- Go head-to-head with your buddy and trip, shove, even vault over each other as you hurtle towards the finish line at breakneck speed
- Compete one-on-one with each of your rivals will feel just as competitive as if playing against an actual player
- Sonic style 2D gameplay in true 3D environments, custom-built for the PSP
- Race in Sonic’s traditional 2D gameplay, but throughout obstacle-filled 3D tracks, enhancing the thrills of the race
- Built from the ground-up to maximize the technical potential of the PSP
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Sonic Rivals pits Sonic the Hedgehog against some of his buddies that appeared late in the series. Knuckles, Silver, Black etc. I think about the time Sonic started having buddies was when the franchise became less fun. You rocket around 3d tracks with no time to react to what you encounter which means if you play online, someone will have cold memorized the track and will kick you silly. If you play in story mode, its very little fun unless you have the reflexes of a chipmunk on crack.
Gone are the days of using your intellect and mastery of the controls to get through the map. Now, you hang on and I guess if its summertime and you are 10, you play over and over to learn the map thoroughly. The best thing about the original Sonic on Genesis was the imagination inventing puzzles and bosses. Now, the levels are stunningly pretty, and you go fast, and the bosses suck and the control is not trustworthy. I won’t play anything where I can’t control the character because the system is too busy doing something else, which begs the question : It’s 2d, why is it so hard to
make a game that plays as well as the Genesis (I guess the PSP is 100X faster)?
Pick it up if you want to play with friends. The story mode is useless.
Rating: 3 / 5
I haven’t played this game very much but I can say that my wife LOVES it. She gets so excited that I cannot talk to her at all when she is playing. She yells at the opposing characters and sometimes has a few choice words but I won’t go into that. If you like a fast action game without too much strategy, then this game is for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
My kids seem to enjoy this game they are ages 6,7,8, and 8, two boy’s and two girl’s they seem to enjoy it
Rating: 3 / 5
Bought this as a gift, and I was told that it is the best game that he has ever played! He just loves it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Sonic Rivals was one of the first games I got for my PSP. It’s fun when you start, and it’s pretty cool collecting cards, but then it gets really boring and repetitive. I always try to collect new cards, but I always get the same cards. And the roster is also sort of boring. Silver, Sonic, and Shadow are fast (obviously) and Knuckles is the slowest, that’s all there is to know. The only character I like is Metal Sonic. The storyline is also very boring, just people chasing Eggman Nega and Eggman. That’s not a big deal, though, because I don’t buy video games to read them. I would recommend this game to (maybe) have on the go, but not to play at home or something. Just something to do when you’re bored.
Rating: 3 / 5