The game does only run at 30FPS as opposed to the 60FPS seen on other consoles, but don’t let this put you off. The gameplay in Team Sonic Racing is pretty decent for the most part. It only lasts a short amount of time, but if all three team members use it together, its effect can last significantly longer.Īll your favourites are here: Tails, Shadow and, uh… Silver. What this effectively does is grant your character and teammates a massive boost of speed and temporary invulnerability. Utilising these features frequently during a race will eventually build up your ‘Team Ultimate’ meter. You and your teammates can help one another out in a number of different ways: you can gift weapons (known here as ‘wisps’) to one another, and in doing so treble the amount you carry in one go, or you can use your teammates slipstream to give your own kart a bit of a ‘catapult boost’. Whether this sounds appealing or not will likely depend entirely on your own play style – we found it to be a novel idea, but ultimately unnecessary. 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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