Sonic Racing: Cross Worlds

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There's rumbles that this is being developed internally. At the very least, hopefully they take the response to TSR serious

[Tobal]

I hope it's a return to the format of Transformed, otherwise i'm not interested.

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https://asia.sega.com/SonicRacingCrossWorlds/en/

"Race across land, sea, air, space, and time"

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Potential leaked images:








The images seem to confirm that the worlds will be from across Sonic titles and spin-offs rather than other Sega franchises.

[Asura]

They may be from an unfinished version, but certain qualities of those images, to me, say mobile, but not regular mobile - services like Apple Arcade.

I suspect this is one of those titles that'll come out on GamePass but it's made to straddle an absolute ton of platforms, including services like that.

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The icon suggests a Switch 1 version is inbound so it may look a bit cut down due to that

[wakka]

They may be from an unfinished version, but certain qualities of those images, to me, say mobile, but not regular mobile - services like Apple Arcade.

I suspect this is one of those titles that'll come out on GamePass but it's made to straddle an absolute ton of platforms, including services like that.

Yeah I agree. What are you thinking of specifically? For me it's the amount of dead space in the HUD, where elements could easily be shifted to accommodate on-screen controls. The 'News' bit in the upper left of the press start screen has mobile vibes too.

[Asura]

The icon suggests a Switch 1 version is inbound so it may look a bit cut down due to that

I actually thought Xbox, as it looks like the Xbox "hamburger" button on "news" in the top-right corner of the first image.

Yeah I agree. What are you thinking of specifically? For me it's the amount of dead space in the HUD, where elements could easily be shifted to accommodate on-screen controls. The 'News' bit in the upper left of the press start screen has mobile vibes too.

These, along with how the racecar/character feels a bit higher, again to leave room. Extremely wide tracks that are very generous for handling on touchscreen (though admittedly this isn't unusual for karting games). Tracks seem comparably low-poly but high detail in texture terms, without a lot of obvious transparencies being thrown around (alpha blending leads to overdraw which is bad for mobile).

But to be fair... Even as I read that back, it feels like I'm trying to prove the existence of aliens by watching the footage of when JFK was assassinated but when I saw the images, my first inner monologue reaction was "mobile?" and these reasons are why.

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If this has any other Sega IP content I'm going to guess that will be done via DLC packs. Some peeps seem shocked to see Sonic Riders etc characters appearing but it kind of makes sense, there's an element of trying to expand the roster etc to avoid Team Sonic Racing issues but also a push to start bringing more side characters to the fore so that they have their ducks lined up for psot-credits sequences when Paramount make Sonic the Hedgehog 7

[Tobal]

From the early look of that, i assume the cross world is some just some warp tunnel mid race, instead of what we all want to see is a variety of Sega properties. No thanks Sega.

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[Yakumo]

I'll be up for this as I throughly enjoyed the first two games. Man, the boy and I spend so much time on both games. Now he's off to Uni in April, looks like I'll be playing this one on my own. 😭

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https://youtu.be/qf5hxow7Pmc?si=KkR1_LBMMCNYH79F

Sonic Team and some devs from Initial D are doing this one

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Got a code to this weekends Beta test
Pleeease be better than TSR