Sonic Racing & All-Stars Racing Transformed is arcade-ish racing game that has lot of interesting gimmick for a good and fun racing game. Play as the entire popular roster of Sega franchise and guest characters by not using only vehicle that can be transformed into boat and plane within various themed arena from each popular Sega games. The game has nice visual and great graphic than probably can be played further next generation. Just like popular mascot racing games, the game has not many thing to offer on the story, it has campaign mode that has different racing mode where players just win various level to pick from easy to expert where the player can get stars in each winning to unlock hidden characters.
I tried to play the game in hard mode and its more challenging than easy or normal mode, if you want to get serious gameplay experience. Hard mode is satisfying to pick but sometimes its frustrating enough to beat because it requires trial and error for several attempt to memorize and master in each track. Also, this game seems fun to play as co-op game with its split screen mode where this is the appeal mascot racing like this, playing multiplayer.
I like the variation of each characters that is only based on Sonic franchise but there are spaces for other characters to pick with different design of vehicle and stats. Its an alternative racing game such as Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing. The music is such as blast with its breakbeat genre mixed with different theme of Sega games. If you like arcade racing while being fan as Sega games, you must try it.