Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is a hoverboard racing video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the PlayStation 2 and Wii. It is the fifth racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the…
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is a racing developed by Sonic Team, released 8 January 2008 on Wii and PlayStation 2.
What Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is a racing game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2008. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2. It runs on Havok Physics.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Babylon Rogues retrieve an Ark of the Cosmos, one of five relics capable of controlling gravity, intending to use them all to power Babylon Garden's warp engine. Other Arks fall from the sky, with one of them striking technology company MeteoTech's Crimson Tower. As a result, the robots inside go haywire and begin a global rampage. Sonic, who is traveling with Tails and Knuckles, finds one of the Arks. He is attacked by the robots, but uses the Ark's power to escape. While being pursued, the trio runs into Amy, who has also found one of the Arks. The four head to MeteoTech to investigate, where they run into the Rogues, and Storm chases after Amy in an attempt to take her Ark. The…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is the 190th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games in 2008. Its critic score of 55 is 16 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 18% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity launched on 8 January 2008, within three weeks of Burnout Paradise, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Burnout Paradise, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.
Official trailer
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