Awful.Sonic R is a 1997 racing video game developed by Traveller's Tales and Sonic Team for the Sega Saturn. Sega should be ashamed of themselves for ever having made this title. Now throw in some poor control, and top it off with a soundtrack that is just plain annoying techno junk. Imagine a Lego Monster getting sick, and you have some of the texturing done in Sonic R. Working on Sonic Adventure? There are some points of this racing nightmare that are so bad they reminded this reviewer of Big Rigs for the PC where you end up in this weird pseudo-3D world of glitchy graphics that make you laugh, and then eventually just piss you off. The controls are a sloppy, dodgy mess leaving the gamer wondering what they were doing when they coded this piece of crap. The best thing about Sonic R is the choice of characters, and then this game goes straight to hell in a handbasket and how!

While Super Mario Kart, and literally every other game since in this genre has retained solid gameplay, Sonic R fails on this front in an unprecedented way. Sonic R is your typical racing affair which has it's roots in Super Mario Kart for the SNES where everything in this genre began, however this is no Super Mario Kart.

Moreover, they decided to make a Sonic racing game. That's where this series should have ended, but instead someone thought bringing Sonic to the 3D arena was a good idea. Sonic 2, 3 and the expansion cart, Sonic & Knuckles were also excellent offerings with the grand finale being Sonic CD. With excellent graphics, a decent soundtrack, and rock-solid fast-paced gameplay, Sonic the Hedgehog made serious waves in the gaming world. The whole Sonic series began very well on the Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog as the 2nd pack-in game stateside. If you are a fan of Techno-Pop-Bubble Gum audio, you'll enjoy the soundtrack. Calling this game a Sloppy Mess That Never Should Have Been Made is actually a compliment to the horrid gameplay and control which infest this title for the Sega Saturn.

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