Fans port Sonic Unleashed to PC for first time

Since its release in 2008, Sonic Unleashed has remained exclusive to console platforms. Originally released for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and Nintendo Wii, PC gamers have had to rely on emulators in order to experience this legendary title in the 3D Sonic line-up. Fortunately, a group of fans have now changed that with their own PC port. 

Sonic Unleashed was the first game in the franchise to offer a perfect blend of classic side scrolling gameplay with the modern 3D style. In many ways, the game can be viewed as a prototype for Sonic Generations, but that would be doing a disservice to the quality of some of the levels in Sonic Unleashed. Now for the first time, PC gamers can experience the game via Unleashed Recompiled.

Sonic Unleashed Recompiled is a port of the Xbox 360 version of the game for PC. The fan team behind the port has even included modern resolution support, including support for Ultrawide displays, built-in achievements, controller icons for multiple styles of gamepad and more. You can even run the game with an uncapped frame rate if you want to push the engine to its limits.

The project is available on GitHub, so it can be freely downloaded and the source code can all be seen if you fancy taking a look at how it all runs under the hood.

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KitGuru Says: Did you play Sonic Unleashed on console back in the day? Will you be grabbing the PC port while its available? We'd recommend doing so, as you never know when a project like this might get taken down. Typically, Sega is a little kinder to its fan creators than the likes of Nintendo, so it may end up being spared but time will tell. 

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