It looks like a sequel to last year's so-so Sega racer Sonic Riders is heading to PS2 and Wii.
According to PlayStation mag PLAY, the board-racer follow-up, called Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, is set to star bird bloke Jet the Hawk and a cast of Sonic's mates, as the blue hedgehog and co tussle for a mysterious artefact across courses like 'Botanical Kingdom' and Crimson Crater'. A normal day in Sonic land then.
Apparently the original game's trick system - which was one of its better features - is set to return, whilst the turbulence mischief has been given the chop. Here's hoping they dedicate some attention to the awful handling as well.
As you can imagine, with PLAY being a PlayStation mag and all, there's currently no details on how the Wii version will play.
Sega's UK arm was unavailable for comment at the time of writing.
You can read our review of the original Sonic Riders right here.
When will Sonic Team finally get their tiny heads around the fact that the best Sonic game in the last decade is Sonic Rush, and it's... dun dun dah! 2D!
Quit making sily spin-offs that are bound to receive average reviews (they always have done) and make the on-the-rails 3D or hi-res 2D platformer console fans have been waiting for since the Mega CD!
Gotta agree with mappman, sonic team need to sort out sonic or kill the franchise as that is what they are doing slowly. Sonic would be best fitted to downloadable 2d titles at present on the live arcade,psn and wiiware. A 2d sonic game with old school gameplay with visuals on the new systems would be godly.
Sonic would be best fitted to downloadable 2d titles at present on the live arcade,psn and wiiware. A 2d sonic game with old school gameplay with visuals on the new systems would be godly.
That's what I imagine too. But they still seem to want to drag Sonic kicking and screaming into 3D. I imagine it to look a bit like Donkey Kong Country; sprites made from pre-rendered 3D models. Of course nowadays you could just use 3D models on a 2D plane but that's the look I'd like to see.
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