Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Taking Kart Racing to the land, sea, and air..
Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed is a Kart Racer with 20 different tracks, over 20 characters to unlock from various sega properties, exclusive characters depending which system youre playing on, and even some weird ones like Danica Patrick..
This game features a career mode which is where all ofSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Taking Kart Racing to the land, sea, and air..
Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed is a Kart Racer with 20 different tracks, over 20 characters to unlock from various sega properties, exclusive characters depending which system youre playing on, and even some weird ones like Danica Patrick..
This game features a career mode which is where all of these characters and tracks will unlock.. but there is an online option as well as your standard tournament, time attack, and single race modes…
And youre also able to play split screen in all of these modes, including the career…
The career mode is the star of the show.. its challenging and addicting..
There are a variety of challenges and paths for you to go down, all earning you 1-3 stars for completing..
There are straight up races, theres drift challenges.. ring challenges, theres a mode where youre trying to take down a tank…. Theres my favorite elimination..
I havnt had this much fun in a kart racer in a while..
Before each race you chose your character you think will be best for the challenge youre about to take on and you go at it…
drifting and tracks for speed boosts, speed pads all over the place, constant offensive and defensive pick ups…
every race is so thrilling and you actually feel like skill matters here…
With this resurgence of arcade racers from indie teams lately.. its nice to go back and feel that balance where pickups shortcuts and timing actually matters… especially with the different stats and versions of characters… it doesn’t feel luck based that everyone is on an even playing field .. it feels like every player on the track is in their own world.. in their own race where their objective and your objective and strategy aren’t the same…
this is really highlighted in modes like elimination where not only are you racing for 1st place, but you only have 3 lives… you have to choose if youre going to risk taking a shortcut where its easy to fly off of the track, or are you going to hang in the back to deal damage, or maintain the lead trying to dodge it with a giant target on your back..
this was the most interesting mode to me and I wish the campaign had more of it..
and you heard me right earlier.. every character has different versions of themselves..
as you use a character you gain xp to level them up.. this will unlock new modded versions of them wit different stats…
so if you don’t like the base stats of your favorite character you can grind to level them up and choose a different version of them that is more your play style..
the difficulty you take on these challenges though actually do matter.. you cant just easy mode your way through the career mode..
you have to go for higher stars in modes you feel more confident in so that you can unlock alternate paths with more tracks as well as unlock characters and a bonus moderation…
this adds to the addictiveness of going back and mastering tracks or modes, increasing your star count..
And these tracks are all fun to race through.. especially with the whople transformed thing going on..
you don’t get to choose when to transform but as you race there will be sections where youll be plying through the air, or racing through the sea just to land back on land again.. and all 3 of these flow perfectly, none of them annoying.. I hate flying in games.. I hate controlling planes.. but it feels responsive and smooth here, you hardly notice that anything has changes…
My favorite thing this game does that I wish it did more of is actually tranfroming the map as your race it..
there are some really cool maps that the final lap is completely different than the first 2 as things start to fall and crumble..
I wish the played with this idea more, making every lap in every tracks different..
Sonic * All Stars racing again is probably the best Kart racer not on a Nintendo console and is a must play for fans of this genre
I give Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed an 8/10… Expand
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