In celebration of Sonic the Hedgehog's birthday, SEGA has revealed three new racers for the upcoming title, Team Sonic Racing, during a live stream event in Tokyo.
These characters include Big the Cat, four Chao in one vehicle and Sonic's love interest, Amy Rose. Amy's reveal might not be much of a surprise, but it's certainly nice to see the return of Big and the adorable Chao. The previously revealed racers include Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, E-123 Omega and Rouge the Bat. Nine of the 15 characters have now been revealed.
Are you glad these three characters are in the game? Are you still hoping certain others make the cut? Tell us in the comments.
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Shock of all shocks! Amy Rosewill be playable in a Sonic racing game! Next you’re going to tell me that Luigi is playable in Mario Kart or something.
I will not buy it, until i can play Alex Kidd and Wonderboy. They are my childhood heroes, not these guys.
@Pestilence did either of them ever appear in sonic (pure sonic not a side game) series game?
@edgedino No, but Alex Kidd was playable in All-Stars Racing, so i'll wait until they annouced the dlc charakters.
I don't understand Sega.
They had a good game, with lots of characters from their different IPs, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed had good critics and the game was really fun.
What do they do? They remove all the non Sonic characters. And they tell us the game will be very different.
Why? Why not building on your success and make a game even greater? You own all these IPs... so why?
I too had Wonderboy and Alex Kidd as my heroes when I was young. I don't care about any of these characters and so this isn't an incentive to get this game...
@Mrtoad Luigi in a Mario Kart? What madness you spewing?!?!?
Guess they gotta reach to get a decent sized roster if they are limited to Sonic only. Still hyped.
I’m hoping, like Mario tennis, they are planning to add extra characters and content (for free) after release as 15 is shameful. That will get boring quick. How many tracks? It needs to be 30+ perhaps more with only 15 racers.
This won’t be a day one currently unless it’s not full price
The Chao team is a pleasant surprise. Great throwback to Sonic Adventure 2. My only worry is that Cream, Blaze, and Team Babylon might be getting left out. I hope I'm wrong.
What's really going to sell this is the tracks. I'm pulling for Lost World, Space Colony A.R.K., and Coral Cave.
@Deihnyx Surely they are already planning the second game which will be called 'all stars' and you will have to buy it again.
It's a shame Nintendo won't do a Smash style character roster in Mario Kart because that would be amazing. As for the reveal, all it's done is confirm my apathy for all but the core Sonic characters. The more I see of this game, the more of a backwards step it looks from Transformed
Absolutely hideous.
This is looking more and more like a bootleg Mario Kart by the day.
@carlos82 I have the feeling that Nintendo is heading to that direction since they already started including some characters from other IPs.
Let's stay hopeful
@Pestilence Yeah Alex Kidd and Wonderboy were mine too. That's why one of my most wanted games this year is Monsterboy and the Cursed Kingdom.
It's a shame that over the years SEGA focused so much on Sonic and not their other IP's. Hopefully this will change soon if some of the recent remarks SEGA has made about bringing back their older IP's still holds true.
I hope the final roster is like this, screw the 15 playable slots:
Team Sonic: Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Tails Prowler, Knuckles the Echidna
Team Rose: Amy Rose, Big the Cat, Cream the Rabbit
Team Dark: Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, E-102 Omega
Team Chaotix: Charmy the Bee, Espio the Chameleon, Vector the Crocodile
Team Classics (or Team Mania): Classic Sonic, Mighty the Armadillo, Ray the Flying Squirrel
Team Forces: Zavok, Chaos, Infinite
Team Robotnik: Egg Robo, Metal Sonic, Dr. Eggman
Team 06: Blaze the Cat, Silver the Hedgehog, Princess Elise
Team Freedom (or Team SatAM): Sally Acorn, Rotor Walrus, Bunny Rabbot
Team Fighters: Fang the Sniper, Bark the Polar Bear, Bean the Dynamite
I’m good with Mario kart
Team PINGAS: Classic Robotnik, Scratch, Grounder.
When it comes to Sonic, the only characters I care about are Sonic himself, Tails, Knuckles and Eggman. Couldn't give a toss about anyone else. I'm sure I'm not the only one. So I'll have a whopping 4 characters to choose from.I'm Allstars Racing Transformed I was spoiled for choice. Alex Kidd, Joe Musashi, Gilius Thunderhead, Ai Ai etc....
I'm pretty sure sonic has more established and cult favourite characters than Mario kart ever did. Sonic, Knuckles, Tales, Robotnik, Shadow, metal sonic and Amy. Mario Karts full of a right bunch of nobodies who came favourites because of Mario kart.
Sure it sucks that sega aren't throwing in tonnes of characters from their back catalog straight away. But neither did MK until after 8 games and even then it was DLC.
Sonic and sega all star racing and Sonic all star Racing transformed are pretty deep names for any kind of franchise
Loved Transformed. This is looking quite bland. However it's Sumo so it should be decent. Be a bit more excited if Cream the Rabbit were announced.
Looks an interesting game Def one to buy as love Sega n racing games. Plus this looks so cool
FROGGYYYY!!!
I am more concerned about not including water and air sections because those were much more fun than their equivalents in Mario Kart 7 and 8.
However, because Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is better, in my opinion, than any Mario Kart game, I am still very excited about Team Sonic Racing. The tracks look great and the gameplay as fun as always.
I'll pass if it's only Sonic characters. Or at least buy when it's pretty cheap. Needs the other characters.
Looks bland and uninspired :/ A real shame considering how much fun the All Stars Racing games were.
