Sonic Riders
Sonic Riders is the fourth racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, preceded by Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic R. The game was released to start off the 15th anniversary of the release of the Sonic…
Sonic Riders is a racing developed by NOW Production, released 21 February 2006 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sonic Riders is
Sonic Riders is a racing game developed by NOW Production and released in 2006. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sonic Riders is a 2006 racing video game developed by Sonic Team and Now Production and published by Sega for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. In the game, the player controls characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series on hoverboards and competes against opponents—either controlled by computers or other players—in races and battles. The game was released in February 2006 in Japan and North America, with a European release following the next month and a Windows version at the end of the year. A Game Boy Advance version developed by Backbone Entertainment was canceled.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Riders is the 167th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Speed DX in 2006. Its critic score of 66 is 5 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 holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 67, across 91 votes.
What it launched against
Sonic Riders launched on 21 February 2006, within three weeks of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Muv-Luv Alternative. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Muv-Luv Alternative.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Riders yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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