Kotaku: "Off-putting difficulty spikes and rigid performance demands overwhelm what should be an engrossing career mode and what is a richly illustrated tribute to Sega's greatest hits."
A decade later, Sega's iconic racer is still a formidable foe to the Mario Kart franchise.
Yes, yes it is! Damn shame that Sega never made another sequel or even updated this one with new tracks and characters.
"The platform of choice, however, is the Xbox Series X."
Yessir, the game runs extremely smooth because of the frame rate boost. Still, till this day I play Sonic ASR with friends.
What are the best titles to feature the Blue Blur?
Good list. Personally I’d probably trade the Sonic CD game in this list for Sonic the Hedgehog (1), simply because CD is quite easy so you’ll blast through it, and the original Sonic was basically a new benchmark when it was released which blew everything and everyone at the time away. It also features my favorite zone, Starlight Zone.
I really hope one day we’ll be blessed with a Sonic Mania 2.
R was one of my first PC games along with Worms 2 and some others like Virtual Springfield. R was kind of good in a strange way i guess, i didn't hate it at the time.
Sonic CD was decent but I'd say i liked the music more, at least for the JP/EU version, some of the levels felt a bit all over the place and most of the bosses were odd and a bit too easy. Even though the system was a flop too it did have some very good games like Final Fight also which had some great music.
My top top5 (After mid 2000's sadly I stopped playing sonic)
Sonic 2
Sonic adventure
Sonic & Knuckles
sonic cd
Sonic 3
Honorable Mentions: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine,Sonic Spinball
1. Sonic adventure 2
2. Sonic rush
3. Sonic unleashed ( day time stages)
4. Sonic generations
5. Sonic advance 2
Phil writes, "Start your engines, as SuperPhillip Central is set to explore five of the finest forays in mascot racers from the past decade! These games sped ahead from the rest of the competition and delivered some of the most high-octane racing entertainment imaginable and in video game form. After you've perused the picks here, give a shout out to which of these mascot-led racers are your favorites."
Wow, they gave it a "NO". That's surprising. Oh well, I enjoyed the demo and I bought it straight after. Getting it for Christmas
Gotta be worth £25 for the limited edition right?
This is the only negative review I've seen for this game so far. Weird.
It's a good game, but I tend to agree with them.... the game gets way too hard, even on the medium difficulty setting....
I'm all for a challenge, but the hard level is ridiculous.
Add in the fact that there are no advantageous shortcuts in the game at all, and it's a little disappointing.
In addition, I agree with him on this point, I actually dread transforming into the boat and the plane... I personally prefer the classic levels where you stay in a kart the entire race..... I hope Mario Kart Wii U doesn't try and go for the 'transformation' angle like this game and Mario Kart 7 did...
Guess I'm a purist when it comes to my kart racing...
Ha, even the comments section there all disagrees.
This is a brilliant and fun game, 90% of the public seem to think so, 90% of the gaming press think so, and obviously I think so. Kotaku has its head up its ass on this one.
Sure it's hard on HARD and EXPERT difficulty, what do you expect. People have gotten far to used to instant gratification and hard modes being relativly easy. Im enjoying the challenge, ive gotten past every hard mission and I'm chipping away at expert. It's great it has that replayability and you feel great accomplishment when you finish something on the higher difficulties.
Most sites are saying Mario Kart should take some ideas from this game and yet Kotaku say the opposite...what's up with that?