Rather than just settling for being a bog standard ‘every man for himself’ racing game, Team Sonic Racing’s big selling feature is the fact that you can race in teams of three. This is an odd decision in itself – while this game technically isn’t a sequel as such, you’d think Sumo Digital would want to expand the racer’s character roster, but instead Team Sonic Racing is likely to only appeal to those who are already fans of the Sonic franchise and familiar with its characters.ĭrifting, like in all karting games, is essential if you want to win. Team Sonic Racing, by comparison, bizarrely strips back all of this to instead focus solely on characters from the blue hedgehog’s series.

The last Sega-published kart racer – Sumo Digital’s Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed – encompassed several franchises from Sega’s history. Nintendo’s own kart racing masterpiece set the bar almost unrealistically high when it launched back in 2017, and while Team Sonic Racing is a pretty decent example of the genre in its own right, it doesn’t really even come close to dethroning the king of kart racers.

No, not Nickelodeon Kart Racers… Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Booting up and playing Team Sonic Racing for the first time, it’s incredibly difficult not to draw comparisons to the Switch’s other kart racing game.

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