I found this on the GC board for Sonic Riders. The credit goes to Blackarms for finding it not me.
*From Sonic Stadium Sonic Riders Board*
Gamer.tv showed a Small review this morning on Bravo(uk) they gave sonic riders 4 out of 5. In their own words the controls are Tight but you can pick them up fairly easy, they wished that the games story mode was a lot longer though.
Certain stages are played during diffrent times of day in reverse (u go the other way around the course) and they showed a night time version of metal city. Character assortment is vast as is the ability to customise your rider`s board out of a possible 200 combinations, which is nothing to be sniffed at.
They didnt show all the characters, but they did show a new one i havnt seen on the official sites yet. Kinda hard to discribe, im guessing hes some sort of puple rat by looking at him (color co ordination again) but he has a massive L-shaped tail and a pointy bucktooth (beaver?) and a western style hat and attire, kinda like a cowboy. He was also driving a bike of some kind which ive seen only eggman do.
They complained about one of the stages being Green cave saying that sometimes its hard to tell which way your character is going resulting in many fall-outs and loses of the game. The voice acting can be switched to japanese for the PAL version and the commentator either switched from female to male or off altogether.
Mission mode and Combat mode add to an all round fun experience for those playing in multiplayer or going it solo against AI controlled characters.
Speaking of AI the other riders are extremly skilled at keeping up with you, by making even one mistake youll find you may be taken over by several other riders before you get your bearings. Speed competitors including Amy Rose which Gamer.tv are terrified of, manage to get ahead of the pack and provide the real obstacle to beat in the game. Sadly most of the time you wont see the slower power characters or the nimble flying characters as the AI uses the best routes possible for that specific class ( although they did say that they were stunned several times by Knuckles and Storm getting ahead of them by smashing through a whole lane of traffic in metal city )
All in all 4 out of 5 aint bad, considering most of the games reviewed dont get that high. They dont always put reviews on their website but they might put up sonic riders one day.
(edit: looking at their website its terribly out of date by several months in fact, sorry)
Gamer.tv
It looks like Fang is back. (Note: Blackarms says this review may not be true)
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