Воздух тратится при полёте, а также на специальные действия. Ускорение временно переводит в режим повышенной скорости, в котором можно атаковать других гонщиков. Экстренные повороты (с дрифтом) и торможение позволяют вписываться в крутые извивы трассы. Торнадо-ловушка сбивает преследователей сидящих на хвосте.

Воздух восстанавливают: контейнеры с воздухом, трюки во время прыжков с трамплинов, использование классовой способности, трюки в области турбулентности, вращение джойстика (нажатие стрелок) во время использования транспортёра. Воздух полностью восстанавливается при посещении заправки и наборе уровня.

Если воздух кончается, персонаж дальше бежит сам. Это медленнее, чем езда, а кроме того нельзя прыгать с большинства трамплинов.

Прыжки.

Чтобы прыгнуть самому в начале надо зажать кнопку прыжка. Скорость начнёт падать, и одновременно начнёт накапливаться «прыжковый» заряд. Если отпустить кнопку на середине трассы, то герой подпрыгнет не высоко (но так можно запрыгнуть на рельс). Если отпустить кнопку на одном из трамплинов, то можно взлететь очень высоко (особенно если одновременно нажать «назад») и далеко (если нажать «вперёд»). Если во время такого затяжного прыжка нажимать стрелки, персонаж начнёт вращаться. Чем больше сальто вы сделаете, тем больше воздуха получите (при условии, что удачно приземлитесь).

Трамплины.

Трамплинов в игре три типа. Основные — гонщики прыгают с них автоматически, даже если нет воздуха в баке (но с воздухом можно прыгнуть дальше). Не основные — с них можно прыгнуть только с воздухом, если отпустить кнопку прыжка точно на трамплине (что не просто, так как многие из них явно не показаны). Полукруглые секции — расположены по бокам участков трасс, прыжок с них автоматический.

Персонажи.

Персонажи бывают трёх классов: скоростные могут запрыгивать на рельсы и скользить по ним, летающие могут прыгать с трамплинов с надписью FLY и летать сквозь воздушные кольца (только при наличии воздуха), силовые могут разрушать некоторые объекты на трассе.

Турбулентность.

За быстро едущим гонщиком часто образуется турбулентный след, в который можно попасть. Внутри турбулентности воздух перестаёт тратиться. Если подъехать к краю турбулентности, ваш гонщик подпрыгнет и при удачном приземлении получит дополнительный воздух.

При наборе 30 и 60 колец персонаж повышает уровень. У него увеличивается максимальная скорость (в режиме ускорения тоже) и объём воздушного бака, а также усиливается атака. Подвергшийся атаке персонаж лишается колец и, как следствие, уровня.

Игровых персонажей всего шестнадцать. Герои истории (Соник, Тейлз, Наклз, Эми, Джет, Шторм, Вэйв) доступны с самого начала. Большинство остальных (а именно Эггмэн, Руж, Шэдоу, Крим) разблокируются по мере прохождения. Трое персонажей из других игр Сеги (Найтс, Улала, Ай-Ай) становятся доступны после прохождения всех миссий. И наконец два вида роботов (которые в Истории служат массовкой) открываются лишь после многих часов игры.

Снаряжение делится на несколько классов: доски (на них летают стоя), мотоциклы (на них летают сидя) и коньки(обувь). Пятнадцать экземпляров закреплены за отдельными персонажами и ещё 39 аппаратов предназначены для коллективного пользования (с некоторыми ограничениями). Большинство гоночных средств различается статистикой (повышенная скорость, пониженный расход воздуха, более вместительный бак и так далее), но некоторые дают дополнительные способности (например на ковре-самолёте могут летать и не летающие персонажи). Среди экзотики есть даже Изумруд Хаоса, который потребляет кольца вместо воздуха. Увы, большая часть не стоит потраченных на них усилий (в том числе и Изумруд). Ради смеха конечно можно погонять на облаке или на метле (которая почему-то попала в категорию досок), но в гонке от них толку мало.

Сами трассы выполнены в целом не плохо — есть много пространства для манёвра, альтернативные секции, на которые можно попасть разбив, перелетев или проехав на рельсе одно из препятствий. В общем можно побить соперников и ловкостью и хитростью. Вот только самих трасс, к сожалению, мало, да ещё и некоторые сильно похожи. Меньше двух десятков трасс, всего два гран-при и не слишком много возможностей для настройки правил отнюдь не продлевают интерес к игре. А ещё многие трассы не сбалансированы — один из классов часто имеет преимущество перед другими. В гран-при одни этапы компенсируют другие, но в одиночной гонке от этого не скрыться.

