Sonic Riders

by Sega Of America, Inc.

Product Features

• Burn up wide-open courses on airboards, battling Computer or human opponents and pulling amazing tricks for bonuses
• Revolutionary slipstreaming gameplay - Opponents generate half-pipe-like turbulence on the course - use it to your advantage!
• A cast of familiar characters are joined by a gang of new faces - All have their own unique skills
• Discover new characters in the giant Story Mode
• Up to four players in multiplayer splitscreen

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HT7RUU
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,039 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Try to Keep Up!Product InformationSonic takes on Dr. Eggman's challenge for the fastest air-rider at the WorldGrand Prix.  Compete against ne rivals the Babylon Rogues - as you pull offinsane tricks and catch massive air!Product Features Ride the turbulence to ramp up speed. Fierce racing rivalry - beat 'em or get beaten Pull massive tricks and boost your power 1-2 players battle it out Windows Requirements Windows 2000 XP Intel Pentium 3 or AMD equivalent processor running at 1.0 GHz or higher 128 MB of system RAM 3 GB free hard Disk space 640 x 480 16 (high color) display DirectX 9.0c Run-Time Library Graphics Card DirectX 8 equivalent or above Direct3D compatible Video Card with 64 MB VRAM or higher Direct Sound compatible Sound Card Windows compatible Keyboard Windows compatible Mouse 8X DVD-ROM drive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sonic Riders is a pretty fun game!, April 2, 2007

By 

KnyteOwl (Noneyaville, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sonic Riders (CD-ROM)

Having been aware of Sonic Riders because of having seen it advertised here on Amazon, and being a Sonic fan, I decided to pick up the PC version of Sonic Riders. Overall, this is more or less a mascot kart racer except that in Sonic Riders, Sonic and friends (and foes) are on air-powered hoverboards. The boards have small, and easily depleted air tanks, so you recover air at refill pit stops scattered along the tracks, and by performing tricks. When you perform tricks, you're graded on how well you performed with a rank, and the higher the rank you get, the more air you recover. The tracks initially available to you are fun, good looking, reasonably well designed, and challenging (I have the toughest time with Egg Factory and Babylon Garden). You can also try to take down opponents with weapons unique to your character, or with melee attacks as you pass them. The tracks also have shortcuts catered to the various characters' abilities--flight rings for flying characters, barriers power oriented characters can plow through (and recover air in the process), and long straight aways, and grind rails for speed based characters. You also get a good starting selection of characters, along with an assortment of bonus, or unlockables to work towards. Having not unlocked any secret tracks, and only 2 new characters so far, I feel the game could have been improved with more tracks available up front. However, as mentioned already, the ones it does have are pretty good, so that counter-balances the effect somewhat. They also seem to have done a good job refining the controls as the controls seem pretty precise and responsive with my gamepad. The game supports rumblepads, and doesn't force you to switch between using your gamepad and keyboard/mouse when you exit to the menus; this can alleviate alot of frustration when playing the game on a TV using a gamepad.

The game's Open GL accelerted graphics are very impressive indeed. On my TV at 1024x768, the game looks simply sublime. The soundtrack is loud, and distinctly techno, but it isn't obnoxious, and sounds great with a surround sound setup. You also get your fairly standard time trial mode, along with mission, battle, gran prix, and even a "survival mode" which I don't know much about because I haven't tried it yet. There's even an exchange shop at the main menu where you can buy (with rings) and exchange your boards and other gear for upgraded items. There's a big focus on skill in this game, with lots of practice involved in getting good at doing tricks (which is loads of fun), and plenty of challenging races and tracks in store. If there are any cons to this game, it's that the game is a little short, and several of the tracks are pretty hard--so it may take a while to unlock the other characters and tracks.

Overall, I tend to like this game. Like most PC Sonic titles, the production values are fairly low. You get a pretty standard box with no flap, no embossing/debossing, or jewel case but you do get a manual (for once) so, that's fairly forgivable. For my money, this isn't too bad. The game looks good, is LOADS of fun, sports lots of unlockable tracks and charaters, and is an overall impressive experience. I certainly don't see myself selling or trading it anytime soon, and am pretty satisfied with my purchase. I have to agree with the previous reviewer's complaint of not having any proper way to exit the game aside of alt-F4, but to me, that's a very minor, and easily forgivable quibble with an otherwise impressive game. Sonic Riders is a value title which actually is a good value, and most players will easily get their money's worth.

UPDATED EDIT: Sonic Riders is Windows Vista/Windows 7 compatible.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good acept for an exit glitch, January 12, 2007

By 

Jeremiah J. Burrows "041087" (Boulder, CO, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sonic Riders (CD-ROM)

I see the game more about skill than racing. Your choice of character and how you use each character determins who wins. Your skill determins your speed. In my opinion it is more racing and stratagy than Mario Cart, and it has Sonic The Hedgehog and friends, who can beat that.

One glitch I noticed about the game was that in the full screen mode there is no way to exit the game. In window mode you can close the game by clicking on the X in the top right hand corner of the window, but in the full screen mode you have to press Alt F4 to exit.

4.0 out of 5 stars good game, September 24, 2009

By 

tai chi - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Sonic Riders (CD-ROM)

I bought this for my 11 year old son. He loves the game and can't get enough of it. It has no violence or sexual innuendos. It is just a good game with good graphics.

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