Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

[Vic Boss]

Not entirely sure. I can do it with Ryo when the timer is fading from "2", but I've yet to be able to do that with anyone else. Hmm.

[Detective Shadzter]

I want an RC of Aiai's Blazing Banana vehicle with Jen in the seat shouting Super Horn for my Avatar to play with *shot*

[GameboyHero]

Quick question - is the timing needed for a starting boost the same for each character? I seem to be able to do it with everyone except Sonic... this may just be some really weird coincidence, but I'd be interested to know

Seems to be a bit different for everyone. I can nail down Big's & Ryo's no problem, but everyone else I'm having a bit of trouble.

[Clisp]

Generally light and medium characters have it at 2 and heavies have it closer to 3.

[Cortez]

So when can we expect the DLC to be announced? Soon isn't good enough xD

Also, do you doing multiple pieces of DLC, or is it just going to be a one off thing?

[Detective Shadzter]

I want AAUK in the giant Sonic costume as DLC, he should be driving the Sonic Spinball roller coaster and his All-Star Move would be Merchandise Menace where he throws the other racers free Sonic & SEGA goodies which entices them to let go of the wheel and crash into a barrier

[Vic Boss]

Okay done some more racing. For best kart racer ever, it's between this, Mario Kart Super Cicuit and CTR.

Geez, I didn't expect this to be so much fun. It's really good.

[CNash]

Random question from me, anyone know what counts as taking out the a Zom-er Mutants for the achievement? Does just hitting them with your car count or does it have to be weapons based?

Although I never actually did this achievement myself, apparently you have to hit the zombies creatures with a weapon or boost through them in order for them to count as "dead" ...er, "deader". You can't just drive through them or otherwise take damage from them.

[nuckles87]

Oy, S0L, I got some questions:

1. Is it already too late to start demanding specific characters or tracks for DLC?

2. When was the cut off point for character inclusions in the game itself?

By the way, I'd love to see Ristar, Lagi and Keil from Panzer Dragoon 1 (you can do flying characters, and the the colorful cartoonly blue dragon from the original game would fit quite nicely ), Vyse, and finally the Daytona car.

Oh, and Soft Museum from NiGHTS ftw .

Excellent game you made here, Sumo. I wasn't too big on SST, but you've really outdone yourselves here. Well done!

[Detective Shadzter]

The game's been given a nice bit of attention on the Inside Xbox new releases video, the group pic is there and it was first shown though I cant see why the gameplay they use is like random camera views and no music. They arent really showcasing the game properly, if I was a random Xbox 360 user with barely any knowledge and looked at that I wouldnt be very enticed.

[Barry the Nomad]

So, has any über Sonic fan gone about trying to derive a storyline from the game?

Warning: contrived fanboy ramblings:

If one ignores the other non-Sonic racers and tracks, there is a rather interesting "plot" to be found in SASAR by reading the character bios, track selection and Sonic missions.

First, lets take a look at the Sonic R plot (from the GHZ):

While out on an aimless adventure, Sonic and Tails come across a giant electronic billboard advertising the World Grand Prix, a race to determine the fastest person on the planet. Tails becomes giddy over the prospect, eager to see how he stacks up against the world's speediest. Sonic, not being particularly interested in racing, is less receptive until he spots Eggman's name on the list of participants. He immediately dashes off to register, leaving a surprised Tails to catch up.

News of the World Grand Prix spreads quickly, and when Knuckles hears of Sonic's participation, he signs up himself with the aim of settling their vendetta once and for all. Amy Rose, meanwhile, signs up for yet another chance to seduce her blue beau. The whole sequence of events is monitored by a spy satellite belonging to none other than Dr. Eggman, who is tickled pink that Sonic has fallen right into his latest trap. It seems that the bad Doc has detected the 7 Chaos Emeralds along the route of the World Grand Prix and would just as soon let Sonic and co handle the grunt labor of hunting them out. Once the Emeralds have been located, appropriating them should be a breeze with Eggman's new secret weapons...

With the above in mind, it isn't a stretch to think that some sort of competition has been established in SASAR which pits the Sonic characters against one another. Nearly all of the characters mentioned above (Knuckles, Amy, Tails, Eggman) would have the same motivation to race in SASAR as in Sonic R. Shadow could be racing by order of G.U.N. to monitor Eggman, Big could be racing just because he likes to have fun.

