Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Coming Sep. 25, 2025

Those are fan models though aren't they? Highly doubt Sonic Team is going to shell up to the artist to pay for models of their own characters.

 

Rafa has done official renders for Sega in the past. That said it's not like making more classic-style models are hard.

I don't think they've done anything substantial with Lah, Uh and Su beyond Night of the Werehog and Ghost Tale.

 

They used those models for their figures/merch. And from what I understand they already used them (Amy, Tails, and Knuckles) for the 3D islands in Origins.

 

Amazing. Well done, Sonic Team!

But wait ... where tf is Blaze?

I swear to god, this better has a healthy amount of unlockable characters...

 

If they are really sticking to the team aspect I wouldn't mind Marine so she could be with Silver and Blaze. But I know that's a far shot.

(Sticks would be cool too)

 

It's again nice to have yet another Sonic game that looks very good from the very beginning. I really truly think Sega/Sonic Team has permanently compressed their shit.

 

They generally use Lah as a mascot for the studio but it'd be cool to see those characters show up again in a new Sonic related thing

 

Unlockable? They're gonna be paid DLC instead.

 

We’re just gonna need this quality to maintain through a mainline game. Shadow was great but a bite-sized spin-off, and this is a racing spin-off. If they can nail something legit after this is when I’ll truly be impressed.

 

Yeah I don’t think we’re there yet in terms of being able to be confident in a Sonic Team project from the off, but I feel we’re certainly trending towards it. 2022 was “alright” with the dispassionate slap in the face of Origins and the janky but genuinely earnest Frontiers; 2023 was about the same with the passionate slap in the face of Origins Plus, the just as earnest-and-janky Final Horizon update to Frontiers and the frustrating letdown of Superstars; 2024 gave us Shadow Generations, which I think is fair to say genuinely exceeded expectations without caveat (which isn’t to say it didn’t have problems, but I think it’s an inarguably good game by all conventional metrics); and now 2025 looks set to deliver two fun spinoffs with Rumble and Racing CrossWorlds, the latter of these once again seeming to show a Sonic Team committed to rectifying past missteps. If this pattern continues into the next mainline game (presumably 2026) being of Shadow Generations quality or better, followed up by a further two years of solid side projects (likely to include at least one classic-styled game, a spinoff and remaster of a legacy title), that’ll be five years of consistently quality output, at which point I’m more than happy to consider the Sonic cycle as well and truly defeated.

 

I'm guessing the model for this game is going to be something like Monkey Ball Banana Rumble? Where they'll have extra SEGA characters and maybe some crazy crossovers (like Miku, Godzilla, and Among Us) release later as paid DLC... It seems like they wanted to do that with Superstars but they didn't. I'm not placing any bets because it just seems to be the thing that they implement ways to have a bunch of post-launch content but then only release one costume or something max (looking at you, Sonic Frontiers Monster Hunter outfit...)

I'm also going to assume there's maybe not an actual story mode here. It'd be weird for Sage to almost immediately get outed as being alive for something as trivial as a racing spinoff, it seems like something to save as a "surprise" for Frontiers 2 and I just don't know what the justification for Zavok and Zazz would be, unless those really do just act as extra characters.

 

I wouldn’t be surprised if Final Horizon is canon over Frontiers’ original ending now, thus placing Sage as alive. Much less of a headache for Sonic Team to just position the most recent piece of media as canon in that case, not to mention Frontiers’ updates already just seemed like things that were intended for the base game.

 

Miku's games are a SEGA thing, that doesn't strike me as a crazy crossover. I mean, she's in Yakuza 5 as a cameo/costume.

Honestly I really hope a decent number of SEGA crossovers do happen so we can get Kiryu and/or Ichiban in...

 

I actually think there might be. This text is is on the Sega Asia official website:

"Sonic has traveled to all kinds of worlds over the years, but when the Travel Rings bring him to the multiverse, a brand-new adventure, unpredictable races, and wild competitions await!"​

That sure sounds like a story setup to me.

 

They mention King Dodonpa in that PS blog, who was a character in the story mode for TSR, and funnily enough for all the the complaints about that game lack of content, it's the first game to actually have a genuine story mode, they can just take from that game and improve on it

 

I think it's been long enough from Frontiers that Sage is just kinda "around" now (outside the comics, I guess, but they'll get to her).

I mean, she already got a cameo in Murder of Sonic.

 

that halfpipe at 2:51 is pretty cool, that's some Tony Hawk type shit lol

If they put one of those in the next mainline game I'll be happy

 

I love that King Boom Boo has sunglasses so he can play around outside the Pyramid Cave.

 

I was thinking they might use the CrossWorlds gimmick as an excuse to recycle old courses, but of the gameplay footage I've seen... they've not done that yet(?), so that's a plus.

Less of a plus is the trick mechanism that sees cars flip all over the place, and it looks horrendous and broken. With what looks like a lot of randomisation and pot luck, I'd be tempted to kill off the trick system entirely - do you need it on top of everything else?


Yes I do have a long-standing grudge against characters jumping around outside of moving vehicles. Sit down you clowns.

 

It looks like they are only reusing themes and assets, just not track layouts wholesale.

Nice.