Huge Vote of Confidence Despite Mario Kart Comparisons
IGNorance is bliss. It may also be dead.
IGN’s Craig Harris today awarded an “Impressive” 8 out of 10 score to the Wii edition of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
Traditionally, Wii ported Sonic fare has rated better on IGN than games on XBOX360 and PS3. But a score this high hasn’t been seen for an original Sonic title on the site in quite some time.
Though Harris believes much of what’s under the ASR hood is derived from Nintendo’s Mario Kart franchise, in his written closing comments, he says while it may be a clone, it’s a clone that can hold its own:
Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing may not have a whole lot in the gameplay department that it can call its own, but Sumo Digital took what worked and built a SEGA-themed experience that captures what makes the company’s games so memorable. This racer is surprisingly deep and robust, and even with its unoriginal design it’s a great time no matter which version you get.
Below, we have an embed of the video review Harris filed. We’ll see how the HD counterparts stack up, but so far, this is in line with other reviews, and for consistency’s sake, that is a very good sign.
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For IGN rating a Sonic game with that score….
That’s really damn impressive.
Well i be darn IGN finally gave a Sonic game a good score for once and i think Mario Kart Wii wont be saling as much i mean who doesnt have the game by now? besides Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing takes more skill which i like and the items dont have a full effect on you like in Mario Kart so i prefer Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing better.
Did Hell just freeze over?
Didn’t Crash Team Racing do the drift and jump boosts first?
@LightEffexor: maybe so.
in any case the Demo I played of it over the weekend, on my PS3, was quite the memorable experience: not the best game I’ve played, it does leave quite the creative effect. I find myself wanting more of the that same satisfaction.
no way i dont believe it!
Well that’s a huge surprise coming from the Anti-Sonic website.
Maybe because it has other Sega Characters in the game.
Or maybe they fired the Anti-Sonic people that were reviewing the games.
I’m hoping it’s the latter.
Well i’ll be darn, that is actually a very good score. In the worst scenario i tought they would just check back to see what score they gave MKWii and deduct a point or two but gladly that wasn’t the case here. Still even if this is a MK clone there is one aspect no one has mentioned: the drifting is beautiful and gives the game a sense of rythm.
Looks like Satan will be skating his way to work. :p
It’s not just the Wii
they did all versions in that one review.
You guys just get butt hurt when a professional dislikes an actual shitty game. IGN isn’t “ignorant”, they just give bad scores to shitty games that deserve it, and you cry over it. They rated this one high, because it’s an actual good game.
Nice score for the Wii edition.
Serpx: thank you. Games like Heroes, Nextgen and Shadow didn’t get bad ratings for no reason (well, Unleashed somewhat did, but yeah, one game).
@Cody Collins
Heroes had some cringe worthy witing, and shadow had some cringe worthy acting, but they were decent games, 6-7.9 easy. Those two games are always reviewed far too low. ’06, WAS a glitch fest, it had it’s good points but was still glitchy, so it deserved it’s score.
Anyhow, on topic, I’m gonna get both MKWii and ASR this weekend and see how they really stack up. Miraculously, I’ve somehow managed to only play MKWii twice, and by twice I mean two races, and by two races, I mean a year apart from each other. So it’ll be interesting to me to see which one I like more, though ASR has an obvious advantage, given the site I’m on.
@serpx: I agree with you in all of those except with the Sonic Unleashed review for 360/PS3. One thing is to say a game suck with actual facts but to do it by playing in a retarded way just to make it look bad for the sake of fanboyism is a whole other thing (thank you Hillary Goldstein, you proved that day that you just suck at games). However I have to admit that IGN did a good job and thank god they didn’t pull a GamesTM on this one.
Wo..wo..WOA!? :O
Someone! Give me 2 PS3 controllers!
@Cody Collins: I’m gonna save you some money. MKWii was the weakest of all the Mario Karts. After all the things double dash introduced MKWii comes as a step backwards. It also recycles a lot of tracks and while some might call it nostalgia I called it laziness on part of Nintendo. Heck the only new thing is the control scheme, everything else is not that good: graphically inferior to MK: DD, cheap AI that just keeps spamming weapons all the time. The only good thing might be the online but even at that there are always the cheaters who get the best power ups at will.
If anything SASASR improves on all of MKWii’s flaws and goes a little beyond with better fanservice and a beautiful control that emphasizes on drifting and chaining powerslides. the only downside is that only 6 Sega IP’s get track representation. but even at that the tracks designs is miles ahead of MKWii.
Finaly A Sonic Game That Has Got Good Reviews By Critics
I can’t believe it I just can’t.
@Yintel: Maybe it was a typo?
SOunds fantastic!
Holy… Well, that would explain why I’m about to hit by a blizzard…
Devil: BRRRR… It’s cold down here.
400MS points in europien money is about £4.80 per episode with USA being $5
and your welcome for the infomation
IGN gives such a cool score?! It`s a miracle!
its a buy…i also need more wii games. so hecks yeah!!!!!!!!!!