Reading the character bios, one can find that the following took place before SASAR: Obviously, Sonic Heroes has already occurred. Eggman seems to have repaired the Egg Fleet and, unlike Heroes, is not a prisoner of Metal Sonic (maybe that's why he's doing the same thing again, because it wasn't him the first time ). From Tails' bio we learn that prior to SASAR Eggman attempted to invade South Island. After the failed attack, Tails built the Tornado Racer from parts found (maybe Eggman damaged some of Tails larger planes?). Tails also constructed the Speed Star for Sonic, as the racing competition did not allow running. The race probably makes the obvious progression of Seaside Hill, Casino Park and Final Fortress, with 9 tracks in all.

To be even more of a nerd, during the races a number of smaller events took took place including Amy chasing down Sonic (mission 1) and Eggman attempting to destory Sonic with a large robot (final mission).

Of course it could be that there is no plot, its just a game and all of the above is rubbish.

[GameboyHero]

If anyone' curious, some DS screenshots brought to you by Master Emerald of Sonic Retro:

[Carbo]

Oh my fucking god I love this game

[KS8_Wiiloveit]

Thanks for the DS screens.

[JezMM]

I have a bizarre OCD request: Can someone tell me which Samba Di Amigo song was unlocked at the start? Carnaval or Samba Di Janiero? I've been buying a new song for each new "version" of each track and can't remember which of the two I just bought before this GP. D8

Btw got it on both PS3 and DS and it is awesome. I loved playing DS first then seeing all the tracks uber-prettified on PS3. So glad they included motion-control too.

[Doctor MK]

I have a bizarre OCD request: Can someone tell me which Samba Di Amigo song was unlocked at the start? Carnaval or Samba Di Janiero? I've been buying a new song for each new "version" of each track and can't remember which of the two I just bought before this GP. D8

I believe it's Samba De Janiero, but I don't know much about Samba De Amigo so may be wrong

[Barry the Nomad]

It's Samba Di Janiero, Samba de Amigo is (I think) not in the game.

[Detective Shadzter]

Been winning a few games online on the PS3 version being Amy and I keep getting called a fag, I love this game

[Carbo]

Well that's odd. I just played Pinball Highway and the game suddenly crashed.

Thank god I didnt get RROD'd.

[GameboyHero]

Been winning a few games online on the PS3 version being Amy and I keep getting called a fag, I love this game

That just sounds hilarious. Have anyway to record it? I would love to hear the reactions.

[Doctor MK]

Just finished the Monkey Cup (man oh man that last Monkey Ball track is evil... it seems tame compared to the other two until you get to the OMG 180 DEGREE TURNS OF DOOM - fortunately I've worked out how to get round them without too much hassle now) - epic game is epic!

To be this good takes AGES!

Now to check out some of the missions, try the harder difficulties, and unlock everything!

[bolt7]

My 360 version came today and from the hour or so I've played so far, it's brilliant! Frame-rate issues are non-existent on the tracks I've tried, but I'm not complaining if Sumo will be planning more patches to tweak things. I'll write some more impressions once I spend more time with it. ;D

I have a couple of questions to S0L if he doesn't mind;

The avatar all-star move didn't seem to work properly for me... I tried it out in a single race and instead of getting Avatars from my friends list to help, they were just random people. 8( I was logged into Live and such... so don't know what went wrong.

Also a DLC music pack would be awesome. XD I'm not complaining about the current track selection- it's pretty awesome, but yeah, more would be even better. =P

Also, the PC version works perfectly with the keyboard! I was trying to set it up with a Dualshock 2 game pad to USB converter at first, but it didn't seem to work. I wasn't so keen on trying out the keyboard controls, but they're great! It's still really easy to control your character and I've no issues with them what so ever. Heck, they're even better than Bioshock 2's keyboard controls. =X

Been winning a few games online on the PS3 version being Amy and I keep getting called a fag, I love this game

I kept winning as Big earlier- there was one track, the first Samba one, where I was ahead by a good ten seconds or so too. XD Love it.

Edited February 26, 2010 by bolt7

[Cortez]

why the fuck are there sega characters in this game!?!? this is a fucking sonic game for fucks sake i dont give a shit about ooh la la or billie scrambled i just want to fucking play as silver blaze mephiles shadow shadow android black doom iblis maria gerald robotnik and biolizard for fucks sake i hate this game

[Carbo]

I finally decided to take a little break and oh my fucking god I love it. This game shits all over Mario Kart for what it's worth and I orgasm on all the content and thought going into this. I never thought I would eventually buy this but I'm glad it did, one of my best investments this entire year.

I'll gladly play anyone online with anyone. Again, gamertag is CarbonExt. At the moment I dont have a real mainer but I've mostly played as AiAi and Banjo.

[Doctor MK]

Just out of curiosity, what is Opa Opa's All Star Move? I've bought him from the shop but am yet to see him pull of his ASM.

According to ONM, it's one of the best in the game.