Team Sonic Racing™

oooh, the Mazing!

Team Sonic Racing was a big hit i really loved playing it and the online racing thing was fun playing with other people was the greatest thing ever some players were mean but i loved this game UwU

it gets repetitive as hell with the constant repeated track themes but it's a pretty damn solid racing game

transformed clears however

fast

I love playing this game so much with my gf.
It's like a kart racing game with great graphics, requires skill and mechanics, and really satisfying gameplay!
I just wish there was more!

I like the cars, mods, etc, but drifting feels off. Probably the second best kart racing game on PC, the first being Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed, but that's because the latter is really good.

GOTTA GO FAST

I seriously want to like this game so badly. I'm only writing my first review because I think this had the potential to be a much better game than it ended up being. It's a simpler, more grounded racing experience compared to All-Stars Racing Transformed, which many see as a bad thing but I really don't mind it because that game was a bit visually overstimulating to me. The tracks all have many different pathways so you're constantly choosing if you want a boost or an item box. It controls wonderfully, the character interactions during a race give the game a winning personality and honestly, when the game lets you have fun you do have a lot of it.

But there's just some things that have been included that don't seem to have been balanced so well and they mess up the experience, chief amongst them being the Team Boost mechanic. When you play single player on the higher difficulties the opposing teams tend to just sit on their Boost until the last possible second and boost past you, and there's nothing you can really do about this unless you have a Team Boost waiting as well. So the races aren't entirely about how well you navigate the course, it's about who can fill their Team Boost meter quickest and most frequently. Since the rubber banding is pretty obvious in this one, and the items are incredibly frequent, it's hard to build up a significant lead and then you'll just have Big the Cat blitz past whatever lead you had on the final corner anyway. As the mechanic is, it feels unfair, and I hope it's re-tuned in the sequel, perhaps making it so you can't just sit on your boost all race until you want to use it.

Secondly there's the challenge missions. If you're going for all Platinum medals, sometimes the challenge can feel rewarding to complete, and sometimes it feels like it's a bit too much. You only barely get enough time to achieve the Platinum target, so the margin for error is often very small and your run needs to be essentially perfect. I can usually get Gold, but I'm sitting 7 stars short of having every star in the game. A few of those I can recognise as a skill issue, but there's a couple where I just cannot see the path to winning. The Target game is the worst offender, since that seems to come down to crossing your fingers and getting lucky with your missile spam. More of my playtime has been spent on these than on racing and honestly, they're just not that fun.

Finally I've really got to mention the roster. A Sonic focused racing game is fine by me because, quite frankly, I never much bothered playing with any of the non-Sonic characters in Transformed so I don't really mind that Amigo and Wreck-it Ralph and Danica bleeding Patrick aren't here. But if they ARE going to just have Sonic characters, then why is the roster so small? Why are there so many glaring omissions? There's no Espio and no Charmy, and yet Vector gets shoehorned into a team with Blaze and Silver. Cream's been booted off of Team Rose in favour of a bunch of Chao. This would have been the perfect game to see the Babylon Rogues make a return, too. I'm not saying any of these characters are required, because of course they're all very niche, but the roster's very stripped back compared to Transformed and I'm not really sure why.

I am accentuating the negative only out of frustration for what I do think had the potential to be a much more enjoyable game, were the team mechanics only better balanced, the challenges were more fair and the character roster was a bit more robust. I'm not much into playing online so I can't possibly comment, but reading around it seems it's pretty dead. Hopefully with the sequel announced the developers see what worked and what didn't in this title and we'll have an improved experience in the next game, and I'd recommend anyone on the fence with this one to sit tight and check out the next one instead.

(First comment ever, so sorry for the language, typos and all. Feel free to add/correct any thoughts.)

I give a thumbs up for this game, but I have really mixed opinions.

What I liked in Team Sonic Racing:

In short,

32:9 support! Thumbs up!

Do NOT buy this game. Excessive loading times and the game will occasionally hang before races start and never progress. Steam refused to refund even with 50mins of play. Thanks for nothing

Very fun kart racer that feels distinct and is not just a mario kart clone

Despite what quite a few of my fellow Sonic fans would say, this is some of the most fun I've had in a Sonic racing spinoff title, and I believe it's one of the best. (Getting this in before Crossworlds, lol.)

vector my fav lalalaalallaaal

This game really had potential but is way incomplete. I still have a little fun now and then but it's getting repetitive due t o lack of options and customization.
So only buy it on heavy sale or if you're a Sonic fanatic.
SEGA only did the very strict minimum to call it a full game imo.

