by Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK. Visit Macworld UK’s blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic.
Feral Interactive’s Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Mac App Store link) is aimed at a younger audience who probably isn’t concerned about realistic driving controls and real-world race-tracks.
You can choose to play as any of a wide range of Sega characters, including Sonic himself, as well as his arch-enemy Doctor Eggman, or even characters such as cool-dude Ryo Hazuki from the Shenmue game series. Each character has their own set of wheels, so you can opt for Ryo’s fork-lift truck if you don’t like the cutesy vehicles driven by Sonic and his crowd of cartoon friends.
Feral Interactive
The choice of vehicle seems to be largely cosmetic though, and actual driving is pretty simple. All you can really do is just steer left or right, accelerate, or use the drift control to help with some high-speed turns. There’s no brake, and you can’t wreck your vehicle either; crashing into obstacles just slows you down a bit, or sends you careening around the track like a ball trapped in an oversized pinball machine. Even driving over the edge of a cliff just causes the Sega logo to flash onto the screen and then returns you to the track completely unharmed. The fact that there’s no real penalty for bad driving means that adults and older children won’t find the game much of a challenge, but there are enough colourful twists to keep younger players happy.
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