Team Sonic Racing - Rooftop Run gameplay, Metal Sonic + Eggman confirmed

[Camjo-Z]

SEGA recently had a showing of Team Sonic Racing at TGS, where they finally showed off some gameplay of the Market Street (aka Rooftop Run) track as well as more of Wisp Circuit. Unfortunately the person playing is godawful at the game, but you can at least get a good look at the course.



Dr. Eggman can be seen in the footage, and at an EGX panel earlier today, Metal Sonic was apparently shown to the audience.



This leaves one more character to be revealed. Could possibly be Egg Pawn, but seems unlikely that the final character reveal would be a generic enemy we saw in the very first game footage.

Bonus: a slide from the aformentioned EGX panel showing more details on how the character types work.

 

[alphacat]

can you turn off the dialogue

 

[SilverX]

Does this game still not have a release date? I am ready to buy after Metal Sonic revealed lol

 

[Silky]

Hella bummed that Nack gets shafted again for another racing game :/

 

[Plinko]

I don't know how to describe it. It looks so...sterile compared to the last one.

 

[John Rabbit]

I have to assume they're racing on a slower class/speed for demonstration purposes.

 

[Deleted member 42686]

What heck is going on on Silver car lol so much glowing it blinds me lmao

Also what speed the guy is playing? Seems pretty low.

 

[~Fake]

'Speed'
'- Well-balanced handling'
Makes sense...

Those trashtalking reminds me Mickey Speedway USA.

 

[Deleted member 3815]

Unfortunately the person playing is godawful at the game

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Well that's what happens when you chose to play as Silver. ;p

The game looks okay but yeah, it looks slow. I assumed that this was played on the lowest speed.

 

[Deleted member 34949]

Those trashtalkibg reminds me Mickey Speedway USA.

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Painfully underrated game, too.

 

[Aero]

How do you put Rooftop Run in your racing game and not have part of the track go around/up the clock tower?

 

[~Fake]

Painfully underrated game, too.

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Agree, besides that trashtalking spam, its a bloody good game.

 

[Jimnymebob]

Hella bummed that Nack gets shafted again for another racing game :/

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Has he actually been dismissed? He's perfect for the villain team.

 

[Kinsei]

That's the best track they've shown so far. I really hope they show a higher speed setting soon.

How do you put Rooftop Run in your racing game and not have part of the track go around/up the clock tower?

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Each theme has multiple tracks. I imagine that another Rooftop Run track will have the clock tower.

 

[MouldyK]

I'll cross-post what I told my friend after playing at EGX and Watching the Presentation as well.

Game isn't that bad from what I played. Team Play seems important like your team all gotta place high as all your points are tallied up. And your team has slipstreams and if you follow your teammates path, you get a boost. You can also hand your teammates weapons, which are stronger when they get it. So it's like "Should you use the boost or give your teammate one to get them 3 boosts?"

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Plus if your teammate drives past you after you get hit and slow down, you get your speed back.

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Plus all the team skills build up a Skill Meter and then you can use a "Team Ultimate", which is a speed boost where you also invincible. But because the game is all about teams, if you use the Ultimate at the same time as your team, then it more powerful. They say it is meant to aid communication, such as if I wanted to use my Ultimate, but you wanted to use it the same time as me, but you were going round a corner, so you could tell me to wait until you pass the corner and we could then activate together lol

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I hope it ain't a Rush-Job as it has some good ideas tucked away.

Hell, I'll throw in my worse part about the game.

Here are the points they hand out:

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And here is after me, Sonic and Knuckles finished 3rd, 4th and 5th:

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As you can see...if you place 1st and 2nd in a race (like Blaze and Silver) and a teammate finished last (like Vector)...you'll win anyway.

Now people might not mind this, but that is not fine for me as my team did well, dammit!


BONUS: This is what happens when I'm in 1st and Sonic is 12th on the last lap, so I just offer every item I get (all homing weirdly):

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That is what teamwork is!

 

[Camjo-Z]

I don't know how to describe it. It looks so...sterile compared to the last one.

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I feel like we've yet to see any footage that properly demonstrates good use of the various team mechanics that set this apart from your typical kart racer. Speaking of which, I'd also like to finally see some gameplay that's not on what I assume is the game's equivalent of 50cc.

