All of these actions help the team but also build a special meter that once filled allows you to execute a super move that will massively boost your racing prospects. There's a team aspect here too, as if you pick up one that's no use to you a single button press can give your team mates the chance to take it off your hands. The closer you pass, the bigger the boost.īeing a fun and light-hearted kart racer there are also a range of items for mid-race shenanigans. If an ally in front of you is bashed off the road or hit by an item that slows them down, you can drive past them in a close call to execute a Skim Boost, which'll get them back up to speed. The slingshot, for instance, is a move where you drive in the slipstream of a teammate (which is helpfully highlighted) for a period until you get a bonus boost that sends you flying past them and onward up the track. Instead of switching characters to progress or solve puzzles, the team aspect of the game is instead focused on helping each other with various team cooperation abilities.
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You pick one and the others are AI controlled - or you can hand off control to other players for full local co-operative play in pretty much every available mode. Unlike Sonic Heroes you're not switching between characters, however.
In the game's most iconic team these roles fall to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles respectively, for instance. Like Sonic Heroes, each team essentially contains three characters that slot into archetypal 'classes' with obvious benefits - Speed, Technique and Power. I'm actually quite surprised that this game didn't end up being called Sonic Heroes Racing, as the three-strong character team concept actually has a fair amount in common with the 2003 team-based Sonic platformer. Just coming first yourself isn't always enough. To encourage teamwork there's a variety of systems and mechanics built around interacting with and helping your team mates - so sometimes it's actually better to pull back off the top of the podium in order to help a team mate that's lagging behind.
Every race sees you as part of a team of three - and your team's overall placement at the end will be determined by the individual positions of all three racers.
In Team Sonic Racing, your aim is still to place at the top of the podium in a sense - but as a team rather than as an individual. At the heart of Sumo Digital and Sega's latest kart racing effort is an interesting concept: what if coming first wasn't the ultimate goal?
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