Video: Fasten Your Seatbelts, The Team Sonic Racing E3 Trailer Has Landed

Holy Choa!

Still my ears! Is that Crush 40 I hear?

Hmmm depends what other games are getting released around that time. I think my time is better spent playing another game besides another kart game.

@Captain_Toad Yes it is!

WELCOME BACK CRUSH 40!

Good luck, SEGA.
But Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will always in my mind.

Awful. Why would you take Transformed and remove literally everything good about it and replace it with stuff from the awful modern Sonic games? Also, Crush 40 have nothing on Richard Jacques.

@Anti-Matter Not trying to come across as rude but you do realise you can play and enjoy this game while still liking MK8 deluxe right? You don't have to limit yourself to just one racing game unless the game genuinely doesn't interest you, which is fair enough if that is the case.

Looks good so far. Admittedly don't have as much of a connection to Sonic characters as nintendo characters but this does look solid!

this series had been the best 3d sonic game for a while now.

@Tarolusa
Eh...
Not a fan of Sonic.
Even after i watched the trailer, i wasn't impressed at all.
My reaction was like Pokerface, cold silent, means no impression.

@SegaBlueSky I agree with you. Really not impressed with this. Might be better than it looks hopefully

@Tarolusa Exactly, the more racing games the better. There's nothing wrong with having more variety, and this looks great!

Amazing profile picture by the way

@Anti-Matter Ah okay that's fair enough then if the game doesn't interest you. I thought beforehand it was a case of you weren't going to give the game a chance just because you were already a fan of Mario Kart.

@Mr_Pepperami Indeed. Even if it plays well though, the track designs are dull, the character roster is crap and the brilliant remixes of classic music are seemingly gone. All so we can race as Rouge the Bat and listen to Crush 40? No thanks.

I want this song! The game looks good, but I’m super skeptical if it will be better than Transformed.

@Kimyonaakuma Yeah, even though I love Mario Kart as much as the next guy, it would eventually get stale if that was the only racing game that was available on the Switch which is why I'm happy that this game is also a thing (and also why I hope that the rumoured Star Fox racing game is a legit game).
And thanks, your the first person to compliment my profile pic xD

They should have stuck with the transformed formula IMO, it was the one thing that differentiated this from Mario Kart enough to make it appealing on its own. That said, I'm looking forward to playing this game.

EDIT: Transforming also gave a reason as to why Sonic would need a car, but oh well.

Can't see how Mario Kart can be beaten.
Sega should should spend R&D money on a new Shining Force.

I came here to comment I don’t like it. Only hello kitty cruisers on my mind.
Only cute games

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The “edgy” music makes me cringe pretty hard. Looks ok, but it’s definitely no Mario Kart.

i'm still not such about this game, i hope Sega releases a demo for it.
but, i do like me some Crush 40.

@Orin41 To be fair, we haven't seen the tracks in detail, but the fact that this is a purely Sonic-themed game means we won't get the variety that we did in Transformed. Having tracks based on Panzer Dragoon, OutRun, Burning Rangers, Super Monkey Ball, Skies of Arcadia, NiGHTS into Dreams and Shinobi was just awesome and I'm really gutted we won't be getting more of that kind of stuff. And agreed on Crush 40 - they're fine and I liked them back in the Sonic Adventure days, but Richard Jacques' soundtrack in Transformed was incredible and again, I'd much rather have that.

I'm not seeing split-screen...

Nice glam metal soundtrack, - very 80s sounding. Don’t care for the franchise but the game looks entertaining.

@SegaBlueSky I’m surprised they stripped it down to just sonic to be honest. Sega has such a rich history of characters yet they hardly use them. It’s always sonic

@Mr_Pepperami Yep. Really struggling to understand why they'd do that when they've been saying for a while they want to push their legacy brands. There was still plenty of Sonic stuff and characters in the other games.

I'm getting it for Christmas!

@siouxrunner15 You spelled Chao wrong.

