Collecting power-up boxes will let you use a wisp - in Team Sonic Racing, essentially the game's weapons - which you can either use yourself, or choose to pass on to your teammates.

Instead, much like a rising tide, your performance tends to carry that of your teammates - if you're doing well, you'll drag the rest of your team up with you.Īs you skid your way around the game's outlandish, boost filled tracks, each of which is loosely based on (or inspired by?) a level from recent Sonic games, you do have a few more direct ways of helping your team catch up. Though the team at Sumo have obviously done some sort of AI balancing here, as your computer controlled friends almost never end up in front of you, it is still possible for them to end up miles behind - although in our experience, it happens rarely. If you're playing on your own, it's entirely possible that you could come first, while the rest of your team stuff up on the first corner and burst into flames, dragging your team's performance down with them. Still, the veterans amongst you will no doubt have spotted the problem here. In each race, rather your final position being determined by your ranking alone, your whole team will instead receive points based on where they finish, with the winner being the team with the most points, rather than the individual.

Rather than racing on your own, you instead have to choose your character from one of four teams (plus one secret one) - the usual suspects of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles the pink team of Amy Rose, a car with four Chaos in, and our hero, Big the Cat the 'who?' unit of Silver the Hedgehog, Blaze the Cat, and Vector the weird buff crocodile thing and one final one made up of Sonic's rival Shadow, Rouge the Bat, and E-123 Omega, a kind of spiritual successor to Sonic Adventure's E-102 Gamma. Developed instead by Sheffield-based Sumo Digital, the studio behind the original (and in our opinion, still the best) Sonic All Stars Racing, and its slightly disappointing sequel, Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed, Sonic Team Racing is a kind of 'third time lucky' approach for the studio, where the gimmick this time is (you guessed it) all about teams.Īnd if nothing else, it's actually a pretty cool idea. Despite what the title might suggest, Team Sonic Racing actually has nothing to do with Sonic Team.

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