[Chooch]

Aquaslash, on Aug 23 2009, 02:13 PM, said:

D:

Come on man! We get seven Sonic characters, but can't get Reala?

Fail. I'd trade Shadow, Amy, or Big for him any day

Well, I think it's fair to say that the seven Sonic characters we have actually have a decent chance of being more unique than having both NiGHTS and Reala in the game? I doubt they'd be as diverse as the Sonic characters are even though there are so many of them.

Sonic's driving a sports car that looks like his face, Eggman's in some crazy monster truck made from his pod, Tails is racing in some sort of plane, Amy's got her own little buggy, Shadow's riding his motorcycle from Sonic '06, Big is riding.. some sort of bike (Not sure) and Knuckles is riding in a ridiculously badass ATV/quad.

[Professor J]

Despite the majority of the SST characters being 'skins' alot of them were actually major characters in the franchises they were from. Pudding is Ulala's rival, Reala is the only major character besides Wizeman and NiGHTS himself to return in JoD and is the main antagonist of the NiGHTS franchise, MeeMee is the Ms. Pacman of the Super Monkey Ball and Gum (along with Tab/ Corn) is one of the founding members of the GGs (Beat's crew in JSR). I'm pretty adamant all these characters will return, if we can get Big who isn't even a major Sonic character then I think its safe to say we can at least one other major character from SEGA's other main franchises. Though as much as I love Gum I'd love it if Professor K took her place considering he runs Jet Set Radio and narrates the entire game making him arguably more of main character than Beat himself.

[UltimaHedgie]

I think we'll get some of them to return, but not all of them. I'm positive that at LEAST MeeMee has been removed, due to the fact that she does cameo in other ways (I've heard that she appears as part of AiAi's All-Star Move, as well as in the Super Monkey Ball stage), though I also think we'll at least get Reala to return.

[MarcelloF]

I scanned the 2 pages. So here they are. Its in german though and I'm to stupid to translate it, I tried though and its a terrible translation O_O even though it sucks. It says nothing about the amount of tracks.

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VIDEOGAME-VETERAN IN POLEPOSITION

With High-speed through "Green Hill Zone"- with a tight hold on the Gokart-steeringwheel, a Drift around the curve- Thats how the worldfamous Characters of the Sonic Universe will blaze through the Race Tracks in Spring 2010.

The Sega All-Stars are staying sporty.After their debut on the Tennis Court, The gaspowered motors are now screeching and even Sonic the hedgehog, who's already fast on foot, taking place, for fairness, in the driversseat of a car. In the Staring roster you'll find other known faces, too.

A total of 20 SEGA-Heroes are pressing the gas-pedal to the asphalt. Every Character is of course bringing his own "car".While sonic is in his Sportscar,Dr.Eggman show his talent as racedriver in a Monster Truck. Tails is taking places in a light hoverboat(WTF?). And how elese could it be - The monkey AiAi is sitting in his Bananamobile.

KART RIVALRY
With one of a kind All-Star-Techniques the Game and the wild postion battles get more pep. Power-Ups and Extra Items help the drivers, fight to the front of the fast races. If a driver falls to far behind, he can activate a Supersonic-boost :Super SOnic, Banana Blitz (not sure if this is supposed to refer to the game or if its BLitz as in the german word for lighting, I'm guessing the first) or Tails Tornado will lead the Gokart drivers from last right back into the middle of the race and thus giving him a new chance to win.

For Extra-Speed there'll be Power-Arrows(might actually be boostpads in the english version) on the ground or the Player can earn a Speed boost, by doing some dangerous stunts. Up to 4 Friend can race together on one console- Online even 8!

FUN-RACING IN CLEANCULTURE (what? o.O It says Reinkultur and I don't know how to translate that so I just used ALtavista)
Sonic finally gets his own racing game-about time! Crazy Special Items and beautiful animations of the karts and Characters promise racing fun in Cleanculture (again..).Alone the thegames already fun, but with up to 7 friends S&SASR will be a real hot game.

the parts in bold that aren't underlined are just notes from me..

Sorry about the quality, I'll try to upload bigger versions on photbucket later and post it here.

This post has been edited by MarcelloF: 24 August 2009 - 02:41 PM

[Shadzter]

Two more impressions of the game from Gamespot and Kotaku. Sounding good -
Gamespot

Kotaku

[Black Spy]

Here's a nice shot of Knuckles being awesome. I don't think we've seen it before.


And here's some insight on how some of the character's All-Star Moves will work. Both from Gamespot's impressions.

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When the power move is executed, Alex Kidd's vehicle turns into his trademarked helicopter, and you can shoot at other competitors. Beat's move, on the other hand, lets you ride his skateboard and tag other enemies with spray paint. Billy's move is probably the most hilarious, though, and he rides atop a giant egg, crushing all opponents that get in his way.

This post has been edited by VirgoTheCougar: 25 August 2009 - 01:44 AM

[Dabnikz]

S0L from Sumo Digital commented on the Kotaku article. He really is all over the place. I'd like to read reviews of my game too.

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Thanks for the nice write up (and hello from Sumo!).

If you've seen the GameCon interview you'll see that we did try Sonic running, but it's not much fun being squashed flat by Eggmans monster truck

We wanted to make a proper Sega arcade racer, so it's all of them in their own vehicles. We've tried to get that OutRun/Daytona/Scud Race racing feel, then pep it up with weapons and the All-Star moves.

