New worlds await within the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog racing sport – Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – introducing a singular gameplay mechanic transporting the enduring characters from the Sonic and Sega universes into new dimensions. The latest entry to the Sonic Racing collection is a Sonic sport, driving sport, and motion sport all-in-one that may provide an thrilling racing expertise throughout a number of modes, worlds, and extra!
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 quickly, and at present, Sega is sharing particulars on what gamers can count on to see within the sport.
Journey Rings
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds introduces Journey Rings, a new gameplay mechanic making every race really feel shocking and contemporary. Journey Rings deliver dramatic adjustments to races, transporting gamers from one world to a totally new location. The lead racer will get to decide on the CrossWorld that each one gamers shall be transported to on the second lap, permitting the environments to come back alive with varied monitor adjustments. Every CrossWorld provides a theme park-like expertise with surprises round each flip, together with massive monsters, participating obstacles, and tracks crammed with lovely surroundings.
Race throughout land, sea, and air
One other spotlight of the sport is its dynamic tracks, which draw inspiration from previous Sonic Racing titles similar to Sonic & All-Stars Racing Reworked and provide a “transformative” racing expertise like no different. With every lap, the monitor undergoes dramatic adjustments and involves life, shifting between land, sea, and air terrains. The ever-evolving monitor will remember to problem gamers to adapt their racing methods for an exhilarating gameplay expertise to interact with the monitor past reaching the end line.
Devices
We’ve elevated the Sonic Racing expertise with an RPG-like Gadget function. Previous to the race, racers will be capable to equip and mix Devices that give completely different perks to shake up the race for extra distinctive methods to play.
Not sufficient gadgets? Seeking to get some additional enhance? There’s a Gadget for these and extra.
Highly effective Devices require extra Gadget slots, so be sure you’re optimizing your assortment and growing your stock as you play by the sport. As you progress, the extra slots, and even stronger Devices you’ll unlock to make the sport that rather more thrilling. Choosing the right mixture of Devices in your gameplay model simply is perhaps the sting it is advisable to come out in first place each time.
Automobile customization
This sport additionally brings essentially the most intensive automobile customization within the collection to date. For the primary time ever in a Sonic Racing sport, characters aren’t tied to particular autos and might race in all types of autos. Characters and autos all have a singular set of parameters like velocity, acceleration, and dealing with, so gamers can attempt completely different mixtures to finest go well with their racing model. As well as, gamers can combine and match components from completely different autos to create their very own customized automobile! And if that wasn’t sufficient, gamers can select colours, decals, and textures for nearly each facet of the automobile, together with the inside. Now we have little doubt racers will take pleasure in tinkering within the storage to create a one-of-a-kind automobile that not solely seems improbable however performs amazingly on the monitor.
Excessive Gear
A lot of you seen the easter egg within the teaser from final December, however it’s official: Excessive Gear is again! Having first appeared in Sonic Riders, the Excessive Gear flying hoverboards provide a boost-based racing model in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. We hope gamers are excited to see this long-time fan favourite lastly return in a Sonic Racing sport.
“In Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, not solely did we wish to introduce the modern thought of racing by completely different worlds as you warp by the Journey Rings, however we additionally wished anybody who had enjoyable enjoying our earlier Sonic Racing video games to actually take pleasure in this title, so we took loads of components from these previous video games and integrated them. We included the Excessive Gear from the Sonic Riders collection in addition to the Remodel function from the All-Stars Racing collection, making it a terrific fruits of all of the Sonic Racing collection video games up to now. I hope everybody actually enjoys Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.”
- Takashi Iizuka, Inventive Officer, Sonic Staff
Closed Community Check
King Dodonpa is placing the ending touches on the competitors now, however PS5 gamers can join the Closed Community Check for an opportunity to expertise the racetrack sooner! Within the CNT, gamers can expertise a little bit of every thing we talked about above (apart from the Excessive Gear – sorry, we’re saving that one for later!) and compete in opposition to gamers around the globe. We hope you’re excited to hit the monitor with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds quickly. Make sure you wishlist Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on PlayStation Retailer to maintain it in your radar!