Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection

Absolute blast to play. Although I think the 1st has a better roster and more charm, this game objectively plays way better. There's a fine mix between unadulterated item nonsense and pure driving skill and it all combines to make an exhilarating experience.

The game looks absolutely stunning, despite it's age. I'm a believer in the fact that any game can look good no matter the age, and damn does this game push that. Looks great on every console it's on, including the 3DS.

The difficulty spikes in this game though are to be feared. The AI is ruthless and will stop at nothing to make sure you feel as much pain as possible, which can also be said for the damning Time Trials and the demanding World Tour (on Expert). Beating a really hard World Tour event on Expert is the best feeling ever.

Despite my few gripes with this game, I love it to the ends of time. Is the 1st one better in some ways? Yeah. Is this game objectively better gameplay wise? Yeah. Does this game have Burning Rangers? Yeah. Does the first one have it? No. Checkmate.

I actually hate how I had to look up how to actually start this game. Requiring me to change the resolution to 1920x1080 and then Windowed also I had to Delete a file in order to actually start playing . When I finally got the game it has a cool concept ,but doesn't really age well.

This game hasn't launched in my system in two years. It's completely busted and, considering how many people report the same thing, it should be delisted since SEGA doesn't care to fix it.

The port was pretty terrible to start with, just have a look at the PC Gaming Wiki for this, that page is like an IT department's nightmare. But no, really, whatever the game may be, it simply does not work, you'll be wasting your money.

Looks gorgeous, but doesn't run great - I encountered some weird stuttering in between sections and whenever I finished a cup. The difficulty spike between C Class and B Class is ridiculous and makes me feel crazy. Some cool characters and a lot of strange ones that I can't imagine anyone wanting to play. I did like a lot of the track themes, and the layouts are good for the most part but lack some polish. The Drift Challenges are great, easily one of my favourite parts.

There are so many odd mechanics in this - Leveling up characters, slot machines for advantages in the loading screen between races, point systems, coin systems, star systems, world tour and racing cups are separate for some reason. This adds a lot of stuff to try and make it seem different from the obvious competitor, but it feels pretty scattered.

I'm sure there must be some good kart racers out there that can rival Mario Kart, but this isn't quite there. I'd give it a solid B.

Fun but good lord the merc impersonations.

This game is awesome, but the random elements can be frustrating when trying to complete hard mode. Still, a very fun game.

Extremely fun, challenging and rewarding game. My kids love it. Great for anyone looking for CTR experience.

It's a very nice "mario kart like", quite decent. You can have fun with your friends, the online mode is still working.
Though I want to say the game crashed twice in 1 hour. Also it didn't start in the first place and I had to use the Windows7 compatibility mode.
More solutions here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/212480/discussions/0/601897333646453503/


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ 1
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☐ 10

Solid family and Sonic Universe fan friendly game. All kinds of Sega characters and awesome tracks to drift, speed or bash your your way to victory on. The flying has a bit of a learning curve, but you get used to it and start owning ^.^

The best version of this game! TF2 in this game is so cool! Cool crossovers! I want more all star racing games like this!

Better than Mariokart. Instead of being screwed by an item and you can do nothing about it when you get hit, you actually can get back up front if you are good enough. (except if it's right before the finish) And overall this game has a fun career fun which mariokart doesn't have and it has a bigger variety in items that don't ruin the game, such as Blue shells and bullet bills. So yes, you should buy it, I bought it 2 days ago when it was 75% off an i already got 12 hours. Love it.

got this on sale and holy shit it's worth it.
i used to play this on the 360 years back, and completely forgot about this game till i saw it on my steam store. Sure, it sometimes feels like some races are rigged (AI magically getting ahead of you) but if you have skill it's fine.

def one of the best racers out there, highly recommend.

BTW- The game has issues launching, but if you press No on the admin prompt it'll launch fine (dunno about Linux but Windows is fine).

Games pretty fun. Its mario kart on PC can't really go wrong with it. Lots to do like grand prix where you race through 4 tracks and earn points, ghost races where you beat certain times and devs ghost, some main story where you collect stars equal to the difficulty you have it on. You use these stars to get new characters as you progress through each island.

For mods you can put some character skins in but from what i looked around for like graphics update or settings like fps mods they aren't there. Still fun but 60 fps strains the eyes when played long enough.

New game sonic crossworlds is coming out this year or next year which is a more polished version of this game. I'd say get this game if you want to play and get used to the mechanics for the next one. Its still fun but once crossworld comes out this game will be too out dated to go back to.

WAS fun until the game started to feel like it was punishing me for being ahead in the campaign mode by randomly having CPUs interrupt my stunts and having them pelt me with unavoidable items.

to get it to launch i had to run win 7 compatibility mode on the launcher. so far no issues after this

The game flat out won't turn on. I've tried everything but it just does not run anymore.

this game is really good! however, it runs terribly on modern hardware. it could use a patch or two to fix some issues like having 2 monitors or having to click no for admin rights whenever u turn it on. However, it is SEGA we are talking about so they probably do not care.

Pros
- Has leaderboards
- Nice variety of racers from different games

Cons
- The vehicles are constantly changing between carts, boats, and planes. I'd prefer riding just 1 vehicle per race on any track.
- Hard to get the game to even run. I had to turn down the settings and go into windowed mode despite running on a PC that is way powerful enough to run this game
- It says it supports 1400p but the screen just becomes off centered and glitches out

This PC port is pretty busted, and that's a shame as I absolutely loved this game on PS3. I suggest getting this game on any other console if you can (except 3DS, that version is kinda mehh).