You mention fan-favourite characters, yet I couldn’t see a single one all trailer...

😉

@SegaBlueSky

For real, my thoughts exactly. The whole time I saw this I was like "So this is Transformed but worse?".

Sega should just remaster Transformed for Switch. I'd buy that up in a heartbeat, especially if they add new characters or tracks.

Do ya'll think Sega is done with Sonic & Sega All Stars series?

@Tarolusa Yeah sometimes it's good to have a racing game without getting hit with red shells every 5 seconds
The rumours about the Star Fox game sound interesting, we might have two great racing games on Switch this year (hopefully!)

I'm suprised that I'm the first to compliment it, it's from such an iconic moment 😂 The Prince of Pancakes deserves more recognition!

THE TRAILER CONTAINS NON-GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE

ha ha

Looks like a mixture of MK8 and MK8D.

Why take everything that was interesting out of Transformed and just make MK8? I don't get it.

My excitement has dropped but I may still check the game when it's out.

They should ditch the cars and make it like Sonic R.

Is the game's target audience strictly Sonic fans? You'd think they'd try to differentiate it a bit from MK8 (like the rumored Star Fox game is allegedly doing).

@Kimyonaakuma Glad to see someone else that is optimistic about the idea of a Star Fox racing game, I really hope it's real because with Retro Studio's apparently behind it we could get another excellent racing game on the Switch.

And I assume that a lot of people just don't fully comprehend the awesomeness that is Goro Akechi.

If there's PSVR support, I'll have to get the PSVR version; otherwise, I'm getting the Switch version!

wasn't a fan of the trailer.........hopefully future info puts the game in a better light

Looks like they're going back to strictly karts which excites me, I hated the flying and boating sections of All Stars transformed

I played transformed today and its terrible, runs like an old Lada compared to mario karts Ferrari

I will preorder. If nothing else this will hold me over till MK9 comes out. But I think it looks pretty cool.

Needs more flying... and boats.

The problem I'm having with this is that it seems to only be showing features that Mario Kart already has with similar style and approach but not quite as nice. I'm hoping there are some of the cool differences in progression and game types that were in Transformed or something to differentiate. Though it's going to be enough for some, of course, I'm just not into Sonic enough to be inspired by "Mario Kart, but Sonic". I'll need to see more first.

Cloud track looked cool though.

with the recent gran turisumo failure on ps4 I am getting fed up with these more lifelike ps4 games. But i love me some cartoon racer mario kart stylee day one!.

Just feels so damn generic.. like where are the stages that look like areas from past sonic games!? Racing on Death Eggs or Green Hill at least come on Sega!

Why do characters that are supposed to go faster than cars need cars? It's good to hear that Crush 40 is back though.

I’d be surprised if most people weren’t overstating the value of Transformed’s sky and water sections. The flying to me felt like a pause of the more intense track sections. The water was a little better. I’m surprised more people don’t rely on the feel of a racing game to form an opinion. The nicest looking racer with disconnected control will never be worth anything.

Yhea, sonic was my last favourite thing of the all stars games.....not really happy about this devolve -_-

I bought Sonic racing transformed at launch for the Wii U,it was a fun game so I am looking forward to this.

I'm going to wait and see what the reviews say on this one. Seems a step backwards after transformed and the stunts after jumping don't look right. Guess it's still early days though but hope it turns out to be great.

Just Sonic does not appeal to me.... A bit underwhelmed by the trailer but I'm sure the game will be good. Sumo has done great work with the series thus s far...

Not interested. I just can't get into Sonic games.

Mario Kart 8 is the only kart racer I need to be honest. I really don't care for that style of racing game outside of the MK series.

@JohnG ...or how about a new Phantasy Star Online! Since they got that all they need is to bring it over to the US/Europe, and make it a real game not that "cloud" nonsense.

That music makes me want a Sonic Adventure 3

Looks like another boring kart sim. Pass.

I buy this game just becouse of Crush 40.