All told, that's honestly pretty substantial content-wise. That's just below Transformed for the biggest pre-DLC roster, and tied with ASR for the most tracks (and easily surpasses it if you include all the CrossWorlds). Long as impressions from the CNT are solid, I think I'm sold.
This looks awesome. I have not played Team Sonic Racing but I still want to get it. Ristar needs to come back in general. I think he’ll get a new game eventually but surprised it’s been so long. This a perfect game for him to appear in though. What about Ecco? Not as a racer but as one of the crossworlds. They do turn into boats and can race over the ocean. Maybe have an underwater portion with tubes. You could even have the aliens be an obstacle. Could never beat the games but I know what they’re like.
I forgot what a deep cut CTR Nitro Fuelled had with its roster compared to TSR and even post-update Mario Kart 8. I doubt even with other media characters confirmed via Prime we'll get as huge a love letter as that, though it could make up for it with some other SEGA favourites.
Wow. This looks way cooler than I thought it was gonna be. They mention something about racing in teams... does that mean it's going to have a TSR mode in-addition to traditional kart racing? Hope the Extreme Gear feel significantly different from the cars and that the game has a fun story mode.
We've already had Danica Patrick. I'm ready to welcome Donut Lord with open arms. Crossworlds looks rad. We've got different handling modes back (though we'll see if they still feel as distinct), we've got a whole new level of dynamic tracks, Sonic environments I never thought we'd see again are returning... I skipped Sonic Team Racing entirely, but this I've got my eye on.
Is Water Palace the same one from Sonic Rush, or is it just the name being reused without much connection, like Ice Mountain (Advance 1 zone) in Team Sonic Racing? It's probably from Rush, but I'm still a bit concerned. Ice Mountain was nothing like the Advance zone, didn't have any direct reference besides the presence of some lava (there was some lava underwater in the level), that might just have been a coincidence anyway. They missed the chance to put it in Sonic Rumble where it would have been a perfect fit (they might still add it at some point but I guess the game will be dead on arrival so my hopes are low), at this point I think that Music Plant should be a crossworld in this game.
This has the energy of those type of kids who tell you they like sonic, and pull out obscure gory Sonic exe.. Girl just driving her nightmare gigantio car.
English site is finally fully live. If you want in on the Closed Network test, you'll need to register by the 19th.
Source: Playstation blog I'm really liking what I've seen so far, but I hope it doesn't end up trying to please everyone and ultimately pleasing no one. I remember when he mentioned that Team Sonic Racing aimed for an Overwatch and Splatoon-style collaboration aspect. However, those games succeeded in part because of the strong infrastructure supporting them—something TSR critically lacked. I hope this time, the vision they have is backed by the right support so it can truly shine. At least we’ll know more soon when the network test begins next week.
You would think they'd use the chance to push their fancy new membership program instead of making us sign up for another God damn newsletter.
Okay so in terms of probable launch roster we have: Team Sonic (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles) Team Dark (Shadow, Rouge, Omega) Team Rose (Amy, Cream, Big) Team Chaotix (Vector, Espio, Charmy) Team Babylon (Jet, Wave, Storm) Team Eggman (Eggman, Metal, Sage) and then like Zavok, Zazz, Silver, Blaze and eggpawn that don't really fit in teams of 3. I guess Eggpawn might only technically be a character for story reasons like TSR and thus not count towards the roster but either way 23 isn't dividable by 3, I suppose the team mechanics are entirely optional this time so it does make sense.
If we get Prime characters (mostly alternate outfits let’s be real) but nothing from IDW, I’m going to lock up Iizuka in stocks and let everyone throw not-opened-since-1991 Sonic curry at him.
I'm not too excited about the Prime choices since I wasn't too huge on the variants design. Like Thorn Rose on her bird would be cool cause I thought she was the standout, but not too excited for Rebel Rouge, Gnarly Knuckles, Nine, or any of the Eggmans. I do wish we get some of the classic cast like Mighty, Ray and Trip though. Just have some fun with the cast and don't let the brand separation get in the way of having the modern and classic cast together. Especially for a racing game that's ideal for these kind of situations.
