Sonic the Hedgehog is Joining Fortnite, and Yes You'll Be Able to Dash Up Walls in the Green Hill Zone

Sonic the Hedgehog is joining Fortnite arsenic portion of the conflict royale's upcoming gaming-themed season.

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, which is named Override, is expected to diagnostic collaborations with a drawstring of classical video crippled franchises, including Tetris, Kingdom Hearts and Persona.

Today, we got our archetypal look astatine gameplay, via a clip shared by the Sonic the Hedgehog societal media account. Footage shows an country themed astir Sonic's iconic Green Hill Zone, and Peely the banana dashing done it, Sonic-style. Presumably determination volition beryllium immoderate caller Sonic question item, granting ace speed.

This caller “Fortnite” Zone feels oddly familiar… pic.twitter.com/YbJS7or8rU

Eagle-eyed Fortnite fans volition spot that the teaser opens with the logo for the Imagined Order (IO) — the game's archetypal atrocious guys, led by Geno, Fortnite's wide Big Bad who's present playing a cardinal portion successful the game's storyline (voiced by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Ben Starr). The proposition present is that the IO are hacking world and inserting video crippled characters into Fortnite's universe... for reasons that are yet to go clear.

Fortnite is presently wrapping up its precise enjoyable Runners play which has focused connected the postulation of Pokémon-like Sprites. These small creatures person proven truthful fashionable that Epic Games has present confirmed that the mechanic is sticking around, with a caller procreation of Sprites connected the way. All Sprites collected this season, meanwhile, volition beryllium saved successful a Sprite Garden for each subordinate — which sounds perfectly thing similar a Chao Garden, honest.

The adjacent play of Fortnite is expected to get connected August 19. We'll apt get confirmation of much large video crippled crossovers successful the days to travel (and perchance connection of Kingdom Hearts astatine D23 Expo this weekend.)

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