We were in for quite the surprise when Sonic Racing CrossWorlds was announced during the 2024 Game Awards on December 12th.

Little is officially known about this newest and latest installment to the Sonic Racing series, but people have managed to find interesting clues when looking into the game.

The most prominent clue that people were able to find was from SEGA Asia, in which it hold a very interesting description not only within browser searches, but also in the trailer uploaded in the SEGA Asia English YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/O9v-hITwUmU

The description read as follows...

"Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, the latest entry in the beloved series of SEGA racers.

Drift Across Dimensions! 

Race across land, sea, air, space, and time in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!"

The description has yet to confirm anything, but if this is true, then that could mean that the transform mechanics from Sonic & All-Atars Racing Transformed may be making a comeback.

Also, racing across "TIME" & "SPACE". Interesting pieces of information to put in an already interesting description.

Even if we know very little of this game at this time, there are two things that this game desperately needs.

With Sonic Racing CrossWorlds on the way, racing games have as much as 30 to 50+ racers, and the recent announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 & a new installment of the Mario Kart series...

...Sonic Racing CrossWorlds needs...

1.) A very large variety of tracks, battle arenas, and environments.

AND...

2.) Most importantly - A VERY HUGE ROSTER OF CHARACTERS!

Team Sonic Racing was disappointingly lacking when it came to the character roster, having only 15 characters.

That's over 5 less than the roster in Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing.

10 to 15 less than the roster of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (especially in the Steam Version).

And most depressingly 35+ less than the rosters of Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled AND Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pass.

To make up for the lackluster roster in Team Sonic Racing, and to maybe rival the rosters of CTR: N-F and MK8DX...

...Sonic Racing CrossWorlds will need a VERY HUGE roster of characters.

And with not many Sonic characters that can reach 50, this may be where the aspects of TIME and SPACE come into play.

We may not only be dealing with the universe of the Main Sonic series (including characters from IDW comics like Tangle, Whisper, and Jewel), but we may also be dealing with Time Periods of said universe like Tikal's time period & the Space Colony ARK 50 years ago; Space - as in a Sonic Multiverse spanning multiple dimensions (in other words, other media of the Sonic franchise); a combination of both time & space; and maybe even the return of SEGA All-Stars.

So with all that said, here's my wish list on who I'd love to see playable in Sonic Racing CrossWorlds.

 

Returning Racers:
- Sonic
- Tails
- Knuckles
- Amy
- Big
- Vector
- Shadow
- Rouge
- Omega
- Blaze
- Silver
- Dr. Eggman
- Metal Sonic

New Racers:
- Cream & Cheese (esp. since Cream piloted a battle spacecraft in Sonic X)
- Vanilla & Chocolate
- Ariem
- Charmy
- Espio
- Jet
- Wave
- Storm
- Tangle
- Whisper
- Jewel
- Lanolin
- Sage
- Infinite
- Lah
- Su
- Wu
- Elise
- Dodon Pa
- Professor Victoria
- Etc.

New Racers via "TIME":
- Tikal
- Chaos
- Maria
- Professor Gerald
- Mephiles
- Classic Sonic
- Classc Tails
- Classic Amy
- Classic Knuckles
- Classic Eggman
- Mighty
- Ray
- Trip
- Fang
- Bark
- Bean
- Etc.

 

New Racers via "SPACE":
- Sticks (Sonic Boom)
- Nine (Sonic Prime)
- Thorn Rose (Sonic Prime)
- Knuckles the Dread (Sonic Prime)
- Chaos Sonic / Grim Sonic (Sonic Prime)
- Etc.

New Racers via "TIME & SPACE":
- Cosmo (Sonic X)
- Molly (Sonic X)
- Chris (Sonic X)
- Helen (Sonic X)
- Frances (Sonic X)
- Danny (Sonic X)
- Eggman Nega
- Etc.

SEGA All Stars:
- Ulala (Space Channel 5)
- Pudding (Space Channel 5)
- Billy Hatcher (Billy Hatcher)
- Rolly Roll (Billy Hatcher)
- Aiai (Super Monkey Ball)
- Meemee (Super Monkey Ball)
- Beat (Jet Set Radio)
- Gum (Jet Set Radio)
- NiGHTS (NiGHTS)
- Reala (NiGHTS)
- Zobiko (Curien Mansion)
- Zobio (Curien Mansion)
- Jacky Bryant (Street Fighter)
- Ryo Hazuki (Shenmue)
- Vyse (Skies of Arcadia)
- AGES
- Etc.

Characters I do NOT necessarily want to see return, but won't mind if they do:
- Chao (Nothing against the Chao, but Cream is indefinitely better in terms of Team Rose representation)
- Zavok 

Now all the above listed characters are not final. They're only my hopes for who I want to see playable in Sonic Racing CrossWorlds.

We'll have to wait for more information regarding this game, but until then, hopefully SEGA keeps in mind of Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled & Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's rosters...

...and makes Sonic Racing CrossWorlds fun (and indefinitely superior to Team Sonic Racing) by having a large variety of tracks and environments, and most importantly - a VERY HUGE roster of characters.

Keep on going fast! ^v^