Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

DAMN FINE GAME!

Crossworlds has the best racing feel of it's franchise and is debatably one of the better kart racers you can get on PC. However, this game has the most "glup shiddo" type tracks we've seen yet in the franchise (only 2nd to TSR). Plus, there's a pitiful amount of tracks, and grand prix "finales" are just these tracks merged into one. The "cross worlds" aren't even real tracks. They're one lap stages copy and pasted when you play. I also HATE how the music/remixes of this game was composed. Everything sounds like either an EDM remix you'd find on soundcloud, given vocals for no reason or remixed to appeal to 2010s pop radio. The selection here is so out of left field i have no clue how it even got approved. One positive though, the voicelines complaint is way overblown. The game focuses voicelines more towards the intros of races, and admittedly mostly from sonic franchise characters, but i don't mind the change. It keeps you focused on gameplay and is less annoying in my opinion. (yeah, its a kart racer. just give me sound effects of a character and im fine. really couldn't care less if there's voice acting here.) Lastly, major crossover content is being locked behind paid DLC. I…

Personally enjoyed Team Sonic Racing more than any Mario Kart game. Crossworlds blows TSR out of the water. Easily the best racing game I've played. I main Blaze in the Dark Chariot (Dark Reaper + Royal Chariot) with a beautiful custom color scheme. Played teams with my friend against Rival teams, they play Silver in the Neo Lightron.

Super fun game that captures the fun and exciting feeling of old arcade racers perfectly, but with the updated graphics and controls you would expect of a modern game. Great soundtrack and lots of fun and creative courses too. All the Sonic series characters you would want in a game plus a pretty big list of random crossover characters too. The only real critique I have is that all of the crossover characters aren't fully voice acted, so they feel a little bit lifeless compared to the rest of the cast. This game is very solid and probably would have sold a lot better if it did not have unfortunate release timing right around when Mario Kart World came out.

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I haven't played a Sonic Racing game since Riders and it makes me feel nostalgic.