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'''''Sonic Free Riders''''' is a [[Sonic]] game from the ''[[Sonic Riders]]'' franchise that was released exclusively for the [[Xbox 360]] at the [[sega:Kinect|Kinect's]] launch in November, 2010. It uses the Xbox 360's Kinect camera to track your movement, obviously like an air-boarder. Sega America and Sega Europe described it as "an extreme fast-paced boarding game" designed specifically for Kinect's full-body controls. Race courses feature pick-ups and usable items on the course; players can use them and launch them at one another by "throwing, shaking or swinging" with their arms.
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'''''Sonic Free Riders''''' (ソニック フリーライダーズ) is a [[Sonic]] game from the ''[[Sonic Riders]]'' franchise that was released exclusively for the [[Xbox 360]] at the [[sega:Kinect|Kinect's]] launch in November, 2010. It uses the Xbox 360's Kinect camera to track your movement, obviously like an air-boarder. Sega America and Sega Europe described it as "an extreme fast-paced boarding game" designed specifically for Kinect's full-body controls. Race courses feature pick-ups and usable items on the course; players can use them and launch them at one another by "throwing, shaking or swinging" with their arms.
  
 
==Playable Characters==
 
==Playable Characters==

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Sonic Free Riders
System(s): Kinect on Xbox 360
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Racing
Release Date RRP Code Rating
Xbox 360
US
4 November 2010  ? ?
Xbox 360
EU
10 November 2010  ? ?
Xbox 360
JP
20 November 2010 ¥6,090 w/ tax ?
Xbox 360
JP (Plat)
26 April 2012 ¥2,940 w/ tax ?

Sonic Free Riders (ソニック フリーライダーズ) is a Sonic game from the Sonic Riders franchise that was released exclusively for the Xbox 360 at the Kinect's launch in November, 2010. It uses the Xbox 360's Kinect camera to track your movement, obviously like an air-boarder. Sega America and Sega Europe described it as "an extreme fast-paced boarding game" designed specifically for Kinect's full-body controls. Race courses feature pick-ups and usable items on the course; players can use them and launch them at one another by "throwing, shaking or swinging" with their arms.

Playable Characters

Character Type Availability VA (English) VA (Japanese)
Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Default Roger Craig Smith Jun'ichi Kanemaru
Jet the Hawk Speed Default Michael Yurchak Daisuke Kishio
Amy Rose Speed Unlockable Cindy Robinson Taeko Kawata
Shadow the Hedgehog Speed Unlockable Kirk Thornton Koji Yusa
Blaze the Cat Speed Unlockable Laura Bailey Nao Takamori
Metal Sonic Speed Unlockable
Miles "Tails" Prower Flight Default Kate Higgins Ryo Hirohashi
Wave the Swallow Flight Default Kate Higgins Chie Nakamura
Cream the Rabbit Flight Unlockable Michelle Ruff Sayaka Aoki
Rouge the Bat Flight Unlockable Karen Strassman Rumi Ochiai
Silver the Hedgehog Flight Unlockable Quinton Flynn Daisuke Ono
Knuckles the Echidna Power Default Travis Willingham Nobutoshi Kanna
Storm the Albatross Power Default Travis Willingham Kenji Nomura
E-10000G Power Unlockable Wally Wingert
Vector the Crocodile Power Unlockable Keith Silverstein Kenta Miyake
Dr. Eggman Power Unlockable Mike Pollock Chikao Otsuka
XBox Live Avatar None Default
Super Sonic None Unlockable Roger Craig Smith Jun'ichi Kanemaru

As with both of the previous Riders Titles, Super Sonic is unlocked by earning top rank on every mission and then using the Chaos Emeralds gear as Sonic. Super Sonic generally has no type (the Chaos Emeralds cannot equip Gear Parts), but he becomes a Power type upon Kick Dashing. Eggman retains his previous handicap of only using Bike gear, and now shares it with Vector. E-10000G also retains the handicap of only being able to use board gear. Additionally, E-10000G is not actually playable in the story mode. Instead an E-10000B is used in its place. The Avatar, Silver, and Blaze are entirely extra, and the latter two are unlocked by clearing the first four stories.

Although both voice language tracks are included in the game disc, there is not a proper option to switch them in any regional version, and the game sets both the text and voice language by default according to the console settings language, with the Japanese voices defaulted to Japanese console language and the English voices to the rest of languages. Therefore, the only way to have the Japanese voices is by changing the Xbox Dashboard language to Japanese in order to set the game entirely in Japanese.

Physical Scans

Xbox 360, US
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Cover
Xbox 360, EU
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Cover
Xbox 360, AT
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Cover
Xbox 360, DU
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Cover
Xbox 360, FR
SFR 360 FR cover.jpg
Cover
Xbox 360, DE
SFR 360 DE cover.jpg
Cover
Xbox 360, IT
SFR 360 IT cover.jpg
Cover
Xbox 360, SP
SFR 360 SP cover.jpg
Cover
Xbox 360, AU
SFR 360 AU cover.jpg
Cover

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Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems
Xbox 360
 2006  Sonic the Hedgehog     2008  Sonic Unleashed     2009  Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection     2010  Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing | Sonic Free Riders     2011  Sonic Generations     2012  Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed    
 Demos  Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 Xbox Live demo) | Sonic Generations (Demo 1/2)