Sonic Free Riders
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System(s): Kinect on Xbox 360 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sonic Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 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
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
Artwork
- SFR logo.jpg
Trivia
- It is the only Sonic Riders game to not have a bonus Sega-themed course or guest Sega Characters.
- It is also the only Sonic Riders game with still pictures for cutscenes.
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Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems | |
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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 |