Team Sonic Racing
Team Sonic Racing combines the best elements of arcade and fast-paced competitive style racing as you face-off with friends in intense multiplayer racing. Race together and work together as a team by sharing power-ups and speed boosts. Take control of your racing style – Choose from 3 distinct character types and unlock game changing vehicle customization options to suit your racing style. Key Features: Online Multiplayer & Local Co-Op Modes – 12 players per race, 4 player split screen, and various offline / online race modes including Grand Prix Mode, Exhibition Mode, Time-Trial and Team Adventure Mode. Team Racing – Race as a team, win as a team. Use various team moves to assist your teammates, knock out opponents and unleash your Team Ultimate. Performance & Skin Customization – Alter the appearance and handling of your vehicle Wisps – 14 spectacular offensive and defensive items to help overcome rival teams and get ahead! Adventure Mode – Unique story experience where players are introduced to basic game features and characters. Various Characters and Types – 15 playable characters from across the Sonic Universe and 3 distinct character types including Speed, Technique, and Power.
Steam User 31
This game has shadow the hedgehog in it so it's pretty good
Steam User 11
After fully experiencing all that this game has to offer and obtaining all of the Achievements and also doing the same with the previous entry in this franchise (Transformed) I am inclined to recommend this game.
Unlike its predecessor, Team Sonic Racing does not offer transformation of vehicles as needed. Instead, the key mechanic in this game is the Team mechanic. It involves basically four key parts: the ability to transfer unwanted items to teammates, ability to get a teammate up to speed after they've been slowed down by passing by them nearly with a high speed, slingshot boosts which you obtain by following a trail left by a teammate ahead of you for a varying amount of time (the longer, the better the boost you receive once you leave the trail) and finally the Ultimate which is basically going Super Sonic for a bit where you are invulnerable and going at a really high speed.
This is a really interesting mechanic and one that feels really good most of the time. You are able to tell that a lot of work went into it. Unfortunately, due to the nature of AI companions and the game relying heavily on the Team mechanic to succeed, this introduces slight RNGness to your progress of the Main Story which can impede your progress at varying degrees depending on your luck. It is also a shame that this was not compounded with the existing Transformed system, since this would make the game even more in depth and interesting.
Regarding the Main Story, I personally liked it since I found it funny and enjoyable. It's silly and lighthearted, but this is very subjective and can be annoying to some.
As is with Transformed, the Story consists of individual races, cups and challenges. The challenges spice things up a bit and help with making the Story more interesting. Some challenges from Transformed even make a reappearance such as Time Attack. Some I REALLY liked, like the Daredevil ones!
Weapons are also redone now in a way that I much prefer compared to the way Transformed did it. They are actually now a kind of living beings, known as Wisps, and I really liked the creativity with some of them!
The game borrowed too many tracks from previous entries which exacerbates the problem I pointed out with Transformed even further, which is a relative lack in original tracks and sometimes over-reliance on the Mirrored Tracks. However, I quite liked most of the new tracks and they went with the route of making them a bit less vibrant for the sake of visual clarity. They are still not as cool as the tracks in Transformed, simply due to the nature of the tracks in Transformed changing each lap.
It also offers a weird matchmaking system which makes it needlessly harder to encounter players to play with online. Basically, instead of waiting in a Lobby for too long, simply exit and reenter and don't wait too long in one cuz it is dependent on people looking for a match at a similar time apparently.
One thing that Team Sonic Racing also has going for it is vehicle customization. It is not anything crazy like Rocket League, mind you, but it is relatively solid.
That all being said, I would definitely suggest to get this game on sale, especially if you are a fan of the franchise. It is a bit sad that support for this game was dropped so fast, but it released in a really bad time with a Mario Kart Switch port and Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled being in its prime.
Hopefully, we get a sequel down the line combining all of the things we have seen in this franchise thus far, cuz it definitely has the potential to be the King of kart racers.
Steam User 10
Pretty close to 100% here and I got 2 cons.
#1 which is pretty major, there's little to no wiggle room or leniency on the platinum trophies for challenges. It will take *hours* of practice for a single level sometimes and more than once, I had milliseconds to spare. If you're used to Sonic game grind though it's not too bad? But frustrating nonetheless.
