Sonic All Star Racing
Sonic All Star Racing
- The movie and game were created together – ensuring high quality movie-based game experience
- Gamers test their skills in out of this world action-filled adventures
- Gamers race, chase and evade enemies in an incredible array of hover vehicles and play as key characters from the movie
- Numerous story-based missions allow gamers to unlock new vehicles, get collectables, watch movie clips and more
In a frantic battle to the checkered flag, Sonic and friends speed around tracks set in medieval castle ramparts, lush rainforests and bustling cities, all taken from the visually rich and varied universes of Sonic and SEGA. Fan favorites such as Dr. Eggman, Tails, AiAi, Amigo and many more will join Sonic in their custom built vehicles, revving their engines and jostling to stay ahead of the pack. Each character will speed around the track in cars, planes, motorbikes, and in Aiai’s case – a banana mobile! Secret short cuts, swift handling and avoiding strategically placed obstacles are certainly the best way to get to the top of the podium.
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Review by S. Kaszynski for Sonic All Star Racing
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Sonic Sega All Stars racing is definitely an updated version of Mario Kart. Graphics are great, it has the same concept as Mario Kart; trying to hit bonuses to help you get into the lead. I think children will love the Sonic characters involved, and the fun tracks. Much faster than Mario Kart, which takes some practice and getting used to. I give it 5 stars, as it’s a game that can be enjoyed by all.
Review by Beverley for Sonic All Star Racing
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We bought this yesterday for my 7 year old and he is helping me with this review. Since getting it, he has played it for MANY hours and really loves it. He loves Mario Kart too, but is enjoying the change of characters and the fact that the races are faster than Mario Kart. He really loves earning money to buy additional players, racing tracks and music. It’s great to see him enjoy it so much!
Review by Apple91790 for Sonic All Star Racing
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My nine-year-old son loves this game. It is more fun than MarioKart. He enjoys the racing action and the characters. Once he starts playing, it’s difficult to get him to stop. It’s worth the money. You can’t go wrong.
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You might read the title of this review and think, “What?!? How can this game be better than Mario Kart”. There are some people who, even after playing this game, decide that Mario Kart is superior. I, however, hold a different opinion. Basically, Sega waited for Mario Kart to come out. Then, they made a game that was extremely similar, only they added stuff that would make it more interesting and removed stuff that was unnecessary or weakened the game.
Gameplay:
The controls are almost exactly the same as Mario Kart DS, except for the tricks you can do while in the air. However, you can get an All-Star move occasionally if you are in a really bad position. The All-Star move itself is varies, but each one is pretty much an invincible form that has super speed, smashes enemies, and sometimes attacks. Sega did a better job making each character unique than Nintendo did. The one mistake Sega made was making Opa-Opa to good. If the CPU is using Opa-Opa, you should probably quit and hope that Opa-Opa won’t be an opponent when you try again. Oh yeah, Sonic and Sega also emphasizes drifting a lot.
Grand Prix:
The Grand Prix is pretty neat. They removed Mirror Mode, which is a good idea since, if your friend chooses regular in a multi-player race and you have been playing lots of Mirror, you will have trouble re-learning the courses, giving your friend an advantage. They shouldn’t have removed the ratings, though, because they give the player something extra to work for. Plus, you will be rewarded the same whether you beat all of the Grand Prix on Hard or on Easy. The Grand Prix is not really the highlight of the game.
Multi-player:
I haven’t tried the Wi-Fi yet since the random opponent you’re racing could make their account name anything they want. I like the fact that you can do Wi-Fi with people you’ve registered as “friends”; I hope to try that feature soon. The download play is OK. The Multi-card play gives you courses to choose from that both players have unlocked. Unfortunately, after each race, you are moved back to where you choose characters, rather than selecting something where you can simply do race after race after race without stopping t re-select your characters.
Missions:
This is what I consider the highlight of Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing. The missions are of greater variety than Mario Kart, although they removed the “mega-boss battles”. The layout of how you unlock new missions is complicated (you need a certain number of stars obtained on previous mission(s) to unlock the next mission), but is better than simply having different sets of missions. The missions are also more challenging. The only annoying thing is that they made the final mission way too easy.
Overall, Sonic and Sega does have some bad points. Then again, Mario Kart has comparatively more bad points. In my opinion, the good outweighs the bad in Sonic and Sega. Sorry Mario…
Review by OniCon for Sonic All Star Racing
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In 2005 Mario Kart DS was born.
People were amazed by the graphics and gameplay. Hands down Mario Kart is a great game but it needed some improvement.
Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing just kicks Mario Kart in the face.
Graphics: The graphics are absolutely jaw dropping and the colors just really pop off the screen. I didnt expect too much especially coming from a Wii user. In my opinion they are better than Mario Kart.
Gameplay: The game runs very smoothly and there are no frame rate issues. The graphics arent pixelated like a lot of other DS games too.
Controls: A is Gas. B is brake. L is the item button, and R is for drifting. The controls work very well and are very similar to other racing games.
Tracks and Characters: Of course a cart racing game wouldn’t be good without good tracks right? Tracks like “Whale Lagoon” and “Ocean Ruin” looks amazing on the DS. Although I do find some of the tracks to be short the majority of them are well constructed.There are 24 tracks
The game also has a “Missions” mode that lets you go on tracks with a certain objective. One can be to go through all of the rings in the selected time, collect all the rings, drift at high speeds, or just beat the race.There is also a single player mode which all you do is pick your character,track then your ready to race. Last but not least is the Grand Prix mode in which you enter a cup to win.
Overall i definately reccomend this game to anybody. It is truly a great game that will keep you playing for hours.