Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing

If there is one thing I can say about this game though, is that I actually enjoyed it looking back, I finished all the challenges, and grand prixs and stuff, unlocked all the characters, tracks, songs, etc, and it was nice to see some old school SEGA characters again, once you get over the "SONIC DOESN'T NEED A CAR!!" thing, the game was actually decent and good, especially some of the track designs, they looked amazing on the PS3 and Xbox versions.

 

So we now have an arcade port of All-Stars Racing.



Supposedly its like the console versions but with a few tweaks to work in the arcades.

 

Holy shit. I didn't believe that rumor at all seeing as arcade are pretty much dead in the US. I'm really surprised it's real.

 

Cool stuff. Too bad I don't get cool stuff like that where I live, and that I have the game sitting on my shelf at home.

 

That's awesome.

Also, I just got the DLC for the game. My Gamertag is Solharath, for anyone who wants to play.

...I'm not likely to lose.

 

It should really never have been a rumour, but that's how we had to report it and therefore that's how the other sites did. We've had proof of the project for longer than you might think, and I'm really, really surprised that nobody else found it.

Also this is an all-Western development, a partnership between Sumo Digital and Sega Amusements Europe. For all the "arcades are dead lolz" you see out there, there is a Western arcade market and in recent years it's Western machines (and particularly American machines) that have been doing very well in that market. Whether games like Terminator Salvation and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift succeeding is a good thing, well, that's another issue entirely...

 

Wow, that's awesome. If I ever see a machine, I'm going to stick a 5 spot in it and have some fun.

 

I'd really like to see this in action for comparison's sake (what characters / tracks are in, etc.).

 

Edit: No Online Play? What?

But seriously, they're really going to need to reconfigure a lot of stuff before they just throw the game in an arcade cabinet.

There's nothing that's holding the steering wheel in place, for one, so you can see the player scrolling through the menu items without realizing how to control the selector until the last second. Plus, you're not going to be able to see all the available characters or tracks unless you put all the icons on screen. If they're not going to draw up new material for the arcade version, they could at least add more time for the player to check out what's available.

I do kind of wish S0L would come back so we could voice our input, but I don't know...

 

Er... have you actually played an arcade racer? I can't think of a single one that functions differently.

 

Sega, could you add a update in the PS3/360/PC version to support Steering Wheels?

I really want this on my PS3.

 

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Well, my steering wheel works.

 

I only have the PS3 version, it does not work with my wheel as it should work, it works as normal joystick, with the buttons as Gas and Drift (the pedals does not work), and I have to turn the wheel 480 degree to turn the car :v:

Because it does not support my wheel, I thought it doesn't have support in all platforms.

 

Trust me, they already have done and I'm sure they'll continue to do so after this location test/trade show run. I played a lot of SAE's last two home-to-arcade projects (Sega Rally 3 and GRID, the latter while still in development) and a lot of design work was put into how each game would function in an arcade setting.

 

Looks like a 3DS version might be coming: http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=148290