#KNUCKLES TEAM SONIC RACING OVERDRIVE SERIES#

Game modes include competing to earn points, time trials, customizing the racing rules, and a story-driven tutorial campaign. Team Sonic Racing differs from traditional kart racers because of its focus on cooperative gameplay, similar to the kind featured in Splatoon (2015) and Overwatch (2016)-players are part of a team of racers and win races through efficiency rather than speed. Gameplay is from a third-person perspective, with players performing tricks, drifting, and collecting power-ups. Controlling one of 15 characters from the series' cast, players compete in races using sports cars. It’s only two 4 – 5 minute shorts, yet the animators put in their A game, giving viewers a fun little ride to serve as a bonus feature for this new hyped up game.Team Sonic Racing is a 2019 kart racing game and a spin-off from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series. “Team Sonic Racing: Overdrive” is targeted towards selling a game to Sonic fans, Team Sonic don’t shy away from that fact, but it’s still a very entertaining sports comedy cartoon that anyone can enjoy. It’s kind of funny seeing Robotnik, a character who usually has wide scale tyrannical intentions, just being a bit of a dick haha! Robotnik does take part in the race as a comic foil, not because he has world domination motivations in mind, but he seems to be just having fun causing trouble, and it is revealed that he has a secret plan to steal the trophy.

There’s a gag a minute to spice up the race with comedy. From Big the Cat being drawn away from the race by cute merchandise, to Rouge the bat trying to get help after her car is busted. I counted myself laughing more times than once. The cartoons also have a brilliant sense of humour, with wacky ways for racers to get distracted or knocked out of the race. Which isn’t a bad thing, heck I know that players will have their own team of choice when they get the actual game, and that can make each fan’s experience watching this short different! Who will they want to win? Personally, I was supporting Team Sonic, because they demonstrated teamwork the best, and it’s great seeing stone faced Knuckles being a helpful dude. While Sonic may be the star, fans might want to cheer on the other teams. It’s a refreshing change of pace for a racing cartoon, when we’re used to characters only being out for themselves, and the sentiment adds some heart to the race. It’s the power of friendship that’ll help teams win. The race itself is at a constant momentum, but don’t expect it to be a straight forward race, because the main selling point is teamwork, so camaraderie drives this race’s dynamic. By the looks of it, flash animation was the tool used, but it’s stylistically shaded flash the kind of hip aesthetic needed for a Sonic cartoon. It’s impressive how vivid it all is, especially when the budget is clearly quite low for a video game promo. There’s no dialogue at all, so the animators have to rely entirely on visuals for the storytelling, with characters giving clear gestures or expressions to communicate team play or taunt a racetrack rival. I wouldn’t say that you need to be a Sonic fan to have fun watching it but I’m certain it’ll help you get more into it. Despite my lack of attachment to the Sonic franchise, I totally followed these cartoons pretty fine, getting the gist of each characters’ personality or a racing gadget’s purpose very easily. I’ve only a played a few Sonic games in my lifetime to be honest. Now, I’ve not played “Team Sonic Racing”.

It has a simple plot that follows a race between Team Sonic, Team Rose, and Team Dark.

#KNUCKLES TEAM SONIC RACING OVERDRIVE SERIES#

“Team Sonic Racing: Overdrive” is a two part cartoon web series designed to promote the new video game Team Sonic Racing.

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