#2 There's alot of level reusing in the "mirror" level mechanic, but they're pretty great looking levels. There's an insane amount of detail, perhaps too much. Consistent frame drops and hiccups. In a racing game, especially the challenges, that's make or break.
A minor aside is a few achievements require online play which is completely dead. One requires 3 controllers irl to be connected on the same computer. Not sure if Local Play will work, but I've never been a fan of online/multiplayer required trophies.
Overall I'd give it a 6/10
Steam User 10
this rat can NOT fuckin drive
Steam User 5
I would probably give this a 7/10.
In terms of a racing game, its great. However what brings it down quite a bit is its lack of variety and content.
Positives:
the main selling point of this game is the team racing mechanic and honestly, i think its done really well. You race in teams of 3. You have to work as a team aswell, you can pass items around, use your team mates slipstreams to get boost and if a team mate is hit you can drive past them, nudge them and they get a boost of speed to help them recover. Doing these actions builds up a team boost metre and once activated gives you a great boost of speed and makes you invincible and if timed right with your team mates and executed all at the same time, it lasts longer.
You can play single player races with no teams but its more fun playing in teams.
Drivers are divided into 3 classes. Speed, Technique and Power. Speed characters have the highest speed and are usually hardest to control. Technique characters have the best acceleration and can drive on rough terrain and there are some shortcuts specifically made for them but speed and boost stats aren't usually that great. Finally Power characters are usually the slowest but are able to take multiple hits before spinning out and have a few power-ups that only they can get.
There is a pretty decent story mode which is required to beat to get 3 extra tracks. Its pretty decent. Theres text box cut scenes which are fully voice acted and tells the story. overall it could be better and could be a lot worse.
There is car customisation that isnt too deep. You can unlock 18 new parts for each part of the car (3 for Front, Rear and Wheels each and then gold varients of those parts). You can also customise the colour and patterns of the car and the horn which is kinda cool.
The soundtrack is amazing. each tune in each track is a banger. even the menu music is pretty good. My favourite track is Market Street. I love this new up beat rendition of Rooftop Run.
Negatives:
The game really lacks in variety and content. There are 21 tracks in total. Which at first seems like a decent amount but its split into 7 worlds with 3 tracks each and the 3 tracks of each world are very similar thematically which doesn't really set them apart from the other 2 which for me makes it feel like there is less. It also doesn't help that a good chunk of the tracks are imported from Sonic and Sega All Stars racing and its sequel Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed.
There is also a lack of modes. Obviously you got Story, Grand Prix, single race, and time trials both in teams and single player, but that is about it. There are special challenges in the story mode like a drift challenge, ring collection challenge and even boss fight races but they are only in the story mode and aren't accessible outside of that.
There's is also only 15 drivers to choose from that are split into 5 teams of 3. 5 Speed, 5 technique and 5 power characters which considering how many characters are in the Sonic lore is very low.
I also wish there was more customisation. Only 18 parts to collect for each character and even half of those are the same parts just a gold variant is pretty shit.
Look at Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled which came out only a month after this has more than double maybe triple the amount of Tracks, characters, modes and customisation options. I wish that gets ported to PC. We got the N'Sane Trilogy and Crash 4 so CTR would be great to also have.
In terms of online play. There is no online play unless you have friends to play with because this games online is pretty dead.
Overall despite its lack of content and variety. It is a fun racing game with a unique and fun team racing mechanic that was executed very well and i would love to see that mechanic revisited for a future racing title. Maybe Sonic and All Stars Racing 3.
I would say get this on a sale only and if it came down to a choice between the 3 sonic racing games these developers have made (Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing, Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed and Team Sonic Racing). Go for Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed because that one is the best one. Its got a good amount of tracks and characters from across the SEGA brand and even a couple guest characters like Wreck It Ralph and its Transformed mechanic is executed extremely well.
Steam User 6
Greeeeeen Liiiiiight Rideeeeeeee!!!
I actually enjoy this game quite well!
Steam User 5
It's a good game, too bad SEGA didn't care enough to improve it even further tho. get this on sale it's not worth 40$ for what you are having, wait for a sale I paid 10$ for this