Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

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Originally Posted by DAMN iNATOR I'd take a Comix Zone remake over a track themed like it any day. I could never get very far in it, but I'd love to see it re-done, as long as it stayed true to the original while yet still being a somehow new experience.

Yeah I'd like a remake or a sequel. SEGA are doing a new 2D Sonic and held a poll a few months back asking us to vote which Megadrive (Genesis) game we wanted remade. Earthworm Jim was winning but he is already getting a remake so they removed him and Toejam & Earl won as far as I'm aware. What I'm getting at is with a new 2D Sonic, a new EWJ and a new TJ&E, it's not totally impossible we'd get a new Comix Zone eventually. It's just really unlikely.
Anyway Comix Zone is such a "90's" game with the music and style that if they remade it, it would probably be updated which means Sketch would likely have that whispy "emo" hair, be in his early 20s and the music and graphics would match the modern update. I can't see them releasing a new one if it still has a 90's grunge feel to it because "The kids wont buy it".

Originally Posted by Dorkchop This game will suck. Why is Sonic driving a car?

They answered that question in the gamescom interview. Basically, they tried having him on foot but it didn't work to have him handle like a car, he was too fast and it was just too awkward to do overall.

There are a couple of gameplay videos up. The game is closer to Mario Kart than I thought. The game has 20+ items but the few I saw in gameplay videos, which were only demo builds and only had a handfull of items in them, were SEGA versions of standards MK power ups. We have the speed boost item, the guided missle item and the obstacle-you-drop-behind-you-to-slow-the-others-down item.
Interestingly, something I don't think MK did, was each vehicles handles differently and performs better on different surfaces. The example given was that Sonics car handles well on concrete but slows down on grass while Robotnik handles better on grass and dirt than on concrete. Also, it seems there is a commentator.

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