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Sonic Riders | 
 enlarge | From: Sega Of America, Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $6.97
You Save: $13.02 (65%)
New (22) Used (13) from $3.89
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3233
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 100730
Model: 010086630862
UPC: 010086630862
EAN: 0010086630862
ASIN: B000C4088I
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1-2 Player | | • | Hang Tight! Ride the Turbulence to ramp up speed! | | • | The Bigger the Trick, The Greater the Power! | | • | Discover new characters in the giant Story Mode | | • | Up to four players in multiplayer splitscreen |
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Product Description
Sonic Riders teams up Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Knuckles and a group of new characters, in a wild newracing game. Dr. Robotnik has challenged racers from across the world to compete in his Worldwide Grand Prix, the prize being a Chaos Emerald. Sonic and his friends must compete get the Chaos Emerald before anyone else does. Multiple visually stunning locations from across the Sonic universe
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Good enough game, but Amazon totally lied about release date... May 2, 2008
Thomas B. Jones (Scappoose, Oregon)
Good enough game for the price. I really love Sonic, though, and will probably get any/every future game releases... even though they've been steadily going downhill and aren't as fun as the original we all fell in love with. And this one certainly is no exception to that declining trend.
What I thoroughly dislike & am actually quite PO'd about, though, is that Amazon totally lied about the release date. Again! Seems to happen more often than not with games listed here. They show the release date as February 12, 2008. How odd, considering the most recent of the nine customer reviews is from July 10, 2007... and the first was done February 21, 2006!!!
 Don't be fooled by the rating... July 10, 2007
Dri the Complex Lonely (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game isn't very fun. And the graphics are quite subpar for being a PS2 game. Thank goodness I rented it because if I would have bought it for full price, I'd be kicking myself for it.
Is this a horrible game? No. But is it good? I don't think so.
The worst thing about it is probably the graphics. Everyone's arms are way too long and that looks very tacky.
The gameplay is OK, at times I tried to force myself to play with cool characters such as Knuckles the Echidna but that didn't change the gameplay much. You race on air boards and if I recall correctly, there are special spots where you can get a boost. Oh yeah, and you have to refill your board with air to continue on after a while.
I don't think this is even worth 20 bucks. If you can find it for 10 dollars or less, go ahead and try it - you might like it for that price.
But if you're smart, you won't purchase it at all.
Believe me - I REALLY wanted to like this game. I saw the commercial and thought it looked cool and I'm a big fan of some of the Sonic titles (Sonic Adventure 2: Battle is my favorite) but it just didn't satisfy my tastes.
A crappy, nearly-deleted of all signs of life. If you wanna laugh, then get this. But then the hysteria will quickly turn to tears, I swear!
Cover Art: B-
Inside Art: ?
Graphics: F
Characters: A+
Character Models: F--- (seriously. never in my god-forsaken Life, have I seen them do THIS much of a piss-poor job with them. Amy and the crew look like their arms have been stretched to all lengths of Hell, in some strange arse torture chamber! YUCK. Wait and see!)
Dialogue: D+
Length: B-
Overall: D-
Third. Worst. Sonic. Game. I've. EVER. E-V-E-R. Experienced.
Yes. I. Said. W-O-R-S-E! Than. Sonic. Spinball!!!!! (Mopes Quietly in a Corner)
2 stars.
 Hours of Fun January 27, 2007
Ilia V (Connecticut)
I got this game for my 6 & 8 y/o kids and they absolutely love it. Not only it is easy to play they have longlasting hours of fun and laughter.
 Sonic Riders - A slightly pleasant bump in the road to Next-Gen January 9, 2007
Sonic232 (Vermilion, OH USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To be honest, I'm not much into racers. However, I *am* into Sonic games, having picked up stinkers like Shadow the Hedgehog just so I can beat it and put it on the shelf to say I have it along with most of the other Sonic games (I have them all in some way, shape or form, except for the Next-Gen Sonic). I'm also a spriter. I saw a project for making the Sonic Riders forms of everyone and jumped on it, renting a copy for myself. Unfortunatelly, it lay unfinished after 2 renews.
2 months later, I finally buy the thing so I can finish my project. And still haven't done that ^.^;;
Overall, the game looks cool, has decent overall controls, but was just a way for Sega to give the fans something before the next-gen version came out, and a way to cash in on him one last time before then. Its definitelly a step up from Sonic R, giving the feeling of speed that a Sonic game should and has slightly imaginative features like the character-type specific shortcuts. Overall, if you're a Sonic Fan, get it. If not, go pick up Mario Kart.
Nice game choice June 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sonic riders rocks! There lots of boards characters, and other unlokables. Here's one flaw-Turbulence. It changes were I want to go. For example- if I want to go to an air pit, A turbulence can change my direction! Then I have to wait longer for more air! Other than that, the game ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buy this game. you wont be sorry.
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