Anyway - thanks for the positive comments, hopefully you'll enjoy the game, once we've finished it that is! Back to the grind

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S0L
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[BlueHedgehog92]

This is my hope/predictions of the chars that will be in S&SASR

last 8 in the starting cast (some of them unlockable):
1 NiGHTS
2 Ulala
3 Gilius
4 Axel (Crazy Taxy) -unlockable-
5 Ethan Weber (P.S.U) -unlockable-
6 Ristar -unlockable-
7 Reala -unlockable-
8 Astal -unlockable-

secret chars unlockable
Blaze the Cat (in a sport motorcycle)
Ryo Hazuky
Pudding
MeeMee
Ecco

This cast would be a dream cast XD

This post has been edited by BlueHedgehog92: 25 August 2009 - 09:39 AM

[Blue Blood]

Blaze isn't a playable character in the game. Get over it already. >.>

[Dr. Mechano]

BlueHedgehog92, on Aug 25 2009, 09:37 AM, said:

This cast would be a dream cast XD

I see what you did there.

[BlueHedgehog92]

Blue Blood, on Aug 25 2009, 11:47 AM, said:

Blaze isn't a playable character in the game. Get over it already. >.>

I know, but I'm still praying for a change of idea

[Chooch]

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When the power move is executed, Alex Kidd's vehicle turns into his trademarked helicopter, and you can shoot at other competitors. Beat's move, on the other hand, lets you ride his skateboard and tag other enemies with spray paint. Billy's move is probably the most hilarious, though, and he rides atop a giant egg, crushing all opponents that get in his way.

Skateboard? Why not his awesome roller blades that he always uses? :(

[The-Master-Board]

Chooch, on Aug 26 2009, 09:26 AM, said:

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When the power move is executed, Alex Kidd's vehicle turns into his trademarked helicopter, and you can shoot at other competitors. Beat's move, on the other hand, lets you ride his skateboard and tag other enemies with spray paint. Billy's move is probably the most hilarious, though, and he rides atop a giant egg, crushing all opponents that get in his way.

Skateboard? Why not his awesome roller blades that he always uses?

Because everyone knows skateboarders are waaaay cooler than roller bladers jeez! (curses the fact that he lost his old SSMB name Super_Sonic_sk8er)

I am assuimg it is just a typo, or a spoken version of a typo....a speak-o..? ha! Kinda like when they called super Sonic magic Sonic or something in another interview.

[Dat Blossum Bat Guy]

The-Master-Board, on Aug 26 2009, 06:43 AM, said:

Chooch, on Aug 26 2009, 09:26 AM, said:

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When the power move is executed, Alex Kidd's vehicle turns into his trademarked helicopter, and you can shoot at other competitors. Beat's move, on the other hand, lets you ride his skateboard and tag other enemies with spray paint. Billy's move is probably the most hilarious, though, and he rides atop a giant egg, crushing all opponents that get in his way.

Skateboard? Why not his awesome roller blades that he always uses?

Because everyone knows skateboarders are waaaay cooler than roller bladers jeez! (curses the fact that he lost his old SSMB name Super_Sonic_sk8er)

I am assuimg it is just a typo, or a spoken version of a typo....a speak-o..? ha! Kinda like when they called super Sonic magic Sonic or something in another interview.

This is just an instance of the interviewer not knowing or caring enough about the material they're reporting on to be completely accurate(like all the times we've seen "rings" = "coins" or "Tails the Squirrel" and "Knuckles the Mole"). The developers have put a lot of effort so far in properly representing each franchise and have even directly stated that they experimented using Beat on his roller blades instead of a vehicle. So chalk this one up to writer apathy until footage shows otherwise.

[Flyboy Fox]

Knuckles the Mole technically IS accurate... if you're refering to the OVA of course XD

[Yong]

Flyboy Fox, on Aug 26 2009, 06:23 AM, said:

Knuckles the Mole technically IS accurate... if you're refering to the OVA of course XD

Design wise Knuckles pretty much is a mole. His dreadlocks are the only thing differentiating him between a regular mole and a "spiny" mole.

This post has been edited by Yong: 26 August 2009 - 02:38 PM

[BlazeyBakeneko]

We might not see Blaze the cat, but we might still see Streets of Rage Blaze.

[Baking Blue Potatoe]

I just realised how perfect it would be to add in some CRAAAAZY TAXI characters.

I'll be pretty mad if they don't have at least one. (at least as an unlockable!)

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Also, I'd love to drive through Seaside Hill as Vectorman and see Ecco swim by...
And THE OOZE. Somewhere. (It'd be hilarious to see him drive a car, though. XD)
and Ristar? Pleeeeeease?

This post has been edited by Dashing Blue: 27 August 2009 - 01:06 AM

[BlazeyBakeneko]

Dashing Blue, on Aug 27 2009, 01:05 AM, said:

I just realised how perfect it would be to add in some CRAAAAZY TAXI characters.

I can't believe I didn't think of this before, a character from that game would fit in perfectly.^^

[dabbido]

Dunno if this is old (seems new to me) a Preview from the Official Nintendo Magazine. Of course I knew they would go with the "emulate mario kart" thingy, they cant understand there are so many kart games but oh well...anyways they seem to like it very much! thats good to hear you can read it here: http://www.officialn...le.php?id=11060 Also I havent seen this panoramic view of seaside hill track! Ill upload it in case u are too lazy to go and see.

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