My friend SandyAJ (and Twitch) arranged for myself and many of the rest of us to do a regular/semi-regular stream with friends to both highlight each other's streams and also just have a whole lot of maddening fun!
The game involves playing as numerous popular and much lesser-known characters against your friends over evolving and living maps where the tracks often change and even the roads get destroyed, your car often transforming into a aircraft of some kind or a boat. Every track has a hidden shortcut and certainly makes me nostalgic for Mario Kart, only without having to pay a stupid subscription to play online with friends, however, that brings me to the issues with this game...
Despite what I was saying earlier, the game is programmed for purely local co-op, but thanks to the power of Steam and using remote play you can play together, up to ten players as otherwise it appears to be impossible as far as I can see.
Another issue is crashes. It's a little unstable and I have had it crash on me, even when I got a newer and far more powerful machine, it had the occasional crashes meaning you have to get reinvited to remote play to join in, but you've now automatically lost that race.
You have a limited number of tracks, unless you play through the campaign mode which has a interesting start with story of why the characters are racing, however, after a while and at the final race all knowledge of the race has been lost! You can also unlock other characters, like I said before. Some very popular like other characters from the Sonic universe like Shadow or Eggman and more obscure characters like Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, Nights from the game of the same name and so on! There's even a really cool track from the game "Burning Rangers" with a really bad-ass music track from the game. At one point it feels a little lazy as later stages are reversed versions of the others, but still quite entertaining and can certainly confuse you.
Beyond these issues, it plays like any kind of vehicular combat game that's similar to Mario Kart where you grab power-ups and then use them as weapons to fire at the other racers and get past them, but there's also a battle mode, ghost elimination and a capture-the-flag where you stealing a Chao and delivering them to a ufo and scoring.
Apart from the issues with the game, it was still a lot of fun and I got many hours of fun out of it playing with my friends online who are a lot of great fun on Twitch.
Stream and Gameplay
Friends on Twitch:
Anime_Artist_Gamer: https://www.twitch.tv/anime_artist_gamer
Dark: https://www.twitch.tv/darkangel61236
SandyAJ: https://www.twitch.tv/sandyaj
Serra: https://www.twitch.tv/serrabritt
TS_Yuudachi: https://www.twitch.tv/ts_yuudachi
The game involves playing as numerous popular and much lesser-known characters against your friends over evolving and living maps where the tracks often change and even the roads get destroyed, your car often transforming into a aircraft of some kind or a boat. Every track has a hidden shortcut and certainly makes me nostalgic for Mario Kart, only without having to pay a stupid subscription to play online with friends, however, that brings me to the issues with this game...
Despite what I was saying earlier, the game is programmed for purely local co-op, but thanks to the power of Steam and using remote play you can play together, up to ten players as otherwise it appears to be impossible as far as I can see.
Another issue is crashes. It's a little unstable and I have had it crash on me, even when I got a newer and far more powerful machine, it had the occasional crashes meaning you have to get reinvited to remote play to join in, but you've now automatically lost that race.
You have a limited number of tracks, unless you play through the campaign mode which has a interesting start with story of why the characters are racing, however, after a while and at the final race all knowledge of the race has been lost! You can also unlock other characters, like I said before. Some very popular like other characters from the Sonic universe like Shadow or Eggman and more obscure characters like Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, Nights from the game of the same name and so on! There's even a really cool track from the game "Burning Rangers" with a really bad-ass music track from the game. At one point it feels a little lazy as later stages are reversed versions of the others, but still quite entertaining and can certainly confuse you.
Beyond these issues, it plays like any kind of vehicular combat game that's similar to Mario Kart where you grab power-ups and then use them as weapons to fire at the other racers and get past them, but there's also a battle mode, ghost elimination and a capture-the-flag where you stealing a Chao and delivering them to a ufo and scoring.
Apart from the issues with the game, it was still a lot of fun and I got many hours of fun out of it playing with my friends online who are a lot of great fun on Twitch.
Stream and Gameplay
Friends on Twitch:
Anime_Artist_Gamer: https://www.twitch.tv/anime_artist_gamer
Dark: https://www.twitch.tv/darkangel61236
SandyAJ: https://www.twitch.tv/sandyaj
Serra: https://www.twitch.tv/serrabritt
TS_Yuudachi: https://www.twitch.tv/ts_yuudachi