That way, he could possibly triumph over his greatest enemy. The game starts when Eggman has once again been defeated by Sonic's incredible powers of speed, and as his latest project lay in ruins, he finds himself in a state of agony, wishing he could just match Sonic's speed and take his greatest advantage away from him.
As most if not all of you probably agree, Sonic R was maybe the worst game for the Sega Saturn and among the worst in the series of Sonic games. This way, it would best be able to keep up with some of the gems that have been coming from Sonic team, like Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations.Īs some of you may know, I launched a challenge for my birthday that involved doing remakes and/or sequels for horrible games that could have been good, but met with bad fortune in design. Sonic R-echargedwould be the distant sequel to the original Sonic racing game Sonic R, and it would be for the most modern consoles, such as the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, and 3DS. Sonic R is a good rental, but it is so short that you'll probably finish it the day you rent it.These are some of the more important characters in the game, and it may be what the roster screen would look like. In the end it seems Sonic R is a neat racing game, but be warned it is a racing game and not a real Sonic game. But quite honestly, even after I finished in first place on a course, I had almost no desire to ever race on it again.īesides the Grand Prix mode there is a time attack mode that lets you try to beat your best course time and a two-player mode, which lacks any fun whatsoever. And as was the case in the previous Sonic games, if you collect all of the Chaos Emeralds you get Super Sonic. The hidden characters are mostly robot versions of the already playable ones. If you beat him you get him as a playable character. This will allow you to face the hidden character for that course in a challenge mode.
You have to pick up the five hidden coins on a track and place in the top three. The other four hidden characters are quite a bit more difficult to unlock.
Robotnik when you finish first in every race. Sega tried to give Sonic R replay value by putting hidden characters in the game. There is a hard mode for more of a challenge, but in the end there simply should be more tracks. And although I had only done it with one of the four selectable characters I still had finished in first place on all five of the tracks. Within the first hour of playing I had finished the game. And that's my biggest problem with Sonic R. And with all of the familiar Sonic sound effects, Sonic R has more in the personality department than in the depth department. It gives the game so much more personality. I think that a lot more games should have songs with vocals. It's mostly the sense of speed that you feel as the track goes zipping by while you're running that makes the game look really cool.Īs far as the sound and music are concerned, I thought they were great. Although there are some clipping and pop-up problems, the overall graphics are pretty good. The usual cartoon look and feel of previous Sonic games comes across well in the 3D polygonal world of Sonic R. Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Sonic, and the rest of the Sonic team are all ready to burn rubber.shoe rubber that is. Sonic R for the Saturn features all of the lovable characters from Sega's previous Sonic games in a 3D racing game.