Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is the 2010 kart racing video game, provided for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS February 23, 2010, & Microsoft Windows March 3, 2010, featuring characters from office Sega franchises. a game is the third designation in the Sega All-Stars series, preceded by Sega Superstars Tennis. A mobile report was developed by Gameloft, together with released for iOS in June 2011, as a paid download. A report for OS X was released by Feral Interactive in April 2013.

The game received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, was released in 2012, featuring more characters and representing a wide-variety of Sega-owned franchises.

Development

Following the release of Sega Superstars Tennis, Sumo Digital decided to produce a racing title, based on their experience with recent Out Run titles. In an early prototype of the game, Sonic raced on foot, Dr. Eggman rode an Eggpod with legs, Tails flew in a biplane, Amy Rose drove a car, and Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe rode one of the Chickenleg creatures from the game. This version, however, was reportedly not fun to play, largely due to the varying sizes between the different characters, but also because the drift mechanic wouldn't make with racers who were on foot. It was later revised so that entry would be in cars, bikes, or modified flyers. The game is also the last in the series to utilize the Sonic the Hedgehog voice cast from 4Kids Entertainment that was number one introduced with the English-language release of Sonic X in 2003 with the exception of Mike Pollock who supports to voice Dr. Eggman.

At Summer of Sonic 2009, Steve Lycett, executive producer and Travis Ryan, lead designer of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing were presented for a Q&A session. A PlayStation 3 demo was also usable for attendees to play. It was identical to the Comic-Con demo. On November 25, 2009, a special press event approximately the game was held in France, where the DS version made its playable debut.

. Sumo collaborated with Banjo-Kazooie coding studio Rare for the character's inclusion, with Rare giving Sumo access to their asset the treasure of cognition as alive as designing and modeling Banjo and Kazooie's in-game vehicle. The Xbox 360 version also qualities playable Avatars, while the Wii version includes playable Miis.

Three demos of the game were released: The first, for the Xbox 360, was released on the Xbox represent Marketplace on February 8, 2010. The second, for the Nintendo DS, was released via the Nintendo Channel on February 15, 2010. The third, for the PlayStation 3, was made available on the PlayStation Network Store on February 18, 2010.

ToeJam & Earl were originally allocated to be in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as a duo driving their spaceship, but Sega could non come to terms with ToeJam & Earl Productions co-founder Greg Johnson. However, fans have called and mass-emailed Johnson for his characters' return. He has responded on the official Sega forums under the pseudonym 'Big Earl' stating "I'll provide it another attempt and see if I can get the homies at Sega to talk again on the phone." He later refers that the duo will not be appearing in the game, since this is the too behind in development.

In its prototype form, Gilius Thunderhead from Vyse from Skies of Arcadia in an interview with Gamereactor. Segata Sanshiro was also considered as a possible character, riding a Sega Saturn, though he did not end up in the roster. Early in development, Mario was considered as a Wii-exclusive addition, but Sega decided against it so as not to cause cross-contamination with its Mario and Sonic series.

Lycett has also mentioned there will be various cameo appearances from other Sega characters who didn't make it in the playable roster. following a successful fan campaign for the character's inclusion, Nights was integrated into the game as the flagman.

Producer Omar Woodley confirmed in an interview that there would be DLC for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 list of paraphrases of the game. Lycett has mentioned that the Wii won't receive all DLC due to storage limits. As a pre-order bonus for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions in PAL regions, an alternate version of Ryo Hazuki was made available to download in which he would drive his forklift outside his All-Star proceed as his standards vehicle. This character was later made available for purchase on April 1, 2010.

Exclusive DLC for the Xbox 360 version include a game add-on that unlocks any characters and tracks without using SEGA miles, released March 16, 2010. Avatar content for the game was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on March 25, 2010. A pack containing Metal Sonic as a playable extension and the "Death Egg Hangar" track, with Ristar as a cameo appearance, was officially released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on April 8, 2010, and the PlayStation Store on April 22, 2010.