Sonic Raiders (PS2)

Sonic Riders is a racing game for the Playstation 2 developed by Sega. In his quest to become more like the loveable mascot Mario Sonic has decided to have his own racing game! The story of the game is a really simple one, Dr Eggman is holding a racing tournament with the prize being the chaos emeralds, Sonic and friends all enter the tournament in the hope to win all the chaos emeralds! Its paper thin stuff but it is more story than any of the Mario Kart titles offered! In a Sonic game you might imagine that the characters just run and super speedy Sonic would dominate every race but sadly no, they all ride on hover boards, hover skates and air ...  Read the complete review

This was a pretty poor racing game on the PS2, the controls were so unresponsive at one point and then super sensitive at other times it just descended into a frustrating game playing experience. This is Sonic and his friends transferring over to the racing format from a platform past similar to Mario attempt at karting however in this case the racing takes place on hoover craft style machines. Sonic and his compatriots are up against a team of rogues on racers known as the Babylon Rogues and the two teams compete in a series of races. The action is pretty fast paced, in fact a times it is too fast and you stuggle valiantly to have any sort of ...  Read the complete review

Ignore the Dooyoo typo when they set up this category as this game is actually Sonic Riders and not Raiders if you do not believe me read the title in the picture. Just as Mario did in the past so this sees Sonic moving into the racing format from its traditional platform play format. Instead of racing around in funky cars you get to race in funky hovercrafts which is a nice twist but does not really change the game play in any great way. Sonic is a fast paced game whatever the format and the same applies to this racing format however at times it is just too fast and ends up a bit frustrating as you struggle to retain control of your ...  Read the complete review