Sonic Rivals returns on PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 June, 2007

With Tails in tow.

Sonic Rivals is set to return to PSP this autumn with a bunch of new gameplay features, multiplayer modes and unlockables.

Sonic Rivals 2 will introduce Tails to the platform-racer's character selection, signature moves for everyone involved, and upgraded power-ups and range weapons along with an improved "jostling" system.

Single players will be able to take advantage of a Free Play mode to revisit their favourite levels, while a new Battle mode will allow two players to join in with six multiplayer challenges using just one copy of the game.

Card-trading and collection has also been enhanced, says publisher SEGA, with 150 collectible cards - and unlockables that stem from them and offer you PSP background images and Cup Circuits as extras.

Check out our Sonic Rivals 2 PSP screenshot gallery for more, and if you're bewildered as to what we're on about, check out our Sonic Rivals PSP review.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 5 years ago

    LOL Tails haters are going to love bouncing on him over and over again.

  • Steroyd #2 5 years ago

    Since when did Sonic have an old school adventure on the PSP I don't remember this.

  • jonsaan #3 5 years ago

    @Steroyd.

    That's because it was PISS poor, yet received strangely lenient reviews..

  • Steroyd #4 5 years ago

    A 2D Sonic can't be piss poor, definately not compared to the 3D offerings.

  • Arcadiian #5 5 years ago

    an old school adventure ?

    it's a simple racing game, isn't it ?

    Sonic the Hedgehog 2 had this as a mini game, and now SEGA feel a sequel to a PSP version of it is justified ? hah.

  • SeesThroughAll #6 5 years ago

    It's also fun.

  • Arcadiian #7 5 years ago

    fair enough, but the content added is little more than i consider downloadable content.

    a sequel doesn't seem necessary.

  • SeesThroughAll #8 5 years ago

    To me, it will convince me if the sequel DOES have enough content.

  • Arcadiian #9 5 years ago

    exactly, and i don't think it DOES, at least not to justify a sequel.

  • SeesThroughAll #10 5 years ago

    Well, I hope so.
    For starters, the "free mode" should have been there in the first one. If it has something like ten zones instead of six, it will certainly appeal to me enough.

    That and making Tails pay for all those times he got me killed in Sonic 2 ;)

  • Arcadiian #11 5 years ago

    hah, i'm with you on the Tails thing.

    i'm just a bitter SEGA zealot, i used to expect so much more from them.

  • ecureuil #12 5 years ago

    Why can't they just make a lovely widescreen 2D Sonic on the PSP? I hate this pseudo-3D, Pandemonium crap.

  • SeesThroughAll #13 5 years ago

    I like it, actually. The gameplay is exactly the same as any 2D Sonic, but when you get to those loops and such, it gets a bit more cinematic.

  • Arcadiian #14 5 years ago

    i'd rather a decent 3D Sonic, there have already been a few good 2D ones now.

    i loved Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast, i know the "RPG elements" weren't to everyones taste, but the individual levels were great.

  • trav #15 5 years ago

    2.5D Sonic = win.

    So lets remove the racing element and keep to what Sonic is good at. Being a 2D platform game.

  • Santino #16 5 years ago

    maybe not the right place for this comment but has anybody else heard the news that bioware is making a sonic rpg for the DS?

  • dirigiblebill #17 5 years ago

    Tails wasn't so bad. It was after that there Knuckles arrived that everything went tits-up.

    Fuggin' Amy Rose.

  • onyx_elite #18 5 years ago

    Wow. It's like all the previous utterly rubbish sonic games never happened! A true return to the original popular form! With card.. trading... hang on. More characters? Card trading? PSP background images? Wait just a minute, this is just another 'new & bollocks' Sonic game isn't it?

    You just can't resist dragging that poor hedgehog out of the tranquility of a well-earned retirement and the fulfillment of earning the status as one of the most beloved characters in gaming history, can you? No, you have to drag him kicking & screaming, naked and beaten into the town square to be flogged senseless at the hands of a new generation of gamers who regard him with disdain for his bollocks controls, sickening art direction, ridiculous plots, new inane 'friends' to share his increasingly benign and tedious adventures.

    Card trading, you say there SEGA? I am but one of a million or so twenty-somethings who, having seen our beloved mascot reduced to a laughing stock in recent years, would gladly insert all 150 into your super-special golden ring.

  • ToAks #19 5 years ago

    i really enojoyed Sonic Rivals, was to me the best Sonic game in over a decade... and i am a huge fan of Nights Into Dreams(saturn) and Pandemonium (psone) so Sonic Rivals was like a much awaited thing for me...sadly the game was over too fast and at times it felt too easy or too annoying.

    Anyway it got reviews from as low as 01 out of 10 to 09 out of 10 (atleast them which i saw in normal games magazines).

    Looking forward to the sequel and that card trading part which was in the first game..certainly aint welcome in the sequel, IMO ... never used it and never will.

    Looking forward to the gameshare which is announced though :)