Sonic Generations Xbox 360 demo is 3D

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 23 June, 2011

Sonic does a Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The Sonic Generations demo launched today on Xbox Live displays in stereoscopic 3D.

When enabled, the game splits the screen in half, forcing a 3DTV settings change to "side-by-side" mode as Call of Duty: Black Ops and other 3D-enabled Xbox 360 games do.

This side-by-side 3D, or two images in one that are then rescaled, is not the full stereoscopic 3D the PlayStation 3 is capable of.

The PS3 version of the demo displays in full stereoscopic 3D.

The options on the Xbox 360 version demo title screen are: Game Start and 3D Mode Options.

The second menu states: "Enable Stereoscopic 3D Mode", then a 3D scale bar to adjust the depth appears.

The 20-day single level demo is a side-scrolling re-imagining of Greenhill Zone from Sonic 1 with the same music.

We can now expect the final Xbox 360 game, set for launch in November, to support 3D.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • ThePentatonic #1 11 months ago

    Happy 20th Birthday Sonic! We Love YOU.

  • Eraysor #2 11 months ago

    More of a sexy remastering than "the same music"

  • edhe #3 11 months ago

    Most hyped crappy mascot *ever*.

  • slippysloppy #4 11 months ago

    Side By Side 3D works just fine.

  • Drygore #5 11 months ago

    @Slippysloppy

    It works ok. Still not as good though.

  • Zozzilla #6 11 months ago

    I know some people are going to start posting comments about headline favouritism shortly. =/ I dunno why EG don't just say "Sonic Generations demo is in stereoscopic 3D" since inside it states it's in 3D on both versions...it'd save all the fanboy clashes but then the comments wouldn't be as interesting.

    I wonder what it looks like in 3D?

  • Toothball #7 11 months ago

    Given all the flack that 3D is getting at the moment, it's nice to see that someone is still supporting it.

    @Zozzilla

    I think it's slightly more newsworthy that there is a 3D mode on the Xbox, considering the Xbox doesn't officially support 3D. It isn't quite the same as the PS3's 3D support however, as it displays two images side by side and relies on the TV to upscale them as necessary. The PS3 displays full screen images alternately, which would produce a better image on the whole.
    Edited by Toothball at 23/06/11 @ 15:21

  • sonicyoda #8 11 months ago

    The PS3 version did not come out yesterday. They both came out today.

  • FireMonkey #9 11 months ago

    360 may be getting the full 720p per eye 3D soon though:
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-0...

  • Zozzilla #10 11 months ago

    @Toothball - It's amazing what people can do with firmware updates these days. O.o
    ...that makes me sound soooo old. Anyway, I've been toying with the idea of getting a 3DTV, but I'll be waiting until more games support it. My current TV cost me a fortune when I got it, so I'm not planning on replacing it just yet. It'd be great to get a go on games like Sonic and all the FPS's, especially after seeing how much developers can do with the 3DS.

  • metalangel #11 11 months ago

    This needed a whole separate news story!

  • handsonhips101 #12 11 months ago

    Slow news day.

  • Er-El #13 11 months ago

    I'd love to play this game in stereoscopic 3D.

  • Pastici #14 11 months ago

    A 20 day demo? What?

  • slippysloppy #15 11 months ago

    @Drygore That's what I would have thought but it seems the reduction in quality the PS3 needs to achieve a decent frame rate etc. negates the benefits native 3D should have over SBS. In fact (and I'm not fanboy as I own both consoles) if you read the Digital Foundry comparison of Black Ops, it's 3D on the 360 that comes out on top. I must admit I wasn't expecting that.

  • Darren #16 11 months ago

    Weird, a game with 2D gameplay gets 3D support?!? Is that to make up for the fact the gameplay is free-roaming 3D then? ;)
    Edited by Darren at 23/06/11 @ 16:47

  • jablonski #17 11 months ago

    Just had to get another Call Of Duty news story out today somehow didn't you?

  • Toothball #18 11 months ago

    @Zozzilla

    True, it's on the way I guess. They've just not made such a big fuss of it so far.

  • Climhazzard #19 11 months ago

    @Pastici Yes, 20 days what now?

  • kirankara #20 11 months ago

    @sllippysloppy

    Black ops on ps3 was awful though tbf, so not a great example to judge the merits of both 3d implementations and how well the ps3 runs 3d

  • FladgeMangle #21 11 months ago

    @slippysloppy

    You were surprised that Digital Foundry found a way to rate the 360 version above the PS3? Really?

    They always find a way and will merrily flip-flop the criteria they judge these things by in order to do so. If the image quality is better on PS3 but the framerate marginally lower, then framerate is king. Or vice versa. Whatever it takes. Never compare audio, that's a rule. It helps greatly if the graphics engine is Unreal tech, as they can then just type '360 wins' and work backwards from there.

    To be fair, in the past it was often painfully obvious who won (if you had a PS3). Now it's just part of the fun to see their preference needfully broadcast as information.

    It's all a bit pointless. Enjoy what you have. It's not like one of them has atributes and the other has sprites.

  • slippysloppy #22 11 months ago

    I've got a 720 3D projector and SBS looks great and easily as good as frame packed 3D but not having 2 copies of the same game it's difficult to compare. I've seen some mkv rips and while these have a reduced picture quality (nothing to do with SBS) the 3D is still very impressive. As for Digital Foundry comparisons in the two I read, Black Ops favoured the 360 but Crysis 2 favoured the PS3. I was a little gutted as I read this after buying Crysis 2 for the 360 based on IGN's recommendation. I do have to say the 360 version looks great in 3D and suffers from none of the framerate or graphical issues DF found, so can only assume an update fixed these issues.

    It's right to say we should all get along and both consoles have their strengths and weaknesses but as an owner of both I will always buy the best version of any game. I think though I'll base this on graphics, res, framerate and poss disc number, rather than the 3D type as on my 80" 720p 3D projector both frame packed and SBS look great.