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Play Overview
Sonic Racing (2010) is the latest kart racing game in a series featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and other Sega characters. Like Mario Kart, you control one of 15 characters in races using fantasy sports cars, while performing tricks, drifting, and collecting power-ups.
Team Sonic Racing stands out with a focus on cooperative gameplay (a little like Mario Kart: Double Dash or competitive character-based online games like Overwatch). You form part of a team of racers to win races through efficiency rather than speed. Game modes include competing to earn points, time trials, customising the racing rules, and a story-driven tutorial campaign.
Your team can draw on three types of racers: speed, technique, and power. You need to balance these abilities and pay attention to how teammates are performing. Sharing power-ups and ensuring all teammates finish well gets more points.
It’s from the same developer as previous Sonic Kart racing games, that offered more traditional one-vs-everyone racing:
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Sonic Racing 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 months ago.
Team Sonic Racing stands out with a focus on cooperative gameplay (a little like Mario Kart: Double Dash or competitive character-based online games like Overwatch). You form part of a team of racers to win races through efficiency rather than speed. Game modes include competing to earn points, time trials, customising the racing rules, and a story-driven tutorial campaign.
Your team can draw on three types of racers: speed, technique, and power. You need to balance these abilities and pay attention to how teammates are performing. Sharing power-ups and ensuring all teammates finish well gets more points.
It’s from the same developer as previous Sonic Kart racing games, that offered more traditional one-vs-everyone racing:
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) on Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012) on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Vita, 3DS, PC, iOS, and Android.
- Team Sonic Racing (2019) on Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Sonic Racing 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 months ago.
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Play Style
This is an Action and Race game with Collecting elements. You can play with 1 to 5 players in the same room or as a 12-player online game. Team Sonic Racing supports four teams of three competing online, for a total of twelve racers at a time. You can race four players split screen offline, although you can only have teams of 3 working together.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed supports 4-player local multiplayer on consoles. The Wii U offers 5 player local play with one person using the Gamepad controller.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed supports 4-player local multiplayer on consoles. The Wii U offers 5 player local play with one person using the Gamepad controller.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games.
Skill Level
5+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. One family told us, "My son loved Sonic Racing even though he was only 3 years old. My dad hooked up his old PS3 and played Sonic Sega All-Stars. My son saw his grandad play them and wanted to play himself. Obviously, he wasn't winning races, but it was all about just controlling the character."
Account Rating
- You need PlayStation Plus to play online with PlayStation 3.
- You need be 18-years-old to to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold for online play, but can then configure family accounts for younger players to play online with Xbox One.
- You need be 18-years-old to subscribe to Nintendo Online, but can then create accounts for children of any age to play online with Nintendo Switch.
- You need be 18-years-old to subscribe to PlayStation Plus for online play, but can create sub-accounts for younger players of 7-years or older to play online with PlayStation 4.
Costs
Sonic Racing
 | iPhone, iPad | - | – | Free Apple Arcade |
 | Switch | - | ||
 | PS4 | - | ||
 | Xbox One | - | ||
 | PC | - | ||
| Mac | Unavailable On Digital Store | ||
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You need a subscription to play online:
- You need Xbox Live Gold to play online with Xbox 360.
- You need to purchase a Nintendo Online subscription to play online with Nintendo Switch.
- You need to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription to play online with PlayStation 4.
- You need to purchase a Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online with Xbox One.
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Game Details
Release Date: 23/02/2010
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Players: 1-5 (12 online)
Genres: Action, Race and Collecting
Accessibility: 1 feature
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: Sumo Digital Ltd (@SumoDigitalLtd)
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