'If they decide to bless the project and make it official, I'd be honored to complete the whole game and perhaps add some extra features. 'I'm planning on completing the Forest track with a basic Time Attack mode, releasing it as a playable beta for free, and seeing what's Sega's response,' he writes on the forum.

Schiassi does also mention grander ambitions.

Schiassi says he's used the project as a platform to learn how to use the Unreal Engine, and thought recreating Sega Rally, a game he loves, was a good start because 'it has just 4 tracks and 3 cars in total.' Over Jump Rally is the work of Alessandro Schiassi, a VFX who has been posting about the project in a thread at Sonic Fan Games HQ. The demo recreates the Forest stage, and there's a video with some side-by-side comparisons below: Over Jump Rally is a fan-created homage to Sega's forgotten arcade racer built in Unreal Engine 5, and there's a demo available now if you want to get your wheels dirty. I have lovely, blue sky memories of Sega Rally, and I'm not the only one.