Many More Surprises Still on Deck
If you’re already salivating about the current selection of characters in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, you haven’t seen anything yet.
That character count, which at last count was to be “over 15,” now looks be more like 24. This, according to Sonic Stadium forumer bolt7, who posted not only his impressions of ASR from Saturday’s Summer of Sonic convention, but also some new details evidently relayed from Sumo Digital reps themselves.
Here’s what bolt7 wrote:
I said it’d be a cool idea to include Xbox Avatars and Nintendo Mii’s in their respected versions and he nodded saying ‘Yes, that would be awesome’ with a look on his face as if to say they’ve already considered it. He did the same when I mentioned adding Axel from Crazy Taxi in it, though I know he couldn’t tell me even if they had already done that. He said half the characters have been announced so far and there’s four out of the twelve still to be revealed that’ll really excite SEGA fans apparently. Wonder who they can be!
Let the speculation begin–who do you think will be part of the second dozen? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below. We have more coverage from this year’s Summer of Sonic on the way as well, from our UK based TSSZ News team.
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Hm! So if there are 12 molre characters, out of which 4 are exciting, what about the not-exciting 8? Are they family of Big the Cat?
awesome 24! i suppose half of the characters will be sonic characters and half sega superstarts? (since its sonic AND sega allstars) although the sonic characters already confirned are enough for me.
the more characters the better!!! especially with online play, everyone wants to be different. hey, wonder what will happen if 2 online players choose the same character?
WAY PASS COOL… I’ve got my fingers cross for Metal Sonic
My idea of the Next Characters : Metal Sonic , Ulala , Gum , Amiga, Blaze (on a motorcycle) , Mii (If they are in the Wii version) , Mario ( Couldn`t resist xD), Reala , Ristar , Vectorman, & Rouge (In her car from SA2)
C’mon Sega, you KNOW you want to put in somne of the forgotten characters (Nack, Bean and Bark anyone? XD). Oh and Metal Sonic, cos he’s awesome. Nuff said.
I couldn’t resist to add another comment
, I like your ideias, my ideias for then ext characters in order of importance are: Metal Sonic, Blaze, Jet (from Sonic Riders), Mighty The Armadillo, Nack (Fang), Mii (monkey ball), Ristar {maybe} and to finnalyze CHIP (from Sonic Unleashed) 
what you guys think of my ideias?
‘wonder what will happen if 2 online players choose the same character?’
I’d assume the same thing that happened in the demo that was at SoS, once a character is being highlighted by one player that same character on the other players list just gets grayed out. A bit boring, but it’s an effective means of not having several Sonic’s like in SEGA Superstars Tennis!
Wait.. Are there going to be just 24 characters or more?
Anyway, AWESOME! More characters!
Now Jet has chanse! And Miis would be amazing! I love miis and they gives the game so many more characters! I thought about them before, but you know, it’s Nintendo characters so didn’t really thought they would get a chanse. But if they are there, AWESOME!
sega distirbuted a sega-gamescom magazine and it says there will be a total of 20 characters
Spark : Maybe that was before the dude confirmed the 24 playable characters
Werehog: You really like Jet, don’t you. But I still think you have to wait for a Sonic Riders 3 if you want Jet. But you can always hope thet they include him. It’s chance not chanse. Sorry, I just want you to spell it right. But it’s not easy for Swdish people like you and me to spell words.
Anyway. YAY! MORE CHARACTERS! I hope they give us some cool characters! But as long as I can play as Shadow. I’m happy!
METAL, Metal, Metal Metal Metal Metal….SONIC…. METAL SONIC I’ve got my fingers cross for him, his so cool, I want him bad, I hope his in the game please SUMO please…
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Last Sonic character should be Metal. Seriously, the Sonic part of this game has enough characters unless they put in much more than 24 characters… Then they should have to throw in Fang and other forgotten faces.
And I will say it again. Vectorman and Ristar. Do this.
