In Mother's Canyon, for example, we have to avoid rotating saw blades and propel along winding track inversions, and in Haunted Castle we had to drift our way around towering clock gears and the blows of axe-wielding knights in armour. Each course is visual treat washed with bright colours and each has its own specific motifs and mechanics taken from Sonic's adventures. Scrapped are the water and flying segments but this didn't bother us too much as we found those to break up the flow of races anyway. There's a total of 21 tracks within Team Sonic Racing with personal favourites such as Whale Lagoon and Pinball Highway making a return from All-Stars. The lineup does feel more focused though, and we get that this racer is completely separate to All-Stars Racing, but we never found ourselves playing with all 15 characters due to how bland some of them felt. Characters such as Zavok from Sonic: Lost World feel like padding and we never felt compelled to race as them. Gone are classic SEGA mascots such as B.D Joe, Ai Ai (both Crazy Taxi), and Beat (Jet Set Radio) and instead we're left with some pretty forgettable minor characters from the Sonic universe. We'll just get it out of the way now, All-Stars Racing had a much stronger character line-up. It also made things feel that much tenser as our victory could be compromised if just one team member lagged behind. We really enjoyed the emphasis on team play as this pushed us to be more tactical and to think about the race beyond just getting ourselves from point A to B in the fastest time possible. Racers are either speed type, power type, or technique type and each has their own distinct advantage with speed being better for time trials and technique type being better suited for drifting challenges. There are four teams here and these reminded us of Sonic Heroes as each member has their own specific class type. Each event also has multiple objectives to complete adding additional challenge and these are usually required to earn keys to unlock further hidden events.
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These include a Destruction mode where you have to destroy a track full of targets and a Ring Challenge mode, where you have to complete drifts and collect as many rings as possible. Most events are your typical team races and grand prixs, but there's also a handful of challenge modes exclusive to Team Adventure. You complete chapters by gaining a requisite amount of gold stars and moving from one side of the grid to the next. The adventure mode is comprised of seven chapters and sees you completing events across a classic Mario-inspired grid.
Fully animated cutscenes may have been a lot to ask for given its budget price tag, but having the characters at least move their mouths would have helped to engage us. The laughable premise gets a pass in our books as it gets us straight into the action but the problem we did have is that interactions take place over animated stills. Something seems oddly suspicious and even Team Sonic have their doubts but they eventually sign themselves up after being lured by the talk of 'supercars' and the need to satisfy their own egos.
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Team Adventure is the main story mode within Team Sonic Racing and it starts as Sonic and pals are invited to partake in a series of races by a shady figure known as DoDon Pa. It also differs from its predecessors as the focus is exclusively on the blue blur and all tracks and characters are taken from his latest adventures. Team Sonic Racing sees Sumo Digital dust off the IP for a third outing and this time the devs have taken a leaf out of Mario Kart: Double Dash's book as there's an emphasis on working together and winning races as a team. It's been almost seven years since we last saw Sonic and friends behind the wheel with the last entry being the excellent Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed in 2012.
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