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News - Sonic Rivals (PSP) screens

Posted by Josh Freund at 02:41:57 PM EST on 10.7.2006.

We've got some new screens of the carnival course from Sega's Sonic Rivals.

Rivals is a racing game rather than a traditional Sonic platformer, but it will feature similar controls to the usual 2D Sonic games. Confirmed characters include Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, and Silver, a new character to the series. Each character will have his own storyline in single-player mode, and each will have unique abilities to use against the other racers. Along the way, they'll be able to collect tradeable cards, which can grant new powers, change appearance, and so on.

Tails and Amy will make appearances, but they have not been confirmed to be playable. Returning as the ultimate bad guy will be Dr. Eggman (or "Dr. Robotnik," if you prefer).

In addition to single-player, Rivals will feature wireless multiplayer modes.

Sonic Rivals is slated for a November 21 release in North America.

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mikey 10.9.2006 at 06:05:08 PM

I literally can't wait for a sequel to Sonic Rush. I've played it through completely 3 times now on normal, which is like playing it through 6 times because you need to play through with Blaze and get all the Chaos Emeralds with Sonic to get the extra final boss battle.

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dj tempora 10.8.2006 at 08:43:50 PM

Hmm...

If I remember correctly, I played this at E3 and they were supposed to give me some swag for it, but they didn't. :(

Seemed decent at the time, if a little unpolished. Those new screens look awesome.

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.ashkore. 10.8.2006 at 03:27:22 PM

"scarecrow is the ultimate fanboy. bowdown to you sir, you are extremely elite! Who needs graphics and eye candy! Give me stick figures and atari 2600 pixels!"

Ultimate fanboy? No, he just likes to cry about stupid things. If they stop having beautiful grpahics and just use stivk figures you know you would hate it. Grow up. And why are you bowin down to him... *shakes head*

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moncappy 10.8.2006 at 09:51:22 AM

The visuals look quite impressive. While I certainly am not enamored with the handheld, I do concede that it can put out some very impressive visuals.

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jcgamer60 10.8.2006 at 02:57:41 AM

Crap confirmed?

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duque501 10.8.2006 at 02:08:18 AM

"Pandemonio" anyone?

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terpfen 10.8.2006 at 12:20:42 AM

"Not everything would be better on a Nintendo system."

It's refreshing to see that sort of commentary.

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cainkid 10.7.2006 at 11:25:08 PM

sonic universe already has tons of people already in it... don't know why they felt the need to add more for every game that comes out.

Just using wikipedia:
Emerl the robot
Espio the chameleon (needs to be in a game!)
Vector the croc
Charmy the bee
Mighty the armadillo (Chaotix yo!)
Nack the weasel
Blaze the Cat (really? one game?)
Tails (duh)
Cream
Amy
Rouge the bat

This is of course without touching any archie comics sonic characters.

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ecureuil 10.7.2006 at 10:09:49 PM

They could have done a 2D Sonic, with brilliant, crisp, bright graphics, high speeds and classic Sonic gameplay.

But no, they had to go for some Pandemonium-style pseudo-3D racing game crap.

I don't know why I still care about Sonic games, but I do. One of these days they'll lose me as a customer..

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sirsniffy 10.7.2006 at 09:09:06 PM

Silver? So many critters in the Sonic Universe. I am still waiting for:

Doink the dog
Fifi the frog
Colleen the etruscan shrew
Raheem the worm
Dotty the praying mantis

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles...that is all we really need!

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tehrod 10.7.2006 at 06:07:37 PM

scarecrow is the ultimate fanboy. bowdown to you sir, you are extremely elite! Who needs graphics and eye candy! Give me stick figures and atari 2600 pixels!

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cutriss 10.7.2006 at 03:16:28 PM

Having spent 30 hours so far playing GTA on the PSP, I'm really getting to dislike that analog nub.

More RPGs and platformers please, less racing games that are hard to control.

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justican 10.7.2006 at 03:13:26 PM

Concidering at this point at time, Sega wants Sonic to be on EVERY platform available, im sure it dosent take a genius to see if you want to see this game on another console, forget about it, im sure due to the strong sales and good reviews of sonic rush, a sequel is in the works.

So for this game, you can either get it on the PSP or not at all......Lets just hope it dosent turn out like Pokemon Dash!

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drakken 10.7.2006 at 02:49:23 PM

scarecrow: Give it a rest. Honestly. Not everything would be better on a Nintendo system.

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scarecrow9 10.7.2006 at 02:48:33 PM