Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Year Two Adds Duel Mode and Cuts the Price to $39.99
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Year Two starts with one-on-one Duel Mode, the Super Slot for Gadgets, Sega console karts and a permanent price cut to $39.99.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Year Two starts today, 3 November, with a one-on-one Duel Mode, new Gadgets, more racers, vehicles and courses, and a permanent price cut. On PlayStation Store, the Standard Edition now costs $39.99, and the Digital Deluxe Edition and the new Year Two Digital Deluxe Edition cost $59.99 each.
What's new in Year Two
- Duel Mode: one-on-one races instead of the usual 12 racers. Sega's developers say it's built around a different kind of strategy, where you watch the gap to your single opponent and choose when to use your items.
- Super Slot: a new dedicated slot for one-slot Gadgets. Whatever Gadget you put there gets enhanced effects, which opens up new build combinations.
- New Gadgets, plus more racers, vehicles and courses (the announcement doesn't name them yet).
The Sega console karts
The Year Two Digital Deluxe Edition and Season Pass Two include the Sega Consoles Pack: three vehicles based on the Dreamcast, the Genesis and the Sega Saturn. Some fans will recognise the idea, which first appeared online as an April Fool's joke.
The team says it turned the consoles' shapes into car parts rather than copying the hardware: the Dreamcast's rounded body becomes fenders and a nose section, while the Genesis and Saturn's angular lines become body panels and bonnets. The Dreamcast kart even has a recreation of its Visual Memory Unit (VMU), modelled from original reference data. The Genesis Tower US vehicle took the most experimenting, so it would stay recognisable without hiding the characters or getting in the way of the racing.
The vehicles also work with the game's front-and-rear combination system, so you can pair consoles and controllers on the same kart.
