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IceCap Zone
First appearance	Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Other appearances	Sonic 3 & Knuckles Sonic Drift 2 Sonic Adventure Sonic Adventure DX
Description	An icy mountain and cavern
Location	Floating Island
Previous stage	Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Carnival Night Zone Sonic Adventure Sonic: Casinopolis Tails: Casinopolis Big: Twinkle Park
Next stage	Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Launch Base Zone Sonic Adventure Sonic: Twinkle Park Tails: Sky Deck Big: Emerald Coast
Nearby areas	Sonic the Hedgehog 3: *Carnival Night Zone Launch Base Zone Flying Battery Zone (Scrapped)
Playable characters (story mode)	Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Sonic Tails Sonic Drift 2: Sonic Tails Knuckles Amy Rose Fang Metal Sonic Dr. Robotnik
Level number	Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Fifth Sonic Drift 2: White GP 3rd track Sonic Adventure: Third (Sonic) Second (Tails)
Number of acts	2
Enemies	Penguinator, Star Pointer
Sub-boss	Big Icedus
Boss fight	Freezer Mobile

IceCap Zone (アイスキャップ, Aisukyappu^?), also known as Ice Cap or Icecap, is a frozen region of the Floating Island, known to be extremely cold and somewhat dangerous. It is a large piece of land covered in ice and icy mountains.

To date, incarnations have appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic Drift 2, and Sonic Adventure.

Contents 1 Game Appearances 1.1 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 1.1.1 Enemies 1.1.2 Story 1.1.3 Boss 1.2 Sonic Adventure 1.3 Sonic Drift 2 2 Music 2.1 S&K Collection 3 Videos 4 Trivia

Game AppearancesEdit

Sonic the Hedgehog 3Edit

IceCap Zone first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. After being shot out of a cannon from Carnival Night Zone, Sonic and Tails land on a mountain. Sonic rides down it on a snowboard and then enters the interior. At the end of Act 1, a snow machine that spins snow at Sonic or Tails tries to crush them. Robotnik attacks in Act 2 in a machine that that has a spiked platform drop down and fires the freezing bursts in a pattern at Sonic. There is a shortcut in Act 1 that will let the player skip to Act 2's boss.

EnemiesEdit

English name	Japanese name	Sprite
Penguinator	Pen-Pen (ペンペン)
Star Pointer	Icedus (アイスダス)

StoryEdit

After being shot from the Carnival Night Zone, Sonic snowboards down a mountain and slams into the side of a cliff. (Tails skips this section and gets shot straight to the cliff. Knuckles is brought there by a teleporter. After clearing the zone the character will spin through the snow to the Launch Base Zone.

BossEdit

Main Article: Freezer Mobile

Dr. Robotnik appears in his new creation, which spews chilling ice flames in a few different directions, one in the front of his Eggmobile, the other on the underside of it above a small rising and descending platform with spikes on the bottom. Robotnik will hover across the arena, releasing ice flames from the dispensers. After he's attacked with the one located on the underside of his mobile, this is the chance to attack. After a few hits, the small platform will break and he's forced to descend, leaving it easy to attack from behind.

Sonic AdventureEdit

Main article: Icecap (Sonic Adventure)

In Sonic Adventure, Angel Island once again falls into the ocean. Sonic and Tails get onto the island and climb up an icy passage to the Icecap. After fighting Eggman's badniks on the outside of the mountain, Sonic and Tails enter inside to where they must get up to the top to escape. To do this they must climb ice spikes coming out from below the "floors" of the mountain. Once out of the mountain, an avalanche occurs, forcing Sonic and Tails to snowboard down the mountain to escape. Once on the other side of the mountain, Sonic and Tails find the Chaos Emerald they were seeking. Big also comes across the mountain after his friend Froggy runs inside of it, and fishes for Froggy in a pool inside. If Big throws the boulder or jumps on the ice, he can get an upgrade.

Sonic Drift 2Edit

Main article: Ice Cap (Sonic Drift 2)

Ice Cap also appears as a racecourse in Sonic Drift 2 for the Sega Game Gear. This stage is the third track of the White Grand Prix (White being the intermediate of the three available tournaments), coming after Rainy Savanna and before Hill Top. Although the rest of the White GP appears to take place on Westside Island, Ice Cap obviously sees the racers somehow divert upwards, to Knuckles' floating home.

MusicEdit

S&K CollectionEdit

VideosEdit

TriviaEdit

• In Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, Flying Battery Zone was originally meant to be before this Zone and the hatch Sonic uses to escape the zone would have been used as a snowboard. Presumably, the cannon would have shot Sonic onto the airship.
• The music for the original Genesis version of this stage is most widely known in the gaming community alongside with various remixes.
• The snowboarding section at the end of the Sonic Adventure version of this stage is likely a homage to the Mega Drive stage, in which Sonic starts out snowboarding. Also, it may be the basis for the beginning of City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2.
• This the first ever ice-themed zone in a console Sonic game.