Console: | Sony Playstation 2 |
TV Standard: | NTSC |
Country: | United States of America |
Developer(s): | Sonic Team |
Publisher(s): | Sega |
Release Date: | 2006-02-14 |
Players: | 2 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | E - Everyone |
Type: | Action, Sports |
Sonic Riders is a 2006 racing video game for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox in which the player controls characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series on hoverboards. In the game's 16 tracks, the player competes against characters—either controlled by computers or other players—in story and battle modes. It was developed by Sonic Team and Now Production, published by Sega, and released in February 2006 in Japan and North America. It was released in Europe the following month and for Windows at the end of the year. A Game Boy Advance version, developed by Backbone Entertainment, was canceled.