Standard Grand Prix competitions are exciting enough, but Team Sonic Racing makes its real strength clear: team matches. Team Sonic Racing’s 21 playable courses are varied and well-designed, if not overly inviting to new players unfamiliar with the twists, turns, and unexpected hurdles. The roster of 15 characters is entirely comprised of characters from the Sonic franchise, as opposed to other Sonic racing games that include characters from the broader Sega universe. Team Sonic Racing is a strong effort, combing stellar track design and innovative teamwork design to deliver a solid multiplayer experience, but it’s hindered by its busyness and some frustrating technical faults. Team Sonic may be the most prolific of Mario Kart’s competition, but we’ve yet to see a Sonic racing game reach quite the creative heights and cultural resonance as any of Nintendo’s first-party generational releases. In total, the game features 21 tracks, some new, some from old parts of the series.In the Mario Kart dominated kart racing genre, it takes a polished, innovative, crowd-friendly product to really stand out. If you drift through them, though, you’ll get bonus time instead. For instance, in some missions you can only gain points if you gather classic golden rings without using drift. The challenges are well-made and contain non-standard mechanics. Extra actions will help you to unlock new routes on the map often offering complication solo time trials. R-medals allow you to get spare parts for your car and other bonuses in the special menu designed as a capsule machine. In multiplayer, it all depends on your friends’ ability to control a virtual bolide.Ĭompleting races and collecting stars, you move through the world map and unlock new races, including drop-out missions, driving through targets and tasks where you’ll need to gather rockets and destroy hundreds of opponents appearing on the screen. Luckily, the AI works adequately, without lags. If you came to the finish line first while other members of the team are on last places, you can lose because of the lack of points. To win a championship, you need to get a maximum amount of points summed up based on each teammate’s rating. The game concentrates on common actions of the heroes. Team acceleration attack is particularly effective – this ability can be sometimes gained twice in a race. Those who fell behind will ask you to swap items that can be obtained randomly from capsules scattered on the track. Others don’t slow down if they drive into the grass. Some can break through obstacles opening additional ways. The developers added three character specializations giving them a little bit more uniqueness. Besides, you can spread the acceleration between your partners by touching them on the track. The one driving ahead creates a bright trace that speeds up the bolides of his teammates following him.
In career mode, they are controlled by the AI. Races run in the format of team matches with three participants, so you’re also helped by two pilots.
You can play either along or with your friends.
Sumo Digital and Sega keep evolving its thrilling tracing series that is now available online! Team Sonic Racing 2 will allow you to try your luck and skill on hundreds of winding tracks with tough challenges.