Ironically, a spinoff kicks ass.
Story: 6/10
Sonic stories. The great suckage of anything. But for a racing game, what can one expect but mediocrity ayway? Sonic and the gang are back and this time in a true test of "speed".........on boards. Jet and his gang of thieves challenge sonic and the gang to a race for chaos emeralds. However sonic can't do it on a board right? And robotnik is behind this scheme as well (oh yeah...MAJOR plot twist here). The story has more comical moments than ever (thank god)
Gameplay: 8/10
Best i've seen in racing games yet. Starting off a racing, you are already active, having to run up to he plate at start. Good interaction there. Then its all you. Finally a racing game where you dont have to hold A all the time. You can relax...well not really. On the road you have air to watch out for. thats the new gig in this game, your health is basically air. Everything yo udo depends and helps your air. Tricks, stations, smashing, etc. Boosting takes air (duh), sliding takes air, causing twisters take air. everything basically. You can attack players by boosting behind them (which is actually pretty good, so you wont have to depend on cruddy weapons (Im looking at you mario kart) You also have a slick ability to "ride turbulence" (you know, the thing on airplanes that makes them shake? NO) Just imagine the guy in front of you has had a huge burrito and is flying ahead of you with his renegade reek of wet ass and you'll see what I mean. Jumping on this fumigated trail allows you to catch up with them and possibly pass them. The stages also feature type zones. Returning from the depths of hell is the heroes system. You have speed, fly, and power types. Speed characters can grind on rails (press A twice) Fly can go through loops (from SA1 tails stages) and power can (you guessed it) bash through obsticales. Oddly when you learn the mechanics and stage routes, you will pwn waay to easly and think "wow this game is easy" Well there are those rare moments so yeah. And besides, they have vehicules which tottaly eliminate the purpose of having different character types so bleh.
Sound: 3/10
Dissappointing, I was expecting the game to have some real kickass tracks similar to the main theme. I was wrong...the music blows. Sound effects (combined with the always incredibly retarded 4kids actors) make your ears bleed angry letters of why sonic team makes you bare through the horror.
Replay Value: 10/10
You will get a swift kick in the ass out of this game. It has actual GOOD multiplayer modes (battle mode FTW!!) actually GOOD unlockables, and its a racing game that takes actual skill (at first at least)
Overall: 10/10
This is one racing game that owns.