The rock-paper-stone approach to weapons, the speed reward for power sliding round corners, and the red/green shell, mushroom, rocket equivalent weapons have all been lifted from Nintendo's tour de force.īut Sumo Digital, who similarly aped Mario Tennis with their Sega Superstars Tennis, knows what they can bring to the party - a bucket load of Sega history. This is Mario Kart from Sega's parallel universe. Players of all abilities can compete in a game setup to encourage competition and help back markers catch up with the peloton. It's fast and frantic racing fun, rather than anything more serious.
There are a set of varying drivers and vehicles that compete around a set of equally varied tracks.
Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing adopts the usual kart racing memes on the Wii. Mirroring Sega's focus on action rather than exploration, this may lack the detail of Mario Kart but it succeeds by keeping the focus on the racing. Wrestles its way into our hearts alongside Mario Kart and My Sims Racing.
