This would have received more stars from me if the game weren't so buggy and hard to play on the kinect. The concept is really neat, and would be so much fun if the controls weren't so bad. It's almost unplayable at times since the kinect won't pick up on what you're doing.

Great game, kids love it on Kinect

We don't mind admitting that of all the early Kinect games, Sonic Free Riders was among those that we wanted to work the most. Conceptually, the device and game are a good match, with the former offering gamers the chance to mimic controlling an actual hoverboard and the latter providing a sense of...

Our friends over at Sega provided a reviewable copy of Sonic Free Riders, which is awesome. The downside is we were working with Microsoft trying to find out where our Kinect Sensor unit was. Suffice to say I scraped together the funds to purchase a Kinect Sensor so we could play Sonic Free Riders.

Purchased videogame for son. Great transaction, came as expected.

Sonic Free Riders looked like one of the most promising Kinect launch titles. It's got everything to make full use of Kinect: a "Back to the Future" hoverboard, fun characters from the Sonic series, the possibility to jump, duck and dive, race against time or other opponents, and all of that...

Now at this point, I'd go into detail as to what the game's about, but I really can't get that excited about it for reasons that will become very much apparent, so I'm just going to sum up the press blurb which was essentially: "For the first time use full-motion body control to twist and turn your...

bought this for my kids and they played it for the first couple of weeks non stop. Now it just and sits gathering dust and other games are played instead off this.

Missing that key ingredient. Being one of the first titles for a new technology can […]

+ Great track design; + Plethora of content

Motion controls feel off; Clunky menu system; Terrible voice acting

Sonic is back. For better or worse.