Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing around the House of the Dead

by JC Fletcher { Oct 30th 2009 at 8:00PM }

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is slowly absorbing the entire Sega catalog into one mascot racing universe. The latest franchise to be co-opted is The House of the Dead, whose Curien Mansion is revealed as a track in a new, spooky Halloween trailer (after the break). We can't be sure, but we think we also caught glimpses of a zombie appearing both as a driver and a vehicle.

This zombie is the second appearance of the walking dead in All-Stars Racing. The first, of course, is the Shenmue franchise.

Tags: sega, sonic-and-sega-all-stars-racing, the-house-of-the-dead

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 30th 2009 8:09PM

You can't hurt me, Joystiq. I'm used to companies not finishing franchises. Shenmue, KotOR, Battlefront, it's all happened already. I don't care anymore. *sniff*.

Aerothorn @ Oct 31st 2009 5:00AM

To be fair, neither KOTOR nor Battlefront really qualify as "unfinished stories" in the way that Shenmue does.

Marius @ Oct 30th 2009 8:14PM

Wow G4 is full of douches

Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 30th 2009 8:18PM

Is this because of the constant ads? Or just /off topic?

Marius @ Oct 30th 2009 8:22PM

the ads, why does a website advertise on a competitor's website

Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 30th 2009 8:24PM

They probably pay an ad agency, who didn't see the conflict in it.

Anthology @ Oct 30th 2009 9:50PM

Have you watched G4 recently?
I tried to sit through the Free Running World Championship, but the commercials in between the segments were like a full five minutes!

Sandmonkey @ Oct 30th 2009 8:34PM

I don't think this game is for me :/

Extinction @ Oct 30th 2009 8:38PM

Now why hasnt nintendo, the king of franchise milking done the same thing with mario kart?

Matias @ Oct 31st 2009 9:34AM

Becasue they already have mario kart?

Extinction @ Oct 31st 2009 3:02PM

You're an idiot.

Mario Kart doesn't take games outside the mario license like Super Smash Bros did.
They should put Link/Zelda, Kirby, Samus, etc in it.

Space @ Oct 31st 2009 6:17PM

give it a month I'm sure nintendo will announce it.

Josh @ Nov 1st 2009 1:46PM

Because It's Mario Kart not NIntendo Kart.

MT @ Oct 30th 2009 8:41PM

Another sega crapfest

Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 30th 2009 8:56PM

Right. Because Valkyria Chronicles was a crapfest, and Condemned was a crapfest, and Bayonetta...

WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 30th 2009 10:13PM

Don't Forget Virtua Fighter 5, Phantasy star zero and portable and the incoming piece of shits known as Bayonetta, Alpha Protocol, Alien vs Predator etc..

Sega hate is so 2006.

Massmass @ Oct 30th 2009 10:24PM

How sweet of you to ignore all other Sega games to make your point... BTW, only Valkyria Chronicles was made by Sega. There is a slight, but critical distinction.

Their track record is awful collectively and their spin-offs have been even worse. This might be ok in the end and I'm all for hoping for the best out of every game made, but you can't blame everyone for not having faith in the meantime with their collective history.

ManekiNeko @ Oct 31st 2009 9:54PM

WINterfang: Man, I hated Sega when they dropped the Dreamcast back in 2001. I was drinking the haterade way before it was cool.

(Actually, it was pretty cool back then too. I stand corrected.)

MrAlex @ Oct 30th 2009 8:49PM

Heads Up Joystiq I just got a code for a GoW3 demo in my inbox from playstation, just thought you might want to know.

Art @ Oct 30th 2009 9:38PM

glad you got a code.

MrAlex @ Oct 31st 2009 2:34PM

sorry, I thought this was news, must have missed it. I wasn't bragging or anything.

MrAlex @ Oct 31st 2009 2:36PM

I see it now, at the bottom of the collectors edition post, my bad.

Anti-Villian @ Oct 30th 2009 9:36PM

This game looks good, why the hate?

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Oct 30th 2009 9:37PM

This game is getting me more and more interested.
Hoping we see some third party characters.

And like other's have said why hasn't nintendo done something like this?
Rather than mario kart why not something like Super Smash Bros Kart
(Shitty name I know just go with it) would be cool to be racing as samus agaisn't mario, link and other Nintendo charcaters.

SoshiKitai @ Oct 31st 2009 2:25AM

Because they know you'll pay for it without involving all the other characters.

...and it'd get rid of all the "Mario" feel that everyone loves of the Kart series.

Orion @ Oct 30th 2009 11:34PM

I'll buy this the day of it's release if a playable "character" is the Daytona USA Gallop car.....I'll settle for the Castrol Celica from Sega Rally :)

Art @ Oct 31st 2009 1:19AM

Looks interesting but I'll wait for a review or maybe rent it next year. Still if Sega has DLC like characters from its other franchises like maybe Streets of Rage, Nights, Vectorman, Golden Axe, etc even third party companies like Namco's Pacman would be cool.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 1st 2009 12:23AM

I would love to play as Jack from Sega's Madworld, I thought the racing segment of that game was awesome but hugely under developed.

killdash9 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:00AM

I wonder if this game will have Ecco . . . Ecco . . . ecco . . . ecco. . . .

OmegaNemesis28 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:41AM

lol I saw the Hydras from House of the Dead 2. Those were my favorite boss(es) ever.

OmegaNemesis28 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:41AM

in house of the dead that is.

Chris @ Oct 31st 2009 7:42AM

Why does Sonic have a car when he can run faster than the speed of sound......

juliusrose13 @ Oct 31st 2009 12:29PM

Sonic has a car because he likes the sense of Competition.

SoshiKitai @ Oct 31st 2009 2:25PM

Because people in the higher-ups debated about this...
People originally wanted Sonic to have no car, but... I forgot who it was, complained that it would be unfair.

Not sure in which direction he meant that, but I see it as: If you can bump other characters with your car... bumping into Sonic would just mean running him over.

Space @ Oct 31st 2009 6:21PM

maybe sonic is tired of running. why do you always have to push him so hard?

ManekiNeko @ Oct 31st 2009 9:55PM

It's not like he hasn't driven before. Remember Sonic Drift on the Game Gear?

...

Oh yeah, probably not.

DBuck_Eye @ Oct 31st 2009 9:58AM

I still think that the best zombie driving game will forever be the seventh mission in the Simpsons: Hit and Run. God that game rocked.

Themariohenri @ Oct 31st 2009 1:46PM

Sonic is my name,driving in a car is my game

Tim @ Oct 31st 2009 6:00PM

Sakura Taisen is STILL missing... in America, SEGA!

Kaneda Jones @ Nov 1st 2009 3:51AM

based on the still alone it looks like its Zobiko and Zobio from The House of the Dead EX.. the cutest undead romance since.. well, ever?

man that game gets no recognition. :P

http://www.siliconera.com/2008/12/19/the-house-of-the-dead-ex-a-zombie-arcade-game-designed-for-a-date/

Benji @ Nov 1st 2009 10:46AM

I want Ulala to be confirmed already..

NeoMahi @ Nov 1st 2009 7:44PM

Does it have Sketch Turner??? If it doesn't have Vectorman, Sketch Turner, Ristar, Alex Kidd... It doesn't have SEGA's Mascots.

rikthagreat @ Nov 2nd 2009 1:31PM

ur forgetting chakan the forever man although i dont think that was sega's

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