Polygon.com / 16.06.25

The cars in Sonic Racing: Crossworlds are shockingly fast (but Sonic can still outrun them)

Takashi Iizuka, the head of Segas Sonic Team, knows speed. So when it came to developing a new Sonic Racing game, Crossworlds, there was an obvious question: Just how fast could Sonic and his squad go in the current-gen era? Because, you know, they gotta go fast. Sonic is known for speed and we like putting that into our racing games, but it was one of the challenges the team had when they went to develop the game, Iizuka told Polygon via an interpreter during a play session at Summer Game Fest. The Sonic Racing development team started building the game out at a speed that they felt was appropriate based on course design, but early playtests motivated them to recalibrate. One of the things that we found out is that our Sonic fans want to go even faster, he said. What regular people felt was a great speed, our Sonic fans wanted to go faster. So the development team put in a Super Sonic speed into the game to really deliver what those hardcore Sonic fans want out of a fast racing experi...
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