Ну и конечно очень серьёзным недостатком ПК версии является отсутствие игры по сети. Да и режим разделённого экрана тоже не идеален — таймер вверху экрана, например, загораживает часть обзора.

Графика в игре весьма приятная. Конечно по сегодняшним меркам — ничего особенного, но на скорости в 200+ км/ч на детали смотреть особо некогда. Спецэффекты и анимация также не подкачали. Стиль вообще говоря довольно мультяшный (а вы чего ожидали), что особенно хорошо видно, когда очередной попавший под раздачу гонщик остаётся лежать в виде плоской картинки.

Звук тоже на уровне Sonic Team. Музыка соответствует духу гонки. Реплики комментатора, как правило, к месту. Ну, а сами персонажи в гонке почти не говорят. Лишь кричат «Прочь с дороги» и тому подобное.

Несмотря на все недостатки, однако, игра скорее удалась, чем наоборот. Необычная механика и интересные (пусть и немногочисленные) задания позволят скоротать несколько вечеров, да и потом игра сможет стать неплохим средством развлечься в компании друзей. Жаль только, ни на что большее игра не претендует.

Хотелось бы сказать, что Sonic Riders это лишь первая игра серии и в будущем разработчики смогут довести до ума свои идеи, отполировать геймплей, расщедриться на дополнительный контент или даже нормальную сюжетную компанию. Увы. Zero Gravity и Free Riders уже вышли и Sonic Team снова и снова наступила на те же грабли.

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Sonic Riders

Sonic Riders
Developer(s)	Sonic Team Now Production
Publisher(s)	Sega
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog
Release Date(s)	February 23, 2006 February 21, 2006 March 17, 2006 March 23, 2006
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows

Sonic Riders (ソニックライダーズ Sonikku Raidāzu?) is a hoverboard-racing video game spin-off produced by Sega and developed by their second-party, United Game Artists for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. It is the fourth racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, preceded by Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic R, and the first entry in the Sonic Riders series. This time, the characters ride on hoverboards called «Extreme Gear».

Sonic Riders was revealed by Famitsu on 7 September 2005 prior to 2005’s Tokyo Game Show. The game was released to start off the 15th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. This game introduces five new playable characters, the Babylon Rogues and the E-10000 series. A sequel to Sonic Riders, entitled as Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, has been released on the Wii and PlayStation 2 systems. A second sequel, entitled Sonic Free Riders, was released on 4 November 2010 for the Xbox 360’s Kinect peripheral.

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Story [ ]

One night, Jet, who was observing a special cube in his airship, is suddenly interrupted by Storm who bursts into Jet’s office. As Wave follows in, the three Rogues gaze upon the cube hoping to discover a hidden treasure in their ancestral home: Babylon Garden. Wave then informs Jet that a person named Dr. Eggman has arrived on their ship and would like to meet with him. Eggman appears and notices that Jet is holding the key he was looking for. Eggman whispers to Jet about the fact that he needs the seven Chaos Emeralds in order to utilize the cube to summon Babylon Garden and also mentions about Sonic the Hedgehog, a comparable speedy opponent to Jet, who might have the emeralds. Jet replies that in air with his Extreme Gear, Sonic is no match.

In Future City, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are searching for a lost Chaos Emerald. As Tails finally detects it on his radar, the Babylon Rogues suddenly crash from a glass window with the Chaos Emerald they were looking for. Tails then exclaims that the signal was coming from them. Sonic attempts to pursue them, but is outmatched on this new technology. The three mysterious characters fly away with the Chaos Emerald in town.

Inside a factory, Knuckles and Storm bump into each other and starts to fight each other, smashing one of Eggman’s robots in the process. They decide to settle their dispute in a race. When Knuckles beats Storm, he returns to the airship telling Jet of his loss, claiming that Knuckles cheated with some sort of special type of Extreme Gear. Wave hears this news and scowls at Storm for losing on her Gear and that his skills just «suck» before Jet tells them to stop arguing. Jet suspects that Eggman is hiding and assigns Storm to look for any suspicious clues in Eggman’s base. While waiting for Storm, Jet relaxes only for Wave to lecture him of his responsibilities. Not interested in Wave’s lecture, Jet sees Sonic and decides to sneak away from Wave and meet up with the hedgehog. Jet still boasts his superiority on Extreme Gear compared to Sonic.