Painfully underrated game, too.

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Seconded, one of my favorite kart racers!

Has he actually been dismissed? He's perfect for the villain team.

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Iizuka has stated that characters from Classic-era games like Mighty and Ray will not appear in Modern games, so his chances aren't good.

 

[Camjo-Z]

Small bump as last night they had one more Team Sonic Racing panel, after which Jun Senoue played a mini-concert featuring the music for the 3 currently revealed tracks: Wisp Circuit, Ice Mountain, and Market Street.



I thought it was a little weird that the theme for Wisp Circuit didn't seem to be a remix of any Planet Wisp tune, but it turns out there's a little snippet of Act 1's intro near the end of the song. Supposedly Ice Mountain's music is also a remix of Holoska from Unleashed, but I'm not hearing it. And of course, Market Street is just straight up Rooftop Run.

 

[Tizoc]

can you turn off the dialogue

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Set voices sfx to 0 in options i guess

 

[Meowmixez]

Hella bummed that Nack gets shafted again for another racing game :/

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I can only hope that they do DLC if the sales are good enough.

 

[SkyMasterson]

The game looks good, but I still can't get over that they went backwards and got rid of all the Sega characters and themed tracks.

and of course Metal Sonic will be in it, he was in the previous games.

Transformed was such an amazing kart racer. I was hoping they would have expanded upon that.

Limiting it to only Sonic characters is lame. Half of the roster is embarrassing enough to look at while you're racing, let alone play.

 

[Bishop89]

Still shocked this is Sonic racers and not sega racers.

Looks good though

 

[fiendcode]

I'm warming up to this game but I still hope some other Sonic Team reps can sneak in (Nights, Ristar, Carbuncle, etc).

 

[Jahranimo]

This game does seem to have potential, I just wished they showed the faster speeds for races already. Maybe they'll do so in one of their Sonic streams from the US office?

I'm guessing the last character will be Infinite or the new bad guy from the story.

 

[Spinluck]

A lot of these mechanics seem quite unique.

I just don't have faith that the quality will be there.

 

[WillyFive]

Why do the rings look so terrible? How has development gone so far and the rings still look like that? Rooftop Run also looks like the most boring possible adaptation they could have tried to do. Perplexing. It's like they made a generic track and then tried to make a Rooftop Run skybox around it.

 

[KillstealWolf]

I still wanna see A Class/S Class speed levels. The Transformed Demos at least let you chose between C/B/A so selecting A gave you a good sense of speed. Being stuck in C just makes it feel slow.

 

[RadiantDan]

That's Rooftop Run...? Looks more like Planet Wisp than anything.

 

[Phil32]

That's Rooftop Run...? Looks more like Planet Wisp than anything.

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The second race is the Rooftop Run one. There's two races shown.

 

[TheOGB]

A few observations and thoughts:
- Rooftop Run track looks alright
- show off some faster speeds you cowards
- the music playing during the score tally at the very end is definitely a Jun Senoue remix of Sonic Mania's Competition Results. That's exciting to me
- mostly unrelated but I'm curious about the implications of Rooftop Run being an iconic Modern Sonic stage in a post-"Sonic's World" world. Are they gonna keep acting like humans don't exist on "Sonic's World" despite pulling from real-world locations from the game with the best portrayal of humans in Sonic?

 

[Joltik]

I can only hope that they do DLC if the sales are good enough.

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Even if they do DLC, Sega's probably not going to allow classic characters mixing with the modern, unless it's classic versions of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.

 

[Yukinari]

Its kinda impressive that despite Transformed having to get nascar to pay for half its budget that it still looks better than this game.

Why cant this series go all out with sega fanservice AND have a budget? All 3 games feel made on the down low in various aspects.

 

[Waddle Dee]

Good lord, can we please get gameplay footage from someone competent at kart racers!? It's one of the simplest genres around and yet no one decent at it has been recorded playing this game.

 

[Camjo-Z]

Why do the rings look so terrible? How has development gone so far and the rings still look like that? Rooftop Run also looks like the most boring possible adaptation they could have tried to do. Perplexing. It's like they made a generic track and then tried to make a Rooftop Run skybox around it.

