Super Sonic Racer

I sure Sonic the Hedgehog.

You really should play this masterpiece made by Sonic Team

Finished the game got this game as a birthday gift not going to lie was funny then the game got serious also were is sonic the hedgehog in his super form game review 4.8/10 not bad

Super Sonic Racer is an ancient game from 2011. It's a whopping 13 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. This D-minus quality console (Wii) ported kart racer is clearly a ripoff of Sonic the Hedgehog's first racer, Sonic R, and is also obviously a trademark infringement, so it's pretty amazing Sega never sued. The quality of this racer is complete garbage, it's janky, tries to be too friendly, so if you turn around or whatever, it just insta-resets you (after some delay), which actually sets you back more than if you just recovered (but it doesn't give you a chance). For some reason you control characters like ants, I guess that was the only defense the developers could think of to try stop Sega from sueing them. Although perhaps just not ripping off other developers trademarks would be the best approach here... shame they didn't think of that. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Super Sonic Racer is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $3 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

Sega really let themselves go... [spoiler] Like i expected, the game is not that bad, i had fun for a few minutes. The dealbreaker is the terrible gameplay, no options, no controller support, and glitches (You have unlimited powerups). Still pretty decent. [/spoiler]

This game is sickening and awful

69 cents on sale old school fun ! good times thanks steam!

This game gave me am STD

I had extremely low expectations, and this game only slightly disappointed. What I admire most about "Super Sonic Racer" is how much it will never, ever be Mario Kart and yet how much it doesn't seem to care and just exists. Why does this game exist? I don't know. There are only eight tracks and eight levels that are the tracks reversed. I really like the graphics and the characters are funny. Not "Haha" funny but "why does this exist?" funny. The human characters are creepier looking than the alien characters. There is a taxi driver character named "Otaxia." He's not an alien, he just has a strange name with the word "taxi" in it. There's also an alien named Boter'd. Why is his name Boter'd? I don't know. The vehicles all seem to handle differently but there's no statistical differences listed. Some are fast and some are just awful. You want to get the lead early and hold it since enemies in this game seem to be default slower than the player. You also get a boost and can pick up powerups, but since you're going to want to be in first the powerups are pretty useless. You just want to get the boost powerup and dump the rest. You need to get first in every race to unlock the next set of races, which is extremely easy. I 100% completed this game in 51 minutes and it is probably not because I am extremely skilled but rather that this game is pretty indifferent to the player losing. The game puts checkpoints all over, as though it's trying to squirt dopamine into the player's brain to keep him engaged so he doesn't shut it off. Who would play as Boter'd or Otaxia if this game was frustrating? Even if you miss the checkpoint, you still respawn next to where you died, making the checkpoints completely useless. You can even press "R" to respawn if any enemy hits you and sometimes just jump ahead of him and keep going. There is no multiplayer, which is unfortunate, because I wanted to share my love of "Super Sonic Racer" with the world, but at least as a solo experience I can say it's 51 minutes of my life I am never getting back, nor do I want to, because this game is- well, not a hidden gem. It's not a diamond in the rough, it's argonite in the rough, or cubic zirconia, in the rough.

I really love cheating to win, it makes this game kind of fun spamming weapons