Storm finally meets up with Jet and Wave with an entry of Eggman’s diary which explained about the hidden treasure of Babylon Garden and it was partially revealed that the treasure was some sort of advanced technology which Jet lost his interest into discovering the treasure, not having any interest in advanced technology but Wave convinced him that the doctor’s interest in the technology could hold some potential value. Jet was then determined to resume on their journey to find the treasure and returned to the tournament just in time for his finals race against Sonic. Jet taunted that Sonic made to the finals via sheer luck and not his «skills» but Sonic was determined not to lose. Near the end of the race, Jet was mad and surprised that he was falling behind Sonic but Wave detonated the bomb she implanted on the Gear earlier, allowing Jet to win.

Using the Chaos Emeralds to empower the cube, he reveals Babylon Garden, the ancient ruins of his ancestors’ settlement. Eggman quickly steals the key in order to obtain the treasure for himself and flies off with the Rogues, Sonic and his friends in pursuit. Although Sonic is able to stop Eggman and settle his score with Jet, the adventure continues when the Babylon Rogues unleash an ancient spirit from Babylon Garden, the Babylon Guardian. Once the Guardian is defeated, the true treasure of Babylon is revealed, surprising everyone, especially Eggman. The Babylon Rouges and Sonic’s group part ways, but not before Jet vows to return and face Sonic again.

Gameplay [ ]

The game is played in its entirety using hover boards, which function largely like skateboards. Players must race seven other competitors on a total of 16 tracks, 9 of which must be unlocked through progress in the story mode, and two of which must be unlocked by winning Gold in each World Grand Prix (5 tracks per Grand Prix). Each individual character has different statistics, altering their performance slightly in races.

A key component of the game is the Air Tank, displayed in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Air serves as fuel for Extreme Gear and is depleted gradually as the race goes on and by certain maneuvers. These include cornering, allowing the player to round sharp turns with ease and building tension before a jump, which involves using Air to propel the player higher off of ramps. If a player runs out of Air, their character will start running, putting them at several disadvantages; they can’t boost, attack, corner easily or use charged jumps. There’s also the option to retire from the race if the player runs out of Air. After going off ramps, players can perform various Air Tricks, which refill the Air gauge according to their rating.

In the Story Mode, players take part in consecutive races, one after the other, based on the storyline, in order to defeat the Babylon Rogues or the Heroes and win the Grand Prix.

Sonic Riders: Unlimited

Sonic Rider: Unlimited [ソニックライダーズ：無制限 Sonikkuraidāzu: Museigen] or SRU or nicknamed Sonic Riders 4 is the fourth and final installment of the Sonic Riders series taking place after the event’s in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. This game is released for the Xbox One X Series, PlayStation 5, PC, and for the Nintendo Switch.

This game will focus on a new team of heroes along with Sonic’s and Jet’s team finding a new enemy known as the «Agent’s of Justice» among the stars where the Babylon Garden has left. Now they band teams must work together in order to defeat this great enemy.

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Intro Sequence

(Japanese Version) The intro begins with the start of the bongo drum with its disco-like guitar play with a fast rhythm beat showing the dark vastness of space. Until Sonic and friends along with Jet and his friends speed off into Mobius as the English game title appears with the Japanese title underneath it.

(English Version) The intro begins with the start off with an electric guitar riffing with a fast drum and bass beat rhythm beat showing the dark vastness of space. Until Sonic and friends along with Jet and his friends speed off into Mobius as the English game title appears (Without the Japanese title)

(Both Versions) The next scene begins with singing by Flow/Pendulum showing off Sonic’s team in grass terrain looking into the sunset as goes into Jet’s team looking over the city. Jet looks down at Sonic, smirks at him as they all jumped onto their boards and ride their way down the tall building to race Sonic and his friends like always whenever they cross paths. They race along with the city until eight unknown figures appear from space and brought laser beam rain onto them interrupting their race. Just as they were about to attack a new team with an Echidna, Raven and a Triceratops along with Blaze the Cat intervenes in the battle as he draws his blaster on them and opens fire on them making them retreat.

The Echidna looks at both Sonic, Jet and their friends as he offers his hand to them. Sonic takes the handshake aligning with him. The camera shot up into space with other planets nearby ending the intro with the song’s end.

Sonic Riders: Unlimited Japanese Cover

Two months after the incident from MeteorTech with the Babylon Garden. Dr. Eggman arranges a meeting with the «Agent’s of Justice» in hoping of getting revenge on Sonic and Jet’s teams for fouling his Eggman land plans. He makes an arrangement that he would help find Jet in trade for their weapons but once he gave them their location. The Agents of Justice betrays him on giving the location of Jet’s team and destroys his Headquarters seeing him as a criminal. They thought of leaving him for dead but survived the destruction. Since then The Agent’s of Justice have begun their search on Mobius finding traces of the Babylon Garden and their activities.

