SEGA Has Released a Team Sonic Racing Trailer That Actually Shows the Game

I can only hope this will be an acceptable follow up to Transformed. It does look better with each new trailer, I’ll admit.

If nothing else the soundtrack is absolutely unbelievably amazing. Just a Jun Senoue jam session with TORIENA, Tyler Smyth, Hyper Potions, Tee Lopes, Richard Jacques...

Well that's the first video that has made the game look interesting, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one now and it's between this and CTR for my next karting game

That's looking rather good so far. As long as the gameplay is fun, then this should be a good game.

Sorry, but CTR for me

@carlos82 Why not buy both?

@LobsterJohnson I've already got Mario Kart 8 so I don't need or want 2 more karting games plus I've got many other games to buy over the next few months

The game does look a lot better. There's a good chance I'll be picking it up since I enjoyed Transformed so much. I'm sure it's not as good but hey, hopefully I'm wrong!

Already preordered:) CTR will also be purchased as well. Also Xenon racer is on the radar.

not bad dog.word up son

Does no one else find it weird that they were heavily promoting the fact you can change the sound of the car horn?
Seems such a weird thing to focus on lol

@Knuckles-Fajita ...and yet no sign of Tomoya Ohtani, who's infinitely more talented than everybody you just listed combined (with the exception of Richard Jacques who was originally, just as he did for ASR Transformed, doing the entire soundtrack all by himself before he got demoted / swapped out in a blind, post-Mania pandering panic). I'm really not one of "those" Sonic fans, but I'm totally one of "those" game soundtrack fans.

@Oh_fiddlesticks It's likely that, during online races, the horn is the closest thing to an emote that individual players can use to distinguish themselves. Given how much other games charge for emotes, I'm pleased to see such a large selection of equivalents being included in the base game for no extra charge!

@RogerRoger Any proof that Richard Jacques was swapped out for Jun Senoue? That's news to me.

Also how would adding Jun Senoue be "Mania Pandering" when he had literally nothing to do with Mania? Tee Lopes and Hyper Potions, sure, but Jun hasn't worked on Sonic since 4.2, back in 2012, Tyler Smyth only worked on Forces, and a lot of the others are newcomers to the series.

As for Ohtani, after working on Forces, and how some of that OST turned out, I think it's best he get a game off and work on the next, now confirmed mainline title to deliver his best work.

@Knuckles-Fajita All early press releases, trailers and information about the game simply said "Music by Richard Jacques" (okay, granted, they'd only showed us one actual track and confirmed the returning courses by that point, but you'd think such an all-star musical line-up would've been newsworthy from the get-go; also, that one track was Planet Wisp and when they released the music from it, it was suddenly plagued by Jun Senoue's identikit guitar work).

It was only just before the game was delayed that they added everybody else in, which was in the wake of Mania's reception. I was closely monitoring this game for the promise of another Richard Jacques soundtrack, like ASR Transformed, and so the news of everybody else cramming in was a bitter disappointment.

Jun Senoue has gotten a rockstar reception at nearly every Summer of Sonic convention ever held, and SEGA knows this. He's very clearly a name being deployed to get older fans on board. He might not be directly connected to Mania, but his name is being used in exactly the same way. "Don't worry, this is gonna be exactly as you remember it, it's a safe Sonic game!"

But hey, this is all about music, and music is subjective. A lot of this is being deduced by me and my opinion. I note that just before I claim that Sonic Forces had a far, far, FAR better soundtrack than Mania could have ever hoped for, and all my credibility disappears in an instant.

@Oh_fiddlesticks They'll sell different horn sounds for microtransactions lol

Looks cool, but since CTR is releasing so soon after I'm not sure if I'm gonna bother.

Actually looks pretty good.

I'm picking this up now. Sure CTR is good too, but that is a game I've already played to death. Sonic is a new experience. Plus Transformed was awesome.