Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is an upcoming kart racing game being developed by Sumo Digital for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a sequel to 2010's Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. It is to be released by the end of 2012.

Characters
So far, 19 playable characters have confirmed to appear in this game.

Development
Game development had already been well underway by the time Nintendo unveiled their own kart racing game Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS. Both titles allow for continuous racing over ground, air and water. Sumo producer Jem Lee describes seeing Mario Kart 7 for the first time:

''“We were sitting in a meeting room at work watching the E3 conferences and Nintendo came on and we all wondered if they’d be doing a new Mario Kart. Then they had a montage of things and you had a kart sprout wings, and we all looked around the room, and then you saw a car go into water and we were all like ‘no f#%$ing way!’ But then they went into each one in depth, and although it’s kind of flying, it’s more falling with style because we’d discussed something similar to that in pre-production as we were trying to work out how to get these three modes in and we called it falling with style as you’re always falling but you have some choice. Whereas the driving under water… that’s not boating. So what they have is a kart game with additive options which are really well built on and add to the experience but we’ve gone away with that in what we were doing.”''