

This appears to have been done to make it a bit easier to stay together with your team taking advantage of their boost lines and other team-based moves. One other big change (literally) is that tracks are much wider. In comparison to the previous All-Stars games, Team Sonic Racing certainly feels faster paced, with tighter controls and more refined tracks with tons and tons of alternate paths and shortcuts to find. You’ll still be flying through the air over tons of jumps, and travelling at heckin’ fast speeds thanks to boost pads laid generously all over every track. Here you’re all car, all the time and it works. I know I’m in the minority when I say that I wasn’t a huge fan of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Transformed whole transforming gimmick, mostly because some of the boating sections were too floaty (pun intended) and the track wasn’t all that defined in these sections which could make it confusing until familiar with the track. Team Sonic Racing – Review Images Provided by Sega Lastly, driving close to your teammates just as/after they crash will give them an instant boost getting them back into the race, meaning even your most casual friends can have a good time and stay in the race and keeps races feeling close. Passing items back and forth not only builds up a team based super move meter that makes you mostly invisible and gives your whole team a boost for a short period of time but also can grant you items you can’t get just by running over an item capsule.

Items can also be offered up to your teammates, should they fall behind. You won’t find other familiar characters here from other Sega games, nor will you find boats or planes like in Transformed, but what you will find is easily the best and most creative kart racer in years.Īs the name implies, Team Sonic Racing is all about racing together as teams of three racers (take that Double Dash with your two racers!) You and your teammates leave a yellow trailer behind as you race that your teammates can follow behind in to get a boost. Sumo Digital, the developers behind the fantastic Sonic & Sega All-Star racing games, is back with a new hedgehog-centric racer, this time focusing purely on Sega’s Blue Blur and friends.
