Sonic Riders Series

I sure do love the Sonic series huh? Well it's been my favorite since growing up, so that wasn't going to change anytime soon. Sonic's been in a variety of game genres, platforming games, RPG's, party games, and racing games. Now with Sonic the Hedgehog, you'd think that he'd be racing just on foot or something to that nature, and there was Sonic R, but in this particular game series Sonic and gang are racing on futuristic hover boards. This article will focuse particullarly on Sonic Free Riders, for Xbox 360 Kinect. The game has a simple enough story line. Dr Eggman aka Dr Robotnic has set up a Grand Prix offering prizes and rewards for the team that does the best. Of course he's not really interested in the competetion, he just wants the individuals data to program into some of his robots in his ever continuing quest to dominate the world. He never will, but he seems to think he will one of these days.

This game, unlike the first two Sonic Riders games, is not controlled by a controller at all. It's used by Microsoft's Kinect console. It has body recognition that you use to play the game, as well as voice recognition. It's really a fun way to enjoy the game. You couldn't really use motion sensing to play the other Sonic games, not like this anyways. The motion and realism of this easily beats Nintendo's Wii, which also has motion sensing. The game got mixed to negative reviews though, and really I can't blame that too much. The game is fun to play, especially if you've got the motion sensing down, but if you don't it's quite the headache. But the potential of Microsoft's new product is really shown in this game. Just like on a real skate board you really bend your body, and use your leg to push off and start or gain momentum. You spread your arms out to grab items and sling your arm to throw items to attack the enemies.

This game overall is really cool though. Again, if you get the motions down it's really a blast to play. And it's one of the few recent Sonic games that's fun to play. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are again cool, and that's nice to see nowdays. The voice actors do a fine job, and it's cool to see all the original Sonic characters together in a game that doesn't bite the big one. It'll be interesting if this particular Sonic game makes more room for the Sonic series on the Kinect. They will no doubt get more experience as the console is around longer, but I'm hoping this game propells Sega and Sonic in a new strong direction.

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