Customer Reviews

Sonic Riders

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It is hard to imagine the thrills that Sonic The Hedgehog has performed for gamers of all ages since his debut 15 years ago. While Sega has truly dominated in the status of Sonic's career, many companies like Sony and Nintendo have really started to capitalize with the promise of this great clasic character. Yet, most of the games are just truly about his platforming excitement, there have been a few in the wave of racing that tests Sonic and company to see who is the real fastest one around. Sega had that testiment before with Sonic R from its Saturn era. Now, there is another blue speed demon racer with Sonic on it, but is that just as fast & furious.

Sonic Riders for the Xbox is a wild and outrageous racer that goes beyond just running on the feet like Sonic R did. This time around, you're on air boards that hover in the air, and just more than amazing to Sonic's speed. The object of the game is that you can compete as Sonic, Tails, as well as newcomers Jet the hawk, Wave the swallow, and Storm, and many others through 16 different unlockable tracks that test your speed, accuracy and agility of speed and power. The testiments come through Story Mode, where you can play as Sonic and his heroes, or the rouges Jet and his crew, in a wild speed chase for the quest of the Babylon Treasure. There is also the mission mode that puts your speed, and control to the test in the thrill of the chase, and the abilities to pass certain requirements.

The graphics and sound are just amazing, and show and deliver the upbeat thrills of Sonic and company with grit and determination. The control is tricky to pull off at first when pulling tricks, and staying on the tracks, but it is easy to get used to. There are just also a lot of great unlockables such as Sega classic characters like Shadow the Hedgehog, Aiai from Super Monkey Ball, and Nights from the Sega Saturn classic, and just some great air boards too.

All in all, Sonic Riders is a fairly good racer, that has just so much to play around with. Nevertheless, I just wish there could've been a lot more in the thrill of the chase to play around with. Still, it is a great gamne for Xbox owners, or for anybody who loves the speed of Sonic.

Graphics: B 1/2+

Sound: B

Control: B-

Fun & Enjoyment: B

Overall: B 1/2-

this game was shipped quiclky love the time sensitive manner arrived before xmas kids love it. it was in great condition thank you.

First, I am basing my review on only playing this game on the XBOX 360, not on the original XBOX.

On the XBOX 360, Sonic has never looked better! In HD resolutions, it upscales beautifully. On a wide screen monitor, it pillerboxes the picture, but that doesn't have any adverse effect on game play. I wish all older XBOX games would look and work this well on the XBOX 360.

As for the actual gameplay, it plays just fine. The anime style cut scenes run at full frame rate, and the only minor gripes are the controller configuration. It would be so much easier if it let you remap the tricks to the right analog stick, instead of forcing you to move your thumb to the buttons. You also cannot remap the left and right triggers. On modern racing games, we have all grown accustomed to using right trigger gas, left trigger brake.

Sonic Riders is the second game of the Sonic R series. No it's nothing like Drift.
Instead of Running, you use a Xtreme Gear, a board that is powered by Air and other things of course.
Since it's a racing game, you can't make much of a story but that shouldn't matter too much since the whole point of a game is race.
At a first glance, Sonic Riders is a fast pace and may look a bit difficult to control but in reality it isn't.
Instead, it is a game that is easy to control and the graphics for the time it came out are pretty good.
There is over 10 characters and more than 10 different maps, that may be edited from day to night but still giving a different experience. what makes this game so good is his fluent control and the replay value to unlock characters. Mission mode let put your skills to test to gather items, trick to score, beat the clock, etc.
In overall, this game is good and way better than Sonic Riders Zero Gravity.
Give it a shot, you won't regret it