It's a little bit like playing Wii-Sports and Mario Kart at the same time.įamily Video Game Age Ratings | Home | About | Radio shows | Columnists | Competitions | Contact More unusual though is the way each of these collectibles adds an in-race minigame. These either give you a boost or slow your opponents down - that much is expected. Then there are jumps that you have to synchronise with your real-world leaps to maximise height and speed.Īlong the way you can collect power-up items. The impressive scenery flies past as you lean left and right to steer and there is a real sense of speed as you crouch down or hit the on-track pads to gain an extra boost. It looks great and all the regular Sonic characters are here to race as or against. Like Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Wii) you use motions to control your ride through a Wipeout style looping circuit, only here you aren't holding anything. Sonic Free Riders lets you jump on some rather Back To The Future style hover boards in a fully featured racing experience. I was pleased to find a game for Kinect that wasn't sporting or dancing focused.

There's plenty to enjoy in this ambitious Sonic outing, but the Kinect controls made me miss my good old joypad.

Sonic Free Riders' exuberant racing is better on paper than in practice.

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