I’ve beautiful, blue sky recollections of Sega Rally, and I am not the one one. Over Bounce Rally is a fan-created homage to Sega’s forgotten arcade racer inbuilt Unreal Engine 5, and there is a demo obtainable now if you wish to get your wheels soiled.
The demo recreates the Forest stage, and there is a video with some side-by-side comparisons beneath:
Over Bounce Rally is the work of Alessandro Schiassi, a VFX who has been posting concerning the challenge in a thread at Sonic Fan Video games HQ. Schiassi says he is used the challenge as a platform to learn to use the Unreal Engine, and thought recreating Sega Rally, a recreation he loves, was a superb begin as a result of “it has simply 4 tracks and three automobiles in whole.”
Schiassi does additionally point out grander ambitions. “I am planning on finishing the Forest observe with a primary Time Assault mode, releasing it as a playable beta free of charge, and seeing what’s Sega’s response,” he writes on the discussion board. “In the event that they determine to bless the challenge and make it official, I would be honored to finish the entire recreation and maybe add some additional options. Worst-case situation, I simply use all of the property for some cool cinematics with the attractive OST as a background…”.
Sega giving the challenge their blessing appears unlikely, though the demo obtainable to obtain now does include an unique piece of music created by Johnny Gioeli, who contributed to the soundtracks for a number of classic-era Sega video games.
The Over Bounce Rally demo is 13GB and obtainable to obtain through MediaFire. I gave it a try to had some issue with it, performance-wise, though it ran higher as soon as I tweaked a config file (which a readme textual content file explains learn how to do). It’s barebones, however nonetheless a stunning fan challenge.