Sonic 3 director Jeff Fowler pays tribute to 2005's Shadow the Hedgehog by putting sequences inspired by the bullet-heavy platformer into the threequel

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I was like, ‘Oh, that’s such a cool shot.

We’ve got to acknowledge that in the movie.

So we did pretty much a direct reference to that camera move."

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hits cinemas on December 20 in the US and December 21 in the UK.

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