5/27/2023 0 Comments Sonic racing ps4![]() Once you begin to have four teams playing at once, so twelve of you in the race at a time, you’ll find that you can be in first place and then within a blink of an eye, you’re in fifth or lower. The AI CPU racers are dirtier than Dick Dastardly and Muttley! The first few levels, containing a number of stages, play out okay – you’ll probably come first in most of them, but then the AI will start to get more aggressive. However, not everything is peachy within this Furries Heaven. ![]() ![]() Once you’ve played for a few hours, you’ll be sliding and using the slipstreams to your advantage without even realising that you’re doing it! The handling of the cars is great, with the customary drift mechanic to build up your boost, performing tricks as you jump to also build up boost, and extremely tight controls which feel solid during gameplay. Team Sonic Racing is the first non-Mario Kart racing game which I feel has absolutely nailed it this generation. There have been a number of kart racing games this generation, we reviewed the Nickelodeon Kart Racers and All-star Fruit Racing, both of which are fun games but came with their own flaws and issues. This means if you come first but your buddies come in the final two positions, you’re most likely going to lose! As you play as a team, you rank as one also – the winner is the one whose ‘team’ has the most combined points. Finally, once you finish the race and everyone else’s times are placed upon the scoreboard, you’re all given points based on your position. Again, they will also do the same, offering you various items as you race around which you can either accept or ignore. They can then opt to take it off you and use it for themselves. If you pick up an item you don’t need, as you’re in first place or far back in last (depending on how brutal the AI is at that point), you can ‘offer’ the item to your teammates (human or CPU). Similarly, they can also use yours to do the same to you. Although, it’s a bit of a strange way the mechanic works, however, it does just that – it ‘works’… Throughout the race, there are three people on each team, if one of your colleagues is in front of you then you can benefit by using their slipstream (indicated by yellow tire-tracks) in order to get a boost so you can catapult yourself around and in front of them once you catch up. Team Sonic Racing is all about teamwork, you must always compete in teams of three (just like Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid), with the narrative of the story explaining ‘why’ as you progress through the various stages. If I was to compare this game to any other, which has come out in the last few years, I would honestly say that it reminded me of OnRush, in a world where OnRush had an actual race-mode instead of the endless loops. I may have come first but my teammates are dragging me down…ĭoes anyone remember Mario Kart: Double Dash on the Gamecube? I loved that game, swapping between the front and back driver as you stored items and used each characters unique abilities to win the race… Team Sonic Racing is nothing like that game (although I’ve seen a few people liken the two together). ![]() Sumo Digital, if you’re reading this – patch the game so Cross starts with the story and Square does it without, as a lot of people will miss out on the fun narrative otherwise! So, I was instinctively pressing Cross to start the races. You see, when you select to play a track/event, you can press Cross to ‘play without the story’ or Square to ‘Play with the story’. Now, is the narrative that good? To be honest, I haven’t really been following it too much, not because I don’t want too but because I didn’t even realise it was there until I was about eight races in. The first thing which jumped out at me, in regards to the single-player part of Team Sonic Racing, is the fact that there is a story that has been laid out on a map not that different to something like Mario Bros 3! As an arcade racing game, I wasn’t expecting a story, I was expecting the game to simply be a list of eight cups, each increasing in difficulty, with a number of tracks for you to race around on as you aim to become the victor – but no, we actually have a narrative! What’s this, a narrative in a Sonic Racing game…
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