If you collect five special ‘Sonic coins’ hidden on each track, you can challenge and unlock 4 more bonus characters. If you clear the game, the can unlock Robotnik. You start with only four, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy. So what else is wrong with this game? Well, casual reader, there’s also the characters. Again, this hardly makes any difference at all, the only major change being that the water freezes when it’s snowing.
In order to ‘make up’ for this, the game implements different weather conditions randomly on each track. Example: one track is a city based course, while another is an industrial based course….Goodness, the ideas barrel must have really been scraped dry…. The tracks themselves are also woefully lacking in originality. When you consider the fact that Super Mario Kart, a game on a previous generation console, had twenty tracks, you can’t help but visualize the President of Sonic Team, wearing a monocle and tea from a diamond teacup, throwing money casually in the air and laughing manically. There are a grand total of 5 tracks, one of them being unlockable. When you look at the slew of Sonic games that have been released in recent years and think “This is the lowest point for Sega”, then be thankful you never suffered the slap in the crotch that is this game on launch day.
Take that away, and this game wouldn’t even be remembered for the pile of intrusive stinkweeds that it is. Let’s get one thing out in the open, Sonic R sells itself entirely on the fact that it has Sonic the Hedgehog. But often they are forgivable acts, because we all remember those good old days when playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive, killing robots to free the animals that were trapped within and never once questioning how the that kind of technology worked. And this is something Sega is known for, especially when dealing with their speedy blue mascot. Let’s shatter some game developers egos.įrankly, this is one of the most shameless attempts to sell a franchise you will ever see. Let’s examine a game that Sonic purists write off as ‘non canon’. And this was a crushing disappointment, so much so that I still feel the burn of it, 16 years later. The reason this game is so easily forgotten is because…well, because it is so forgettable! But people also forget that, at the time, a 3D sonic game was a pretty huge deal, and as a launch window title for the Sega Saturn, tension was pretty high. At least other crappy racing games made an attempt at a story, to show they were serious. There is literally no story line, it’s just a racing game with a bunch of familiar looking mascots.
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