Matt Lees:
The game's full name doesn't do it justice either. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed is a mouthful of words that don't gel together; a messy mash of pointless additions that mirrors the problem I've had with most Sonic games. The simplicity of the first few games made them magic, and over the years this became watered-down.
From afar this is a game that doesn't appeal to anyone who isn't a massive SEGA fan or - alternatively - a very small child. After playing it for the best part of a weekend, I'm ashamed of my prior assumptions. Transformed is a smart and varied game, full of brilliant ideas and plenty of depth.
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Chocobo GP had potencial to be a worthy competitor, but Square Enix just couldn't help itself from ruining it with bad monetization. Still fun to run a couple of races from time to time, though.
Still sad we haven't gotten a new mod nation racers from Sony in a hot minute
I played that more then MKWii for a while.
Mario Kart has always reigned supreme when it comes to the best kart racers out there to play, but there are still a few other racers that are must-plays.
If Sega wants to bring its speedy blue mascot back to prosperity, it should follow these steps to the letter.
All they need to do is go back to what it was like but add better story elements to it
As I've said basing it off the Sonic Comics would work.
From a fast brown Hedgehog to a super fast, red trainer wearing blue hedgehog. It shows you how Robotnik became evil and why Sonic decides to stop him.
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Plus Amy actually was better developed back then, she got involved more and could defend herself.
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I really don't know what Sega can do to bring back Sonic. They tried brining him back to his roots but that failed just as the article suggested, poor level design and bad gameplay. The rest were all gimmicks poorly executed, so my only suggestion would be to FIRE Team Sonic.
If Mario can venture off into new gameplay areas and still be successful with spin offs after spin offs then that shows a true testament to the developing power of the Mario team at Nintendo. There is no reason why Sonic shouldn't have the same success in all his games and spin off.
Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed needs a sequel. I mean did it really do that bad that Sega dropped all support for consoles? I mean the PC version got a bunch of updates including extra characters why couldn't they port that over to the consoles? It's a shame because my friends and I play that game religiously, it's the closest to Mario Kart we have.
2008-2011 they had a working formula. Sonic Unleashed,Sonic Colors, and Sonic Generation was not sonic's roots at the core (Sonic Adventure is more true to the 2D Genesis games) but fans loved it and it was fun. Then they screwed around with it in Lost World and Shat on it with sonic Boom
Make it a requirement for workers to play Sonic 1-3 and Sonic Adventure 1 & 2.
Keep releasing games like Generations, Allstars transformed and Unleashed, and they should be good!
Picked this up for the heck of it. Absolutely a 9 out of 10. Pure fun
I'm waiting for the PC version.
I've already bought this for PS3 for my son for xmas:)
I'm waiting for the Vita version to be released next month.
Is it bad that I don't want this game due to the sheer fact that they dropped my two favorite racers (Ryo Hazuki, Jacky & Akira) in the sequel?
Granted, Joe Musashi is awesome and all, but damn man. I loved using Ryo.