We weren't exactly enamoured with Team Sonic Racing when we played it at this year's EGX. It lacks the nostalgic sparkle of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed, and its team-based mechanics seem undercooked. It wasn't going to live up to the same standard as its predecessor, in other words. SEGA seems to feel the same way, as it's pushing back the release of Sonic's latest racing escapade all the way to 21st May 2019.
The game was originally due out before the end of this year, so it's a pretty drastic delay. Here's the official word from the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter:
The reason for the delay isn't completely clear, but with that much extra time, it's possible there will be some important changes made to the game. We'll have to see how it all shakes out, of course, and fundamentally it'll likely stay a cooperative kart racer. Let's hope SEGA and Sumo Digital can make improvements in the right areas.
[source twitter.com]
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i would rather a game is delayed then released early and broken
Given that early impressions made it sound like a load of twoddle, this is probably a good thing.
Completely on board with the delay, I hope they take the time to make the game truly great.
Don't wanna say "I told you so" but... well, I won't, because I predicted a delay until February 2019, not freakin' May.
But happy to wait for when it's ready.
Throw in other Sega characters.
It played terribly at EGX. They blamed it on the Bluetooth but I wasn't so sure. I think this is for the best.
Interesting. Glad they're taking time with it but it sounds like it's gonna need a lot more than an extra 6 months to turn this into something worthwhile, unfortunately.
Good, I just hope at the end of the day we get something that comes close to Transformed.
Funny how the game was due out in Dec for the past few months since they announced it in June but never got a date, and they now have an exact date "May 21" which isn't for another 7 months.
The delay in this one was obvious and predictable as Dec grew closer but it never got a date, but May is pretty far away, they must have plans for improvement and not just tightening it up.
Credit to them not going with the bog standard - "We were afraid of RDR2 so we moved it".
Take out the awful ‘team racing’ mechanic and just improve on the last one and make a decent kart racer with some great local/online racing/battling. That’s all we want!
It's looked rubbish from day one, the sooner Crash gets his kart out the better
Nice to hear that they are going to delay it and fix it. It's going to be great if they polish it.
I hope it secretly gets canceled and replaces with an All Stars sequel.
@KidBoruto Yep, same here! Transformed is the best kart racer game, even (dare I say it) better than a certain plumber! It and its prequel get a lot of play on the old PS3 and Vita even now so we just need a slick racer like that one.
A bit gutted as was the game I was most looking forward to this holiday season but was getting worried about it with the no info and poor showing at EGX. Could Sega just re release transformed would make most people happy.
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