Sonic Free Riders
| Sonic Free Riders | |
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Box art for Sonic Free Riders | |
| Developer(s) | Sonic Team |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Kenjiro Morimoto |
| Producer(s) | Kenjiro Morimoto |
| Artist(s) | Hideaki Moriya |
| Writer(s) | Yasushi Otake |
| Composer(s) | Tomonori Sawada Koji Sakurai |
| Series | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Sonic Free Riders is a 2010 racing video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Xbox 360. The game requires the use of Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for its motion controls and served as one of its launch titles in November 2010.
Sonic Free Riders is the seventh racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the third entry in the Sonic Riders trilogy. It is a direct sequel to Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. It is also the first game in the franchise to feature Roger Craig Smith as the new and current voice of Sonic the Hedgehog. The game's story centers on the series' main antagonist Doctor Eggman, disguising himself as "King Doc of Toreggmania", announcing a second World Grand Prix, secretly planning to gather data from the riders to program into his robots.
Free Riders received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, mainly due to game's motion controls, which were often described as unresponsive and inaccurate. However, some praised its presentation, multiplayer capability, and amount of content.