Sonic Racing Crossworlds is the following mainline installment in Sega’s in style kart racing franchise. The Mario Kart-like racing sport is about to launch later this 12 months and can embrace the roster of characters you’d anticipate, like Sonic himself, Tails, Dr. Robotnik, and uh…SpongeBob SquarePants? Wait a minute.
Sure, in response to quite a few and really authentic-looking leaks from an X account recognized solely as Insider, SpongeBob in addition to characters from Minecraft and Avatar: The Final Airbender will probably be playable in Sonic Racing Crossworlds by way of DLC. We don’t know the way a lot the DLC will value or when it will likely be launched, however based mostly on gameplay, screenshots, and even inside paperwork posted by Insider, it looks like Sonic Racing Crossworlds goes to be chockablock with crossover characters, karts, and even tracks.
Within the new leaks, we will see inside paperwork that point out that varied crossover tracks may even be out there as DLC. One observe is about within the TMNT universe and may have us driving by way of sewers and New York Metropolis whereas encountering characters from the franchise, together with Tremendous Fly. In one other leak, Insider shared video of the SpongeBob SquarePants-inspired stage that features Bikini Backside places just like the Krusty Krab.
Kotaku has contacted Sega for extra details about the DLC characters and leaks. Non-Sonic characters have appeared in earlier Sonic racing video games, together with Staff Fortress 2 mercs and extra. However this appears an all-new scale.
In keeping with Insider, the footage displaying off SpongeBob racing on a surfboard comes from an earlier construct of the sport and isn’t consultant of the ultimate product. That additionally explains why SpongeBob is utilizing Sonic’s icon, and a number of the lacking audio and efficiency points. How Insider received their fingers on it’s unknown.
After all, till Sega formally broadcasts any of this, this might all nonetheless crumble, or a few of this content material won’t ever see the sunshine of day. Nonetheless, the leaks appear to point that Sega is closely invested in growing this crossover content material. It appears very possible that within the close to future, SpongeBob, Sonic, and Alex from Minecraft will probably be racing one another within the sewers of TMNT. Slowly, all the pieces merges collectively as we march to our gray goo popular culture future. Thrilling occasions.
Sonic Racing Crossworlds is launching someday later this 12 months for PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, Change, and PC.
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