more slippery than the final, and cannot turn as effectively. Sonic the Werehog is slow, and lumbering. Both of them feel worse to play.
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The lock-on reticle for the Homing Attack is different.
- Sonic begins the game with all of his moves, and the upgrade system is not present.
- At the end of a level, S Ranks are always achieved no matter what.
- There's a 'replay' button on the end of level screen. This is missing in the final, but returned in Sonic Generations.
- In-game cutscene music continues into stages and hub worlds when skipped. This does not apply to FMVs.
- Sonic the Hedgehog is even slower in the hub worlds, and slides around in a neutral stance when paused.
- Neither of Sonic's forms play an intro animation at the beginning of stages. The only exception is Cool Edge Act 1 (Daytime).
- Sonic the Hedgehog's quickstep is much less powerful outside of dedicated quickstep sections, barely moving Sonic at all.
- The global illumination is much higher resolution than the final game. It looks better, and doesn't have any noticeable impact on performance.
- Despite the GI being higher resolution, the lighting is overall worse on the majority of stages. Most likely because compiling the advanced lighting could take days, and it'd be far too much effort to go through for every single minute layout change.
- Entrance stages use the same UI as action stages, having a timer counting down along with a score counter during the daytime.
- Entrance stages all have their stages laid out in the beginning of them, likely for playtesting purposes.
- The transformation cutscenes for Sonic changing between forms in the hub worlds is not present.
Sonic the Werehog's fur is a slightly different coloration. He resembles the textures used in the Wii version far more than the final game.
Sonic the Werehog's claws use white trails, rather than the purple used in the final game.
- M-speed is much easier to pull off, requiring less precision.
- Sun and Moon Medals are not present, however the UI for them still exists.
- Motion blur is significantly less intense.
Stage comparisons
References
as in the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game.
