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Description

While on vacation, Tails and Sonic come across a recruiting advertisement for the World Grand Prix race. Sonic is not interested at first, but once he notices that Dr. Robotnik will participate he decides to enter. Robotnik is only interested in the race because he's learned the location of the Chaos Emeralds and now he'll get a chance to beat Sonic while he gets them. Knuckles finds out that Sonic will participate, so he joins him. Amy overhears Robotnik's plan, so she will also be racing to get the Chaos Emeralds.

There are many modes of gameplay in Sonic R:

Grand Prix: You race against the rest of the characters on each of the circuits, and get a chance to race the level's boss to unlock some of the extra playable characters.

Time Attack: Run on one of the tracks as fast as you can, get 5 balloons or tag 4 characters.

Multi Player: 4 players on a split-screen or over a network. You can race against up to three players or challenge them on a balloon finding game. The screen can be divided horizontally or vertically for 2 player games.


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Amazing racing game! VortexS130 (85) 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars

The Press Says

Micromanía Nov, 1998 78 out of 100 78
Game Over Online Nov 18, 1998 73 out of 100 73
Jeuxvideo.com Dec 14, 1998 14 out of 20 70
Gamesmania 1999 70 out of 100 70
PC Player (Germany) Nov, 1998 69 out of 100 69
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Feb, 1999 67 out of 100 67
PC Action Oct 21, 1998 65 out of 100 65
Gaming Entertainment Monthly Feb 20, 1999 51 out of 100 51
GameStar (Germany) Nov, 1998 44 out of 100 44
All Game Guide 2007 1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars1.5 Stars 30

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Trivia

This is the third racing game starring Sonic, after Sonic Drift and Sonic Drift 2. However, only this one is considered a true Sonic game; whereas kart racers are pretty much the same no matter which franchise is being used, Sonic R has elements you could only expect to see in a Sonic title.


This entry was contributed by Casualty (726) and quizzley7 (21236)
 

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