10 New, HD Sonic Free Riders Screens
Tristan Oliver | July 16, 2010
Catch Some Air, in High Resolution
Below in our gallery, courtesy of French website Jeux Video, are ten new screenshots from the upcoming XBOX Kinect exclusive Sonic Free Riders.
Many, if not all the screenies appear to be from the test stage that was on display at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. The shots appear a bit jagged and almost serve as a reminder of Wii capabilities–far below the capabilities of an XBOX 360.
The shots are still worth a look, and they are available below. We’ll continue to keep you updated on Sonic Free Riders here at TSSZ News. Thanks to Adamis Fox for sending this into us. If you have news to share, be sure to share it with us by clicking News Tips at the top of every page.
Filed Under Gaming News, Microsoft, Sega, Sonic Free Riders, Sonic Scene, The Next Sonic
Crap in High Definition
They seem to have finally picked a model for Sonic, at least for the most part. Sonic 4, Sonic Colors, and this game all seem to use a modified Sonic Unleashed 360 model. Of course, this is a good thing, as that model was one of the only good 3D Sonic models ever made by Sega
@PJMan:
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I hate how anything that’s not in the dead center of the screenshot has terrible perspective. I mean, look at Knuckles in the first one. In non-shitty game screenshot land, Knuckles wouldn’t look all skewed and squashed if he were just to the left of Sonic.
@Sonic Warrior TJ – I sincerely doubt that any of those screenshots are depictions of actual gameplay. That being said, yes, the screenshots perspectives are terrible.
These look like wii screenshots.
@PJMan: Sonic Riders have always have different models compared to the rest of the Sonic games.
I already saw these at the Sonic Stadium website. I will have to wait and see how the game goes, but I hope people don’t bash it so much, even though it is a Kinect launch title.
@SEGAMew
That’s because in Sonic Riders, the characters wear different clothing to fit well with the game’s futuristic setting (i.e. Tails is wearing goggles on top of his head).
@xamoel: Couldn’t say it better
They need to confirm controller support for me to care about this game, the motion controls in ZG were horrendous and expect this to be more of the same only you get the added annoyance of having to stand up to play it.
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I wouldn’t be too surprised to find out these systems eat up all their processing power to do something that thy weren’t originally intended to do. That being said, Wii games take bad screenshots, but they look better than this in person (the good ones anyway, but I’m going to assume those are the only one we care about).
Bad graphics… :/ Well, that’s what these pics shows.
I really hope nobody spends $150 to play this. It looks like a $15 XBLA game.
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