Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Critic Reviews

It's a new and improved Sonic Riders with plenty of new tracks and characters to enjoy. It's a must-have for Sonic fans and a "might-enjoy" for aces of the racing genre, especially for those who like F-Zero and Wipeout.

A surprisingly fun effort, but it's just not as solid as it should be (the controls in particular) and the overly complex mechanics might put the more casual Sonic fans off.

As with the original " Sonic Riders", a large segment of the gaming populace will likely fine Zero Gravity immensely frustrating.

Our advice: use a GameCube controller, learn the shortcuts, and hope the next one sorts out that boost system.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is a racer that comes up just short of being respectable.

Not dreadful but not great: another shotgun marriage between Sonic and the Wii.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity has some good ideas, but it all ultimately falls flat in its execution. The controls are stiff and unresponsive, the track concepts are great, but lack quality design, and the context-sensitive shortcuts feel like a waste of time that do nothing but over complicate things, littering the tracks with garbage.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity’s problems keep it from being a consistent blast - but it has its moments.

You have a GameCube controller handy, Zero Gravity is very nearly mediocre.

All in all, it’s a step forward from the original, but still retains much of the flaws and annoyances.

If you can suffer the controls or have GameCube controllers lying around, it's not a bad kickback-n-relax option for some speedy cartoon laps.

Zero Gravity might not be as good as the well known race games from Nintendo themselves, but this game can offer quite some fun. The levels are designed nicely and the different routes offer a lot of variation. The only real downside is the control: it's just too frustrating. This is a nice placeholder for the next Mario Kart.

This game could have been a real heavy hitter, especially coming off of the holiday rush. Instead with unpolished controls, dismal graphics, and a mediocre soundtrack, this game will remain a shadow of what it should have been.

There’s no denying the entertainment that could come from a blazing fast Sonic racing title, but the Riders franchise has tried twice, and both times failed to deliver solid control and a true sense of speed.

Zero Gravity does not earn any of The Wiire's awards simply because the game does not excel in any category.

A limp, insipid futuristic racer with dodgy controls and weak gameplay. You can do much better, as can Sega.

It’s sad, really. Now that Sega’s console days have gone the way of the Colecovision, Sonic just doesn’t get the respect that he used to.

The racing has been so simplified that it may find a much larger audience than the original did. It's not for me, though. I like technique and speed in my racing games, unless we're talking something like Outrun 2, and even that has a drifting mechanism that makes a modicum of sense.

Another Sonic game, another disappointment. It seems like whenever the hedgehog jumps off the tiny screens of the current handhelds, everything just falls apart for him.

Too slow, too short, too annoying. Only the graphics have any real quality. Stick with "Sonic And The Secret Rings," or even "Excite Truck" if you don't mind the lack of hedgehog.