Sonic Riders

Wow. Lame. Frastrating. Fun sometimes, but you lose interest fast...

User Rating: 5.9 | Sonic Riders GC

By mikeyed | Review Date: March 9, 2006

This game is frustrating as hell. The computer is way too insanely hard. If you fall to seventh place, then you might as wel just restart, because you can't catch up. It's hard enough to stay in first place.

The graphics are good. The sense of speed is good, but these are the best things about this game. The rest is just kind of... crap.

The controls are a bit clunky and frustrating. Maneuvering around a level is a bit random and jumping onto a rail is as impossible as grinding on a pencil with a skateboard.

The track design is bad. You bounce off of obstacles and sometimes you depend on bouncing off a wall or pillar. That is a bad racing game, when you need to do that.

I like this game for about 20% of the time, but the other 80% of the time, this game is a total biotch.

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