The premise overdue Sonic Riders is commotion to be utterly impenetrable to anyone but the most ardent Sonic fans. There are times when you ' ll find yourself enjoying how blazingly fast the game can go and other times when you ' ll be frustrated beyond belief by the very same thing. Unfortunately, Sonic Riders isn ' t much better than any of Sega ' s previous attempts to make Sonic a racing hero, simply because it can ' t quite keep its diverse and chaotic racing mechanics together in one cohesive package.
Instead, Riders gives Sonic and pals their very own Back to the Future II - style hoverboards, which they can use to dart and dash around wacky tracks of varying levels of difficulty. Sonic Riders is the latest attempt to get Sonic back on the race track, though this one eschews the typical kart - and foot - racing brands of racing usually found in a racer starring popular platformer heroes. Despite the fact that Sonic ' s already - speedy nature might seem like a perfect fit for a racing game of some sort, the results of these attempts have been disappointing thus far.
Like most popular platformer franchises, the Sonic series has dabbled in the racing genre in the past with games like Sonic R for the Saturn.
