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Sonic in Metal Blade Zone (?)
Metal Blade Zone is a scrapped level that would have appeared on the Sega Saturn cancelled video game, Sonic X-treme. This is the third zone in Sonic X-treme.
Overview
This stage is shown to be a dark sky stage, much like Death Egg Zone. Another stage is confirmed to be a metropolis.
Description
Metal Blade was going to have three acts: "Nightmare Bridge", "Sewer Shock" and "Necropolis". Metal Sonic would have been encountered at this stage as a boss.
In the boss fight with Metal Sonic, the player could use a "Lock On" mode, when the camera is locked onto the boss and that helps to dodge harmful things from him. Metal Sonic would usually slowly follow Sonic and when he's locked onto him, he'll charge at him or shoot missiles.
Trivia
- This zone is the only zone of Sonic X-treme that doesn't have official screenshots. The only time it was shown in a video is in the Canadian TV series "The Anti-Gravity Room".
- Metal Sonic's model and some Project Condor models were discovered in a Sega Saturn SDK.
- The ground texture from the Metal Sonic boss battle was found while disabling some layers in the 718 prototype.
- Chris Senn made some variants of Metal Sonic in his concept artwork images, but they were all scrapped in favor of the actual Metal Sonic.
Gallery
Concept artwork
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 The Metal Sonic model that was used in the boss fight.  The ground texture that was used in the boss battle.  Mecha Sonic Mark I, Chris Senn's first variant for Metal Sonic  Mecha Sonic Mark II  Mecha Sonic Mark III  A finalized Mecha Sonic Mark III  Mecha Sonic Mark IV  A finalized Mecha Sonic Mark IV  Mecha Sonic Mark V  A finalized Mecha Sonic Mark V  An outline of a possible encounter between Sonic and Metal Sonic. Add a photo to this gallery |
Screenshots
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 The Metal Sonic boss battle from this zone.    A beta version of the Metal Sonic boss battle.  A beta version of the boss battle, and the only magazine picture that clearly shows the Metal Sonic model without the Saturn's rendering tricks, which made him look like he has a red "V" shaped visor above his eyes  Add a photo to this gallery |
Video
Sonic Xtreme Metal Sonic Boss Clip
| Characters | Sonic | Tails | Knuckles | Tiara | Gazebo | Mips | Dr. Robotnik | Fang | Metal Sonic | Guardian Sphinx Boss | |
|---|---|---|
| Zones | Castle of Light | Crystal Frost Zone | Death Egg Zone | Galaxy Fortress Zone | Jade Gully Zone | Metal Blade Zone | Red Sands Zone | Blue Ocean Zone | |
| Enemies | Ball Drone | Beebot | Bomber | Bonehead | Boy | Buzzsaw | Cappy | C-Grinder | Cog | Crab | Dingo | Dynobot | Feep | Fishee | Flamedome | Flame Spinner | Floppy | Gyro | Jetarang | Litebug | Loball | Octopod | Orca | Pin Tut | Piranha | Purplebot | Ribbot | RiskStar | Sjax | Snooter | Skuzzy | Tri Drill | Trunkbot | |
| Other | Chaos Emerald | Debug Mode | Master Emerald | Ring | Rings of Order | Sonic Orb | SonicBoom | Spin Slash | |