Dead upon arrival, killer soundtrack though.

good game, wish each racetrack was different imo instead of having 3 racetracks for one area.

😁
• Good on Deck

☹️
• Not as good as the other Sonic racing titles
• Runs great with the best settings, but the Steam Deck fan is loud

Game Score: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Really great game to take a break from time to time!
Fun and with the right pace! And great music!!!

Sonic does not view Israel as a legitimate state

Do not buy this game if you want play online multiplayer, or you want team race with your children of friends.

Single player: It works, but not interesting.

Multiplayer: Online is dead, It has no online players. Horrible network code. Even if you find somebody in online lobby, the game will crash soon after starting multiplayer race.

Online race sometime works when we create our own lobby and connect to it (2 machines in one LAN), but when another remote player connects to us or we connect to other player's lobby the game will crash 100%.

this game is amazing

very under rated

I was having a lot of fun playing but the online play flat out does not work. The game cannot register what place players are in and displays incorrect information. Furthermore, the third map in an online grand prix just does not load and puts you in an infinite loading screen. No joke I was having fun but the online is maybe the worst I've ever seen.

This game fixed my marriage

It's a pretty good game, but in all honesty, you're looking for All Stars Racing Transformed or even Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers [*cough*lookitup*cough*]

Sonic is cool... but Sonic in a car is EVEN COOLER

Team Sonic Racing is the successor to the great Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed; however, that doesn’t mean it’s a better game. In fact, I think it’s a downgrade in most aspects.
As a kart racer, the driving gameplay is at least good. Turning and drifting are responsive and satisfying, rewarding you with boosts. However, there are no more vehicle transformations, only karts, which I understand, but it’s a bit sad to see them gone.
One downgrade is the roster. There are no more characters from other SEGA games, only 15 characters from the Sonic franchise. The same applies to the tracks—they’re all based on Sonic games. At least the tracks and music are good. Still, it’s disappointing to see only Sonic characters this time.
However, the biggest change—and one I wasn’t a fan of—was making the races team-based. There are 12 racers in 4 teams of 3, and the results are based on the team positions. That may work in online races with friends, but it’s just annoying in single-player. Even if you’re a good player, you’re still relying on your teammates’ AI not to drag you down, and that isn’t fun, especially when they’re often dumber than your rivals’ AI. That’s my main gripe with this game—this team-based approach isn’t much fun in single-player.
And that’s most of the campaign, which is short and features an average story with poor presentation, reminding me of portable games. Other than that, there are single races, time trials, and online modes, but I didn’t try those. Also, you unlock customization parts with a random lootbox-style system, but fortunately, there is no monetization involved. Still, it makes me wonder if that was even considered.
Anyway, I think this game is a disappointment, especially because it was released 7 years after the previous game, and it’s not as good or enjoyable. It feels rushed as well. But it’s not a bad game, and I can still recommend it on sale if you like the genre. Just lower your expectations a bit.

honestly just play All-Stars or Transformed instead. the whole game is just luck based, in order to even progress the story, you just have to pray and hope that your AI teammates don't suck, and that the AI opponents don't suddenly just start cheating, because you can go from 1st to Last in a matter of seconds.

mario kart but buffed

This is a fun game to play as a pass-time with your family and/or friends. The game features fun in-race dialogue between characters, item boxes, good music, decent graphics. All of the characters are unlocked and ready-to-go when you first open up a game. It is similar to those games of The Mario Kart series, so if you're both fan of Sonic and Mario you will like it. (I am new to the Sonic franchise so I can't say whether or not it matches it's previous games. I haven't experienced it.)

Something to look out for is the controller layout; the game does support different controllers (PS, XBOX...) however the button layout you'll see on the screen will show you NINTENDO button layout instead of the one matching your controller as it is it's official layout you cannot change.

- You will have to figure out which button does what if you have a different controller. It is easily found on the internet.

Super Awesome! (have not played it)

this game really feels like team sonic racing

o jogo é bem divertido, as pistas são legais, mas os bots beiram ao impossível, chega a ser injusto

This is the 3rd sonic karting game following Sonic and All-Stars Transformed, and also the spiritual successor of Sonic Heroes.