If the game won't start, try this: open the launcher and change settings from fullscreen to fullscreen/windowed.

Fun game, more difficult than I expected. Air controls feel funky but that's probably a skill issue.

bought for 5 bucks and had at least 5 hours of good gaming times. well worth it for the price. single player campaign is good (unlocking characters fun), online play still active (at least now while its on sale), plenty of tracks, lots of variation, sense of speed good, game mechanics polished.

only downside is the ranked play is kinda brutal, hard to get points and show any kind of success if youre not constantly in the top 3 (which for me at least is difficult). For a 12 year old game though, good as balls stuff. Hope CrossWorlds is even slightly as fun

Further note: first Sonic racing game since Sonic R I've played (and way better than that)

Doesnt run without external files on modern computers.
Water parts crash the game on RTX systems.

Near perfect kart racer. Tight controls, great tracks, amazing music, and a good variety of content in both single player and multiplayer. Character selection is a little odd, not bad though.

World Tour stands out as a very fun campaign mode full of races and missions to complete to unlock characters and tracks. Even better is the fact it can be played in splitscreen.

All these years later this game is still really good in both its single player and multiplayer offerings. Goes on sale often and is amazing for a multiplayer game night, or if you want to grind out a kart racer campaign :P

I really love the graphics. can't wait for crossworlds to release

!!WARNING THIS GAME IS GREAT AND I WOULD SAY ITS A POSITIVE

However people may be having a problem with and error on boot.
Right click the games launcher in the files and change the compatibility to windows 7 and make sure you don't have controllers plugged in while booting. This should fix the error.

Hope this helps.

I couldn't even play this, the game just kept crashing right after title screen. I ended up just giving up and getting a refund.

Totally broken now, can't even launch it I keep getting an error. Many other people are also experiencing this issue, sucks because this is one of the best cart racers ever. But until they fix it, I cannot recommend buying it as of right now.

My favorite racing game. Very fun and easy to get into. Highly recommended.

Been playing this game to prepare for the release of crossworlds and let me tell ya, it was nostalgic playing through this again. I'm surprised at how many things I remember from this game as I kept playing bc I always thought I sucked at video games when I was younger lol.

Anyway this game still holds up even today, I highly recommend giving it a try before crossworlds comes out!

Over a decade+ later and I still consider this the best kart racer of all time. This "I love you Sega!" effort still holds up well. Absolute masterpiece and labour of love to Sega and their iconic IPs. If only we had something similar to this on Dreamcast.

mario cart has competition, if sonic crossworlds is just as good as this racing game, 9/10 flat out near perfect racing game.

I feel this game is slept on a little bit. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Collection is a bit of a mouthful of a name, and the gameplay in this kart racer is not groundbreaking. But it is a solid addition to the genre. Enjoyable to play alone or especially split screen. Controls feel snappy, the tracks are well designed and the characters are likable. The whole experience is just a overall good and fun time. I think it's worth the $19.99 if you are currently on the couch with a friend looking for a game to play. Otherwise, the game is regularly on sale for $4.99 - absolutely pick it up at that price.

DOES NOT WORK ON PC!!! tried playing and couldnt even get to the title screen its completely unplayable

Probably my favorite racing game ever, between my old Wii U and XBox I've probably got more hours in this game than Mario Kart. I WOULD say "You should totally get this!", if the game wasn't completely broken on Windows. Won't run at all. It did work for a while when I first got it, but now its dead. I don't see this getting fixed, with their focus on their new racing game, which is a huge shame. Sad.

If only the other Sonic games could be this cheap during sales,

Completely unplayable on my PC these days. But it's so good on my Steam deck and runs like a dream.

One of if not the best kart racer out there.

The tracks are well designed and fun to race on, the karts, boats and planes all feel good to control, there's a good amount of characters to choose from, and a really fun single player mode. If you're looking for a looking for a kart racing game that's not Mario Kart, you should definitely consider this one.

reminds me of the good ol days w mario kart

Basically a bad sequel to the previous one, the boat controls are garbage, the amazing sega games OST (like The concept of love, from Jet Set Radio and Samba de Janeiro from Samba de Amigo) are GONE, Shadow even lost it's badass bike from his bad testosterone-fueled game. This is really overhyped just because it was famous as the 7th gem mario kart for those who didn't have a wii, the previous one is really better.

Very Fun Sonic Racing Game This Is A Must Play

It fun

very nostalgic, reminds me of those days where i used to play with this game on my ipad 4, or whenever i get on youtube i watch those gameplays with no commentary. It was very limited but i enjoyed it. would recommend.

the only kart racing game ive played that compares to mario kart, really fun

This was amazing to complete on the PSVita!

A really great kart racer, holding it's own against Mario kart. A large selection of popular and iconic characters all racing head to head through different worlds. The transform mechanic is implemented naturally and doesn't feel forced, making sense for the courses represented. Great for anyone looking for some kart racer fun that's different from Mario kart

Best Kart Racing on PC. Drifting feels good and you can fly or sail too.

greatest video game ever created

1.) Mario Kart 8
2) Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed & Knuckles

This game is good except for the lag for no reason when i play this game there is always lag when i play a race so if you play this game on pc play it on xbox instead it's only $20 and it's a lot better trust me.

This game is just like Mario kart, but with sonic characters and more cooler tracks and items. Its worth buying this game and the collections.