Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing...staring Jacky!

The 360 demo for Sonic and SEGA All Stars just came out today, allowing you to play as either the blue mascot himself or special guest star Banjo and Kazooie from Rare's famous series of the same name.

Now why would I put a thread about another of SEGA's attempt to cash in on Sonic's fading popularity and trying to copy Mario's various spin-offs.

Cause this game has Virtua Fighters

Everyone's favorite over-confident, goofy, and fun loving race car driver, Jacky Bryant is in, in what looks like an updated version of The Ferrari from Outrun, ready to show all those cartoony characters how it's really done, "Less Talk, More Action!"

Oh and guess who's riding shotgun?
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Now personally, I would have perfered if Jacky just just handcuffs lightning and uses them...or have Lau Chan stomp them mysteriously from the sky...or have Kage and use his as a Bullet bill type and mow down everyone...or have El Blaze shout to the heavens and give you temporary invincibility, making your car an unstoppable.........



...weapon.

But like it or not (and according to one thread that I gotta visit, you don't) Akira is the "face" of VF, and he uses one of his famous shoves to put Jacky in the lead...dunno which one is it? Anyone can tell me?

Either way, the game itself plays pretty ok, though it is harder and more hectic than Mario Kart and the Announcer is the most annoying one since the guy from Street Fighter 4, but overall a great game that celebrates SEGA History.

And hey, it could have been worse....Jacky could have had Lion and he'll annoy people to death.

"YOU BETTER TAKE ME SERIOUSLY"

No, Lion. I never can

 

To be honest, I was expecting this game to be pretty phoned in. But after playing the demo I have to say, it plays well and all the levels look interesting. I may just have to pick this one up.

 

Will buy at $30 or less. To many good games coming out right now

 

That trailer pained me. So many classic mascots, of games we won't see continued ; ; CG looked high class though, wonder if they actually took their time with this one. Most kart based games are shovel-ware. Hmm.

 

LOL @ spod'ing the ferrari

also i actually have pretty high expectations for this game, and have had them since i heard richard jacques was doing the ost!

 

Whatever the term is, I call it Akira's power of infinite shoving, as taught by Segata Sanshiro.

But it's not like Jacky needs it, he has so much confidence that even if the car explodes, he still drives on...pure confidence.

Jacky "YEAH, THERE'S NO WAY THEY CAN STOP ME!"

Akira "YOU ARE NOT EVEN IN A CAR, YOU'RE DEFYING THE LAWS OF GRAV-

Jacky "I HAVE NO TIME FOR YOU! LESS TALK, MORE ACTION. YEEAAAAAAHH!!"

 

Apparently he was, his vehicle was a Sega Saturn but they didn't feel it was right so they removed him.

 

Did he just Bodycheck the Ferrari for a turbo boost?
5 stars until i seen Sonic win the race in a car when her runs faster than everybody. Wonder if he can turn gold though.

 

Haha, I hadn't watched the video until you pointed that out... That was awesome

 

Sonic's super star move is he turns into super sonic(Gold). I was playing the demo yesterday, its up on Xbox live.
Shame you can't pick Jacky and Akira... But I guess the trailer gives it away as to what Akira does as the super star move is.

When I heard the bodycheck sound I almost cried a little

 

Gave me a laugh.

I'm downloading the demo.

 

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no he just runs bear foot with the saturn on his back and judo throws cars that mysteriously explodes for no reason.

 

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and thas why he was never included...he would be so broken, your Xbox will have RRoD, your Wii will brick and your PS3 will ask for another 13gb to load into the game.

 

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This game is this:

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robotnic is the dirk dastardly of the game

 

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hahahaha I used to love this show

 

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When I was a kid I was always convinced that Dick Dasterdly might win.

Catch the pigeon was also awesome.

 

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What I didn't get was how he got in the lead so quickly and then set a trap(only to blow up in his face). Why don't you just smoke them.