
This takes place in a massive flying airship, with awesome machinery or sky backgrounds whether you're inside or outside, and the sections alternate from fast-paced action to slower gimmick-based platforming. note The exclusion of IceCap is most likely due to legal issues regarding the music with composer Brad Buxer, who recycled it from an unreleased track from his band The Jetzons. It was probably the most requested level from Sonic 3 for both Generations and Mania, and was, to the disappointment of many, not included in either game. Sonic even gets to ride a snowboard again ( this time up against an avalanche), and Tails can get in on the action as well. It later got an excellent modern re-imagining in Sonic Adventure. It's quite fast-paced even for this game and has one of the biggest fan favorite music tracks of the series.
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It was the sole Sonic 3 level that returned in Sonic Mania (barring Angel Island Zone, which received a smaller scale level in the Plus update). It's a very fast wild water ride with Sonic blazing across the surface of the water, bouncing everywhere with the Water Shield, rolling down hills at ludicrous speed, getting caught in currents that fling you miles into the air, and has amazing music. It's an underwater level, so if you've played the previous games, you're expecting a hard, long slog, right? You'd be wrong. Some people even consider these superior to the ValleyBell remixes used for Sonic 3 Complete.
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Many parts of each song are either heavily sampled from or inspired by his Dangerous album and standalone tracks. The soundtrack also got additional respect once word got out that Michael Jackson and his sound crew partially composed it.The IceCap Zone theme seems to be particularly popular, remixed so many times on OverClocked ReMix that it became a meme, resulting in an April Fools' album consisting of nothing but new IceCap mixes.