The game itself plays like the other sonic kart games, but it has a twist, you have to constantly work with your other 2 team mates in order to be able to win races. This was a pretty strange experience when I first started the game, but grew on me over time. It certainly isn't the best, but it is a pretty fun experience, especially when you play online.

As I was going for all achievements, I noticed that the challenge levels will give me a very hard time. And to be fair, they did make things difficult, but I managed to get through them. However, the Grand Prix from the Team Adventure absolutely broke me. I don't understand why Team Rose was so overpowered, even more powerful than Team Dark.

Over all, this is a pretty good choice if you love racing games and if you love sonic.

i love playing online matches! very active community :)

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The game is fun with friends provided that you have some. The online in the beginning was plentiful and vast. But as time has passed and people dropped the game for newer titles. The online is sort of baren. Unless you have a dedicated group of friends/rivals/randoms banding together. It is hard to get a Ranked Match together. You need to go on Casual Races instead.
The music in this game is solid and it is one of the last Crush 40 Works in a Sonic title as of late. Majority of their songs and remixes by Jun Senoue and others gives this game quite a longevity it needed. It holds its own decently compared to Sonic & All Stars Racing and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed.
Just wish that the game kept getting updates from Sega/Sumo Digital. It needs a revival.

#ZavokSweep

TSR is honestly a really solid racing game! I hate that people dislike it because of it not being Sonic Racing Transformed, each of the 3 games (and counting I hope) have their own gimmicks, I'd rather it be this way than to just have the rest of the series be Transformed clones imo.

Definitely a fun game, even solo. Have to still try the multiplayer mode with friends.

Good but not as good like sonic all star racing transformed in the ps3
:D

amazingly

Dumbest AI I have played with. No matter how perfect your race in story mode is, your team mates are just dumb.

A lot of the heat comes from people saying its not a Sonic Transformed 2 which confuses me because it not really trying to be. What I like about sonic racing games is they are different especially their gimmicks and gameplay focus for each game in the franchise. That's why each one stands out on its own, unlike the same Mario kart for 20+ years yet again barely adding anything new to the formula which is not a bad thing for Mario kart.

Its a solid Racing game and also a solid sonic racing game, but its not Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Sonic Transformed which is a deal breaker of some. I think you can enjoy the older/ other games while enjoying this its pretty different in its mechanics enough to stand out on its own. Wait for a great sale deal though.
Also whats with the performance issue of the game?

The team mechanic is really fun and makes the game feel different from other racing games but unfortunately, online is dead. I really think this game would be fun if the sale were to bring in new players.

Other than that game is okay, I've actually had a lot of fun playing the "adventure mode" (single player campaign). Sumo Digital's racing games always have a... distinct feel to them, like you're constantly being pushed forward and strictly forward, which when compared to something like Mario Kart almost feels like you have less control. If you've played the SEGA racing games, you're probably already used to this feeling. Not a bad thing, just a distinction.

Very rarely there's "jank" with certain wisps like quake where you'll just be allowed to drive through it, without spinning out, which I can only assume is a bug as I wasn't playing a power type every three instances I've seen it happen.
Tracks are cool, and the music mostly makes up for a few of them being re-used from the previous sonic racing game, pretty sure some of the character animations are too but I could be wrong.

The peak of this game is the team mechanic, in-game dialogue (Team Dark makes me so happy) which is just fan-service and the incredible music with Jun Senoue, Tee Lopes and others. It makes playing the game feel so good. The story however is really nothing special and feels very Boom era in it's writing which, if you're a fan of, good for you.

I do wish this game kinda committed to something more though but ultimately it's okay if you really like sonic and if you don't, probably best to play something else.

The team mechanic is fun but it feels like tracks would benefit from being a bit different to highlight it more or maybe more frequent item boxes to amp up the chaos and really "force" you to stay in line with your team rather than being miles ahead by lap 2 (even on expert) and just spamming item transfer to help your lacklustre AI teammates. Sometimes though, the AI performs and it makes the races a lot more enjoyable and interactive.

TLDR; if you like Sonic and your fave character is here (Not Zavok, nobody cares about Zavok bro) - buy it on sale, game's fun enough and has great music. Hopefully a small community of online players will appear one day.

as much as i hated Sonic Racing Transformed, this is sick.
it's actually fun and the gameplay doesn't feel like the same 3 maps over and over again...
also, the character selection is good, car customization is done well enough, it's just... better. i like it

It's a crying shame this game isn't as respected as Mario kart.

very fun

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