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Worth mentioning that this game takes the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing route of having multiple tracks based on the same theme. There are 21 total tracks across 7 Zones, so Market Street is just one of 3 courses based on Rooftop Run. A pre-rendered scene in one of the trailers shows that another course takes place on a floating glass road in the skies above Spagonia.

- the music playing during the score tally at the very end is definitely a Jun Senoue remix of Sonic Mania's Competition Results. That's exciting to me

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Oh that's awesome, I thought it sounded a little like the Mania theme.

 

[Waddle Dee]

Worth mentioning that this game takes the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing route of having multiple tracks based on the same theme. There are 21 total tracks across 7 Zones, so Market Street is just one of 3 courses based on Rooftop Run. A pre-rendered scene in one of the trailers shows that another course takes place on a floating glass road in the skies above Spagonia.





Oh that's awesome, I thought it sounded a little like the Mania theme.

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That really sucks. There's no other franchise with as many eye-popping environments as Sonic and to only have 7 different locales is a complete waste.

 

[Biestmann]

A lot of these mechanics seem quite unique.

I just don't have faith that the quality will be there.

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My thoughts exactly.

 

[IronicSonic]

This game needs a high level gameplay video like this that was uploaded for Sega itself as marketing material

 

[Camjo-Z]

That really sucks. There's no other franchise with as many eye-popping environments as Sonic and to only have 7 different locales is a complete waste.

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It is what it is. This game obviously has a much lower budget than Transformed but they're making the most of it. That being said, if they waste a zone on Seaside Hill I will riot.

 

[Kinsei]

It is what it is. This game obviously has a much lower budget than Transformed but they're making the most of it. That being said, if they waste a zone on Seaside Hill I will riot.

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Same. If they pick a Heroes stage for the game it should really be something that's underused like Mystic Mansion/Hang Castle.

 

[WillyFive]

It is what it is. This game obviously has a much lower budget than Transformed but they're making the most of it. That being said, if they waste a zone on Seaside Hill I will riot.

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It's so odd that this has a low budget, when Transformed was a massive hit, even on PC (million seller!).

 

[Jahranimo]

Ah dang, they are going that older route of multiple tracks based on the same zone? Eh...well maybe we could get tracks with different tropes like Billy Hatcher in Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing lol.

 

[Sonicfan059]

The game looks good, but I still can't get over that they went backwards and got rid of all the Sega characters and themed tracks.

and of course Metal Sonic will be in it, he was in the previous games.

Transformed was such an amazing kart racer. I was hoping they would have expanded upon that.

Limiting it to only Sonic characters is lame. Half of the roster is embarrassing enough to look at while you're racing, let alone play.

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How are the characters any worse than the other Sega ones? As far as mascots go the characters are pretty run of the mill, could be in any Pixar movie and no one would bat an eye(of course that would also include better writing and voice acting).

 

[Tailzo]

I see that the game has videos uploaded in 1080p 60fps. Has any of the versions been confirmed to be 60 fps? Also, has anyone played the Switch version?

 

[Meowmixez]

Even if they do DLC, Sega's probably not going to allow classic characters mixing with the modern, unless it's classic versions of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.

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Nack the Weasel and the Sonic Mania characters would be excellent additions.

 

[SixelAlexiS]

This is like 1000 times worse then Transformed... I'm so mad and sad :'(

 

[Camjo-Z]

Nack the Weasel and the Sonic Mania characters would be excellent additions.

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The ultimate DLC packs:

Team Mania: Classic Sonic + Mighty + Ray
Team Hooligan: Fang/Nack + Bark + Bean
Team Rogues: Jet + Wave + Storm

they would be amazing and sell very well, which is how you know they won't do it

 

[FreeMufasa]

Forgot rooftop run has the GOAT music

 

[Symphony]

Stop bringing back Rooftop Run please, that stage is so played out by now and Unleashed has plenty of beautiful environments to choose from.

 

[Angst]

I miss the transforming :/

 

[Miggy]

Unleased has a lot more interesting stages than freaking Rooftop Run... Like Dragon Road for example.

 

[Village]

Nack the Weasel and the Sonic Mania characters would be excellent additions.

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Sega don't like classic characters mixing

you will get classic sonic at most