Sonic Team wanted to make a Sonic racing game with a focus on team mechanic and chose Sumo due to their previous work.
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Team Sonic Racing: Review Thread
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Sonic Team wanted to make a Sonic racing game with a focus on team mechanic and chose Sumo due to their previous work.
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Wait, it's 30 on the base consoles too? Damn, that's tremendously disappointing.
Been watching some footage from people on Youtube that got a street date copy. Unless they captured the footage at 30ps by accident, that's how it looked to me.
Would love to be corrected though.
Nah, even if it had other Sega characters it'd be quite a big step down from the previous game, that's why it's not reviewing very well.
It has exactly one 90 score and multiple 60s, even a 50. Don't be disingenuous.
Only 21 tracks? And a lot are re-used? And they got rid of the cool cast of characters from the previous 2 games? And on top of that Sumo still cant make a Kart game that runs at a consistent framerate? Get outa here. No thanks.
Oh gosh the whining about Sega characters will be a big thing in this!
Here's a comparison of the Metacritic averages of the other Sumo racing games (excluding the scores for mobile/handheld versions of varying quality and ASR's lackluster PC version)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing - 76.66
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - 80.25
Team Sonic Racing - Currently at 73
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing - 76.66
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - 80.25
Team Sonic Racing - Currently at 73
NO RYO, NO BUY!
jokes aside. Some decent reviews overall from the looks of it.
It's weird for a franchise to go backwards with a sequel. And the move from having a large cast of interesting characters to having just characters from one game series is straight up lame imo.
doesnt base PS4 can only record and stream at 30 fps? only Pro can stream at 60.
edit: I'm trying to read italian Eurogamer review and seems like it says base consoles are 60 fps with drops.
Bet its gonna be another GaaS type scenario where they release a barebones game and then a bunch of free updates later on (that should have been in the game at launch) and everyones like "WOW such great support! Games great now!"
I'm looking at you, splatoon
I'm looking at you, splatoon
People don't get that but I don't blame them. In their eyes this is the next Sonic racer after Transformed.
Scores seems great. TSR has this uphill battle because is Sonic in first place.
Looking forward DF retro to clarify framerate though.
Also this game was made by a totally different Team inside Sumo than the one from the original/Transformed game.
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Aaron Webber (Sonic PR) has said on the official streams that there won't be any DLC, but maybe it's just because of the negative connotations it has. I hope so, at least they could port the missing Sonic stages from SASRT
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Referring to the original ASR there, not Transformed.
They haven't mentioned any DLC plans and the previous Sumo games have had pretty pitiful DLC (why on Earth did Transformed get 6 extra characters on PC and nothing on console?) but I really hope they go for it this time, there's plenty of stuff they could do within the Sonic universe.
I need the performance analysis stuff pronto so I can figure out what version I'm getting.
If PS4 is only 30fps for us non pro peasants then I might as well go Switch since I actually have online there currently.
On the whole it sounds like the team racing aspect actually picks up some of the slack and that my initial thoughts that the track themes may all blend together somewhat may be founded.
I'm surprised there's as many retooled tracks from previous games as there are, yet Sky Sanctuary's slick car lap from Transformed isn't among them (nor one of the recurring aesthetic themes), a shame.
If PS4 is only 30fps for us non pro peasants then I might as well go Switch since I actually have online there currently.
On the whole it sounds like the team racing aspect actually picks up some of the slack and that my initial thoughts that the track themes may all blend together somewhat may be founded.
I'm surprised there's as many retooled tracks from previous games as there are, yet Sky Sanctuary's slick car lap from Transformed isn't among them (nor one of the recurring aesthetic themes), a shame.
Went from being very disappointed in how it was shaping up at E3 last year to being surprisingly hyped for it. The extra dev time really seems to have made a difference!
It's the soundtrack I'm really here for, though. Tee Lopes AND Jun Senoue AND Hyper Potions AND Crush 40?! There's almost no way this doesn't end up being the soundtrack of the year (though if it is, it'll never get recognized for it), especially based on the samples they've released so far.
It's the soundtrack I'm really here for, though. Tee Lopes AND Jun Senoue AND Hyper Potions AND Crush 40?! There's almost no way this doesn't end up being the soundtrack of the year (though if it is, it'll never get recognized for it), especially based on the samples they've released so far.
Nintendo =/= Sega in this regard.
Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing only had one track and Ryo in a Forklift as DLC
Sonic Transformed had Metal Sonic DLC, an Outrun track, and some exclusive PC content as DLC
Not expecting much here unfortunately, especially with how this game seemingly looks to be lower budget in some places compared to the previous two. If we're lucky we'll get 3 more characters and one more track.
The lack of online play proves that's not the case.
(also 360 version had Banjo-Kazooie which automatically makes it the best)
Realistically it probably wasn't Iizuka's sole decision. But basically yeah it seems pretty likely that Sega's the reason for it being Sonic-only.
Genuinely do not think they played the same game as EuroGamer or GameXplain.
The lack of the transformation in vehicles, gameplay and tracks that made the last game unique is surely a bigger reason that it didn't score higher.
I think if Sega wanted a sequel to Transformed they would have ordered one some time in the past 7 years. This being a lower-budget Sonic game is probably the only reason we're even getting another Sumo racer.