Wrong cat, Sega.
This certainly is not a first for a character who’d been retired to eventually be brought back.
@CuriousUserX90 Based on the news about Big being retired from the Franchise in 2012, I ended up posting this: https://www.vgfacts.com/trivia/12581/
This is definitely a first for Ciao being playable characters. What could’ve possibly been wrong with Cream being playable?
@Mrtoad My same reaction. These are pretty much staple characters in the Sonic universe. News would be announcing they are nowhere to be found.
That's pretty weird that they didn't put Cream the Rabbit in, seeing as so far they've been featuring the teams from Sonic Heroes.
Team Rose was Amy Rose, Big the Cat, and Cream the Rabbit (along with Cheese the Chao)
I think the last 6 will be:
Team Chaotix - Vector, Charmy, Espio
Team Eggman/Robotnik - Eggman, Metal Sonic, Egg Pawn
Either way, this roster feels underwhelming especially when compared to Transformed.
CAPITALIZE THE G IN GOD
CAPITALIZE THE G IN GOD
CAPITALIZE THE G IN GOD
BiG the Cat
Cream & Cheese have suffered a worse fate than Big's meme status.
They might have been... retconned. Cream hasn't been relevant since Sonic X.
Does...Does Big not have any toes??
Never was a fan of Big the Cat. Still wish this had other Sega characters beyond Sonic like the the previous games. Still got my eyes on this game though.
Would be a lot better if they revealed they’d finally killed these crap characters off.
Sonic was the hard edged more attitude filled side of the character coin from Mario. When sonic team decided to Disney-up their sonic roster, it was the start of its rapid death
behold, the Froggy Mobile, at least this one can't run away from Big
@Aurumonado https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sonic/images/9/97/A-D5.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20180315114627
@Silly_G better stolen than bad made up game. with that said
Want to know what Team Sonic Racing team mechanic plays like, check out Neo Hazards hands-on gameplay of the game and his impressions of the game so far.
@Kriven I don't even think anyone care about the guy to be honest.
BIG HYPE
WHERE IS CREAM THE RABBIT? 😥
Oh God four Chao driving one vehicle reminds me of the gremlins movie.
Is omochao the GPS?
@CuriousUserX90 you can play as Chao in certain mini chao garden mini games... That counts as playable right?
All I could think of is this.
Wait a minute... the Sonic series has truckload upon truckload of characters... and there's only 15 of them in this game? Wow...
Alright I’m 100% Racing as those Chao.
@AlexOlney Swap out Classic Robotnik with Coconuts and you'll have the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. Or the S.S.S.S.S. Squad for short.
@Pestilence you realize that this game is called sonic team racing and not sega all star's racing right?
Chao ftw
I kinda can understand why they would cut the non Sonic characters. Sonic is way more marketable and well known compaired to say, Shenmue or Alex Kidd.
Chao! Kind of odd having them seemingly replace Cream, though. Either way, I'll probably be swapping between Knuckles and the chao.
The third slot on team Rose is cream. Not a bunch of Chao. What gives?
@retro_player_22 They don't even have the rights to use Sally Acorn anymore do they?
Silver?
@Aurumonado I guess not but it would be nice to have her in a Sonic racing game for once.
No one cares about Duke Nukem the Cat
@CuriousUserX90 How about Cream being too young to drive a car? I mean, wouldn't she be cuter waving the checkered flag? And if Blaze and Silver are gonna be in it, then they might as well pair them up with yet another Out-of-Worlder, Sticks the Badger from Sonic Boom! Reason for her and not Boom Sonic is simple: Watch "Two Good To Be True," and "Eggman the Video Game Part 2" to understand why THREE SONICS from differing Dimensions is a bad idea.
@Aurumonado Cream's too young to drive! Maybe Vanilla in a sexy driving suit like Danica Patrick's or Daisy's would pull in more gamers!
Im not interested unless Chaos is playable
People are arguing that Cream is too young to drive a car when tails is 8 and some chao are participating.
(I have no idea who half of these characters are) well here’s hoping the all stars franchise isn’t dead
@Kriven Huh. Didn't know that. I'd personally rather see Shahra or Shade myself, but I know those two won't happen.
@chriscare Almost every main characters in Mario Kart had starred in their own games so I don't get why they would be a bunch of nobodies to any one and the rest of the characters in later games became fan favorites cause they are actually unique addition to Mario Kart.
Mario - Super Mario games
Luigi - Luigi's Mansion
Peach - Super Princess Peach
Donkey Kong - Donkey Kong Country
Bowser - Bowser's Inside Story
Toad - Captain Toad
Wario - Wario Land
Diddy Kong - Diddy Kong Racing
We only get 15 characters, and you waste one of the slots on Big the Cat?! Why, Sega, why? Nobody likes that dumb furball, and he doesn't even have a cult following like Waluigi does.
Well, anyway, I hope Jet still manages to make the cut
@Kriven It didn't stop them from having the Archie characters as cameos in Sonic Spinball, although that was over 20 years ago, so the licensing may have gotten trickier since then.
Ayyy my boy Big!
@Kriven Well, that's not what your comment originally said. The SatAM characters came from the Archie comic series, so it's common to apply the title to them as well.
@Kriven No, you clearly edited it at some point, because it didn't mention the SatAM series when I originally responded to it.
I’m happy for anyone that likes it, really, but I just can’t get behind this game. I was hoping for something quite different.
I really really hope they add cream, how can they just add cheese and not add cream the rabbit?! It’s blasphemy
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