This game is a wildly different take on 3D Sonic and I think I like it more than the Adventure take on it? By no means it is flawless: the controls can feel a bit slippery and wonky, bosses are a bit of a chore and I hate levels where the design expects you to do a lot of precision platforming with tiny error margins and insta death (I think the the Desert and Volcano zones sucks due to this), but when this game is good it is GREAT!

Simply loved most of its levels, and the final one (Egg Rock Zone) was AMAZING, a great mix of challenging but fun level design and good music. I had a blast playing it with Sonic and Tails (gotta cheese the bullshit parts) and am probably going to replay it with the other characters.

I have mixed feelings about this one. The driving feels REALLY good, but progress feels grindy, non-racing events feels repetitive (due to not having a defined map or endpoint),soundtrack kinda sucks, and I'm really, REALLY bad at driving in an open map instead of the closed tracks from the past games. Feels like a good arcade racing game but a bad Burnout.

On other hand, my 5 years old kid freaking loved racing and crashing (specially crashing) on the free roam mode, and also repairing newly unlocked cars. This was the best of part of playing it.