Sonic R
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 Sonic Team Traveller’s Tales
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Sega
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| Senior Developer |
Yuji Naka Takashi Iizuka Youji Ishii Tetsuo Shinyu Jon Burton |
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Richard Jacques Naofumi Hataya |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Sega Saturn : November 18, 1997 November 21, 1997 December 4, 1997 Windows : November 11, 1998 November 15, 1998 December 11, 1998  |
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| platform | Sega Saturn , Windows , Nintendo GameCube , PlayStation 2 | ||
| genre | Racing game | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| language | English | ||
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Sonic R is a racing game developed by Sonic Team and Traveller's Tales and first published by Sega in North America on November 18, 1997 for the Sega Saturn . You control running characters like a vehicle on the racetrack.
action
The evil scientist Dr. Robotnik has called for a race for the fastest runners. Sonic and Tails spot a billboard, but Sonic isn't interested until he reads that Dr. Robotnik also takes part. Little did they know that Dr. Robotnik is the host and plans to take out Sonic and take the Chaos Emeralds from him. Knuckles also takes part because he doesn't want to be inferior to Sonic in any way, similar to Amy , who wants to impress her crush Sonic.
Gameplay
In Sonic R , at the beginning of the game, the player takes control of the blue hedgehog Sonic, the two-tailed fox Tails, the last Echidna Knuckles or the hedgehog Amy Rose. There are races in which five characters run against each other on the racetrack. The total of five racetracks have loops, shortcuts and alternative paths, and the weather changes so that it can rain, for example. The rings distributed over the racetracks can be collected so that doors open on the track, hide the Chaos Emeralds, which in turn represent the other characters Dr. Unlock Robotnik, Metal Sonic, Egg Robo, Tails Doll, Metal Knuckles and Super Sonic.
The game consists of five race tracks ( Resort Island , Radical City , Regal Ruin , Reactive Factory and Radiant Emerald ). Each route has its own theme and appearance. In addition to the Grand Prix mode, you can run alone or with computer opponents across the tracks in the time attack mode to improve your personal best, and under Competitive two players can compete against each other (on the GameCube version of the Sonic Gems Collection there are up to up to four players possible).
development
After the completion of Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island , plans began for a Sonic racing game for the Sega Saturn, on which the Sonic Team and Traveller's Tales continued to work together, but the latter asked for more freedom to develop. Development began in February 1997 and Traveller's Tales used an early version of a Formula 1 racing game they had designed and converted it into the Sonic franchise, which initially carried the development title Sonic Tourist Trophy, or Sonic TT for short . Sega publicly revealed that Phase Two of Project Sonic (after Sonic Jam as the first phase) is in development.
The Sonic team took care of the track design, while Traveller's Tales programmed the game. At the Sonic team there was a dispute between the producers Yūji Naka and Kats Sato, whereupon Sato left and the name was removed from the credits. The small size of only five racetracks is said to have been a result of the tight schedule and technical problems. An early version of the game, now called Sonic R , was presented at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo . There the first song of the game Super Sonic Racing was presented for the first time. Like the following songs in the game, it was sung by singer Teresa Jane Davis.
New releases and successors
Sonic R first appeared in 1997 for the Sega Saturn, then in the following year 1998 for Windows and was included in the Sonic Gems Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 . The title has no direct successor, especially since in future Sonic racing games such as Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) the characters use vehicles instead of running. Songs from Sonic R have been in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008), Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010), Sonic Generations (2011), Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018 ) and Team Sonic Racing (2019) included again. On November 7, 2019, Sega released a newly recorded remix of the Sonic R song "Can You Feel the Sunshine" by Tee and Mariana Lopes as well as Jun Senoue and the original singer Teresa Jane Davis on the Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel .
reception
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Sonic R received mixed ratings. The stable frame rate, graphics, sound and track design were perceived positively, while the scope, controls and gameplay were criticized.
The Sega Saturn version sold a total of 80,000 times worldwide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonic R Special Remix - "Can You Feel the Sunshine". Accessed March 31, 2020 .
- ^ Sonic R for Saturn - GameRankings . GameRankings. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ^ EGM Staff: Sonic R Review . In: Electronic Gaming Monthly . 10, No. 103, February 1998.
- ↑ Dan Electric: Pro Review: Sonic R . In: International Data Group (Ed.): GamePro . 10, No. 103, February 1998, ISSN 1042-8658 . Retrieved August 25, 2016.
- ^ Ryan MacDonald: Sonic R Review for Saturn . December 22, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ Andy McNamara: Everybody's Super Sonic Racing Archived from the original on September 21, 1999. In: Game Informer . January 1998. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ^ Head Spin . In: Imagine Media (ed.): Next Generation . 4, No. 38, February 1998.
- ↑ Lee Nutter: Sonic R Review . In: EMAP (ed.): Sega Saturn Magazine . 3, No. 26, December 1997, ISSN 1360-9424 , pp. 50-53. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
- ↑ Sonic R . In: Future Publishing (Ed.): Computer and Video Games . No. 193, September, ISSN 0261-3697 , pp. 72-76. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
- ↑ https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic