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Quick Look: Sonic Free Riders

Jeff and Alex get EXTREME in this hedgehog-themed racing game.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 4 2010

Cast: Ryan

Posted by: Drew

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Sonic Free Riders

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@gladspooky said:
" LEAN BACK FURTHER YOSUKE SENPAI-PAI   "  
Ok, That's why this video was making my fillings hurt. 
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habe these guys ever skated before or even surfed a board ? come on for christ sake. watching them playing is such a pain in the ass. they dont do this game justice. like movin your arms stupidly is NOt SWIMMINg !!
ooh god...

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Coming soon;  Sonic Waterboarding, only for Xbox 360 Kinect!

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I love it when I can hear Steve laughing off camera!

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This game is easy to play. I beat all 13 basic tutorials within a half hour and cleared the first mission of the story mode. It's not nearly as hard as Jeff is making it out to be. You just have to stand sideways and do the moves -properly-.

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Oh my lord could the menus take any longer to navigate?

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Not even the power of the Kinect can make 3D sonic games not suck.

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@Meatsim said:
" Not even the power of the Kinect can make 3D sonic games not suck. "
seriously, who was hoping for that to happen anyways?
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Rise's voice actor gets arouuuuund. 

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Oh please.  Let me reintroduce you two.  Rider meet horse, horse meet rider.

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JEFF SEMPAI YOU HIT ITS WEAKNESS, DO IT AGAIN!

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Kinect just doesn't work reliably with any game I've tried.

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Yeah Jeff, you're too "tall" for Kinect.

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I wonder how much better this game would be if it was controlled with a normal xbox controller.

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Omochow gave me hyperglycemia!

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For a while I kept thinking about the things this game appears to do badly, like the way that all of those menus look like a real pain to navigate through, but then I remember that it's a sonic game & therefore has to be super annoying in some way.

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You've been doing well, not you've been doing good, Jeff. Unless you have been helping the homeless or something. :)
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Perfect for racists everywhere.

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Holy fuck, this game has awful animations.

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Man this game looks terrible.

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@RedJester1029: yup!! the calabration seems well janky!!!
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The games available at this early point for the Kinect seem very unimpressive, i have no desire for one at the moment but i do look forward to see what comes out of it

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 Just got my Kinect today.  I really really enjoy it, it's great fun.  However after I spent about an hour moving furniture to make room for it.  
HUGE WORDS OF WARNING.  You can NOT play two player games if you aren't ATLEAST 8 to 10 feet from the Kinect device.  The minimum is 6-8 and that is just for single player.  You also will not be able to use Kinect ID for it to know who you are since it goes through the process thinking you have a full 8 feet of space. 
If you have the room and the space, which is atleast 8 feet around as well because remember you have to move around, then GET it.  However if you don't have the 8 feet or more then you will just be playing these games as single player games. 
I am going to post this in each quick look, so don't rant against me just want to get the word out before someone with a small living room buys this thinking they are going to have friends over and play.    

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hmm think this would be more fun if they added the tony hawk skate board :P

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Please all  sign my partition to stop sonic from air boarding, its wrong, just wrong
 
Jeff Gerstman cant jump!

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Leaning back is such a hard thing to do consistently in practice

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God damn this is awful

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Ha ha ha, oh wow.
 
 
AIRR?!!!

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@sissylion: EVERYONE in Persona 4 gets around.  If you hadn't noticed, the MC and Adachi have the same VA.
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@Rxanadu: Yeah. I'm glad for them, too - they're good at what they do. It's just a little weird for me to hear Dojima in the Dynasty Warriors Gundam game. 
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I always come back to this one for the part where Jeff has to jump. I don't even think Xbox One level kinect is going to make this feasible.

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This is one of the most commented videos on the site. And here I am adding to the trash heap. www.qlcrew.com is pretty cool