On British wackiness and cooperation in Team Sonic Racing

Team Sonic Racing™

Team Sonic Racing combines the best elements of arcade and fast-paced competitive style racing as you face-off with friends in intense multiplayer racing.

I’m no Sonichead, but I still got a kick out of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Instead of making you turn into planes and boats, Sumo Digital’s new upcoming kart racer makes you turn to your friends. You race as a team of three, passing power-ups between you while boosting behind each other’s bottoms.

I sat down with Team Sonic Racing design director Derek Littlewood at EGX, and asked him about how racers might feel about being dependent on other people. And maybe also opened the door for a reappearance from the Football Manager manager.

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