Osnic: Yeah! Jet is awesome! We need a rider in this game!
Annd I actuallty knew that it’s chance… just didn’t think about it. Noticed that I spelled wrong later… Belive me or not but it’s the truth. Sonic är världens bästa spelkaraktär! Jippi!
@Werehog: And it’s this stupid keyboard that mess everything up! Look! I know it’s not “annd! and “actallty”. And Sometimes I just don’t think so much and spell everything wrong… Why can’t you edit your comments here? It would help me a lot.
Before Knuckles was announced, many members of Sumo Digital posted on various message boards that only one more Sonic character was missing from the entire roster. Now that we know it’s Knuckles, the rest of the soon-to-be announced characters will not be Sonic related.
I’m pretty sure there won’t be any more Sonic characters in this (not as racers, anyway) except maybe one super secret or something, so I’m betting Ristar, Vectorman, and maybe the OutRun guy will make the roster. As for the other… 9, I’d like Ulala, Jack from MadWorld, Michael Ford (The Conduit, lolz), and Agent G and Isaac Washington from HotD:Ok. The hardcore characters need some love too lol
Considering that interview with his actor, Silver’s probably in.
Gimme some Vectorman, and decent online, and this may actually be a purchase for me instead of a rental.
You people have no imagination… there shouldnt be any more sonic characters. they need to add some more all stars. all they needed for sonic was the 5 main characters(sonic,tails,knux,amy,robotnik) and you cant even consider knux a main character because hes in NOTHING anymore.
Ristar and Vectorman, definitely, but there’s definitely room for cult favorites like Ryo Hazuki. Personally, I’d love to see Sparkster there, that would kick 10 different kinds of ass and give the lovable opossum some much-needed attention. SPARKSTER FOR THE NEXT BRAW–*ahem*. For another topic, of course.
Other then that, uh, let’s see… you’ve got the original Golden Axe cast (although figuring a giant lizard can go as fast as the rest of the vehicles is kinda hard to swallow), someone from Phantasy Star, Toejam & Earl, and perhaps any other little-known but well-loved mascot that SEGA hasn’t touched in ages.
I’d laugh if Chip was in the game. Wouldn’t mind it either, he’s a fun guy, but what would he drive? A weenie-mobile? Ice cream truck? Double-decker bus?
There’s no more Sonic characters, so why do people keep bringing them up? They released 85% of the Sonic characters known in the first footage of the game back at E3, and then Knuckles was later confirmed to be the last one.
As for the upcoming characters, I think all its saying is that 8 of them will be alright, some of which probably guaranteed (NiGHTS, Ulala, and Gilius being a few, returning from the prior game), while at least four of them are really big-time well-requested characters. Frankly, I think that makes Ristar a shoe-in for an appearance.
Vectorman, plz.
Still holding out for an Ecco cameo of some sort… ;p
I’d love it if the Bonanza Bros made an appearance! For the 4 exciting characters though, I’m guessing that Ryo Hazuki is definately one of them, maybe Ristar too? Wonderboy? Axel from Streets of Rage?
I want more characters like Big in the game. AWESOME! SONIC!
I’d like to Metal Sonic, Gunstar Red/Blue, and VectorMan. Other than that, I think this game already has a colorful cast.
i want more sonic characters, they make me happy xD! YAY!
Metal Sonic ; Chip ; Tikal ; Fang ; Bark ; StorM ; Cream ; Rouge ; OMEGA
Tails Doll ; Elise hahahaha &…SPECIAL ECCO!!! wiii the hyperactive dolphin in a car xD!!!!
*fingers crossed*
Ryo in a forklift. Ryo in a forklift. Ryo in a forklift.
Please let it be so.
Ojala is true that half the characters are yet, because I think my staff is running out for a sequel which they said they would put more of Sonic are only 2 new + returns, have to add more Sonic and I want them to Blaze, Cream, Silver and Jet (the latter almost impossible) but with Blaze and Cream would be quite happy