Sega has announced Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, an arcade racer featuring cars, planes and boats.
The game will launch for Nintendo 3DS, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita [
Wii U] and Xbox 360 in "late" 2012.
Transformed, the sequel to 2010 racer Sonic & All-Stars Racing, adds the ability to shift your car Mario Kart 7/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-style into a boat or plane for aquatic or aerial sections of the track.
You'll be able to barrel-roll in mid-air, too.
It's being developed by OutRun and Sonic & All-Stars Racing creator Sumo Digital, under the guidance of former Bizarre Creations design manager Gareth Wilson. "This is a massive, massive budget title," Wilson, who worked on Blur and the Project Gotham Racing series while at Bizarre, told Eurogamer.
Racers include the usual cast of faces: Sonic, Dr Eggman, AiAi from Super Monkey Ball, along with some Sega fan-favourites: Vyse from Skies of Arcadia (Oh-Em-Gee!) and Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe.
Super Monkey Ball and Panzer Dragoon-inspired tracks are shown in the new screenshots, below.
Powerful All-Star moves will return, awarded when you fill your All-Star meter through "daring and stylish" play.
Eurogamer's Oli Welsh has already peered at the game - read his thoughts in our just-published
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed preview.
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