Three years have passed since the last seen of Babylon Garden and its departure. Since the Sonic Team and Jet’s Team made their separate ways three years ago Jet and his Rogues haven’t been seen since then. Until attacks have begun rampaging on Mobius largest cities around the world including Monopole City, not even the G.U.N. could stop them. (First Race of the game) The Sonic Team must race over to them confront the enemy destroying the city nearby Megalo Station only to see a mysterious male Echidna figure highly advanced body armor suit similar to the Nocturnus Technology along with a female Raven and male Triceratops. They ask Sonic where was Jet and his friends but they didn’t know their whereabouts till Jet and his friends came along to find them here.

Just as the Agent was about to attack them a black & green male Echidna, black female Cyborg Raven, and a dark green Triceratops and stopped them for the time being. He introduces himself and to his team called Cosmos as Acer the Echidna; the leader, Jenny the Cyborg Raven; The Mechanical and Engineer & Acer’s love interest and lastly the muscle; Jexon «Genus» Triceratops and explains who was attacking the city. Jet joins in to see what was all of the commotions and explains why they were attacking. Acer explains that the agents of justice are a high organization that seeks to protect the galaxy and beyond and he was one of them. But he didn’t know their methods of seeking justice were to destroy worlds or as they call it «cleansing» worlds and they find the Babylonian Race to be criminals that includes Jet, Wave, and Storm.

He asks for their help if they want to help save Mobius and the rest of the galaxy. Sonic and his friends accept the offer to save the world and the galaxy but Jet had no choice to join them due to them being targeted. Until at the last minute Dr. Eggman approaches them wanting to help them after everything he has caused and Acer accepts him.

After they have accepted his offer Acer’s ship was a crew size, stealth fighter, and corvette class ship as it appears from its cloak and brings them inside. Of course, without them knowing Amy sneaks onto the ship following them and later on joins Sonic’s team. He then introduces the rest of his crew on the ship from other Mobian established worlds. Lisa «Red» Fox; the ship’s pilot, Sally Acorn; The Xtreme Gear Simulation trainer (tutorial help), Blaze the Cat; Side mission informer, Aurora the She-Wolf; Xtreme Gear vendor and specialist (Sells and buys Xtreme Gear), Empress Lila Viper; Power/Attack upgrade Vendor, Bison; Strength Vendor, Lika Griffin; Speed Vendor, Janica Battie; Flight Vendor and Metal Henson the Hedgehog as an informer for updates. (SEGA about news, updates and upcoming dlcs)

Acer says that agents of justice have landed on nine planets that establish nine bases each for the planet. Each planet has established their own bases on the planets First 1 Mobius; their homeworld, 2 Moirilia; the jungle planet ruled by Empress Lila,3 Vopleania; the fire, volcanic but livable planet inhabited by the Inferno species, 4 Crora-SQD; the militarized planet filled with Mobian’s Planetary Defense that has been taken control, 5 Blion; the freezing tundra planet they’ll use to send Mobians into the Ice Age, 6 Lourus; The beautiful farm grassland inhabited by peaceful Bison Cow species, 7 Lapiazlu; An Aquatic based world to be used for steam-powered machines, 8 Leurilia; A planet filled with a void of energy used to power Crora and Mobius and finally 9 Lashillon; The Air Based planet to change and use to make Toxic gases. The teams must work together to stop the agents of justice before they destroy the Mobian Galaxy until they reach the final base which is an Eggman Space Station taking them into space.

The team’s race and fight their way through the Eggman Station until they’ve reached the main head of the station. (Semi-Final Race) Acer, Sonic, and Jet battle Eion to stop him from activating the «Deconstructor» and were able to defeat him but Eion didn’t want it to end this way and sets the Station to self-destruct while trying to escape. (Final Race/Time Trial) The teams have five minutes to escape the station before it explodes until they caught up with Eion at a close call death. Acer saves Eion but he rather dies than be saved and chose to kill himself in the explosion as they watch the destruction of the station ending the reign of terror from the Agents of Justice.

A month later as everything went back to normal and back to the usual. The Sonic and Jet Team with Eggman got together for just one time at Jet’s airship. Wave was even impressed by Tails and wanted to get together with him, Knuckles and Storm became best friends but still tested each others strength like knuckleheads as for Sonic and Jet; they’re not exactly friends but a more friendly rivalry, have more respect for each other and to put their past behind and become friends. They wondered why did they do this, to get back at the Babylons for the thievery and crimes they’ve caused or was it something more to them. They even wondered what happened to Acer and his team is up to now until they arrived to ship to celebrate with Sonic’s and Jet’s team giving closure to the Babylons Saga.

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