Performance wise though, Team Sonic Racing is mostly consistent. You don’t technically benefit from more than three mid-air spins Colours can be more broadly customised with each part of a vehicle allowing a selectable colour and extra colour schemes being unlocked with the aforementioned credits. Most aren’t straight upgrades, since you’ll lose some effect in one area to gain in another, forcing you to consider what you feel most important to your racing style. Many stages are optional and off the critical path, but are there if you want extra challenges and more chances at earning stars and keys to unlock future races in the adventure mode, or credits to unlock boost items and customisations for vehicles from a random capsule machine.Įach vehicle has a variety of swappable parts which can be equipped to both change the look of the vehicle and affect it’s performance.
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This mode gives a series of racing challenges like your standard races and GPs along with testing specific skills in ring and targeted drift challenges.
I could take or leave it personally but it’s there if it’s your thing, and easily skippable if it’s not. It follows a storyline (which you’ll entirely miss if you’re not careful and start races with the A button… as I suspect many will) told through static images and voiced text lines. TSR includes a lengthy and varied single-player Team Adventure mode. Your teammates can slingshot on your trail I found this one particularly frustrating since if they appear at certain track sections they can be impossible to avoid, and while the same could be said for blue shells of Mario Kart in most cases this feels a little out of place for a game that tries to swing the focus closer to skill than chance. Some wisps are inventive (for better or worse) such as one which creates a series of stone columns at the front of the pack forcing those ahead to dodge and weave at a moments’ notice. I found myself taking longer than I expected learning what each wisp does as while their shape often alludes to their purpose it can take some time to work out how each behaves. Each weapon is a wisp (from Sonic Colours) which take the form of projectiles, speed boosts and the like. Things can get quite hectic with the variety of weapons on offer. Drifting and earning boosts as often as possible can make all the difference in a race and so learning track layouts and being able to react to events happening around you will be important. Like most you can drift to manoeuvre around corners and longer drifts afford you a speed boost at the end, but unlike most others these drifts can be super easily chained together – almost indefinitely. Your personal success will be dependent on how well you can master the games’ specific style of drifting, which is quite different to games like Mario Kart. It’s a unique system, and allows you to have a direct influence on how well your team overall performs in a race.ĭrifts can go on about as long as you want them to If you spot a teammate who’s spun out ahead of you, you can skim past them to give them a boost back to speed. Should you acquire an item you can’t make much use of you can offer up the item box to the others in the team in the hope they might find it more useful. The lead racer of the crew will leave a trail behind them which teammates can follow for a slingshot-style speed boost (which can be chained together if you’re coordinated enough). This would seem unfair if not for the new team actions you can perform. You could be first across the line, but if the rest of your team lags behind then the entire team’s place will be dragged down. While you only directly control one character during any race, your overall place hinges on not just your own spot in the standings but that of your teammates as well. Most kart racers become successful by having some unique feature to differentiate them from the rest of the pack – Team Sonic Racing’s hook is its new team mechanics. Team Sonic Racing (TSR) retains the slip-slidey technical racing style of it’s predecessor while introducing new team elements but at the expense of Transformed’s celebrated dynamic track design.
High expectations have been placed on Sumo Digital after their last Sonic-centric racing game, Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed, ended up a critical success and cult classic among kart racing fans who wanted to look beyond the moustachioed plumber’s kart racer.
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