- Can skid across water and soar in the sky
- Sumo had come up with their ideas before Mario Kart 7 was revealed
- Tweaks in handling when you go underwater
- Fully-fledged flight model for air segments
- Guide your winged-vehicle through floating boost gates
- Handling is comparable to Mario Kart and OutRun, but with a little more heft
- Can track off waves for a boost on occasion
- Watch out for whirlpools that can slow you down or drag you under
- Changes in the track as you race
- Shortcuts and alternative routes
- Panzer Dragoon-themed course included
- Spend a lot of time in the air for this stage
- Monkey Ball track: choice of winding, narrow, barrier-free strips of track up above, or the wider stretches below that are slower but easier to negotiate
- One shortcut sends you leaping onto a numbered target from the Money Target mini-game
- Sumo needed permission from SEGA Japan to include water for the Monkey Ball stage
- Improvements in graphics
- Composer Richard Jacques is working on the game
- Remix of classic SEGA tunes
- Commentator from the first game is gone
- Announcer only interjects to share the most important race information
- Crowd will cheer, chant for their favorite racer
- Sonic drives his Koenigsegg-style supercar
- Team is trying to make the vehicles cooler
- Skies of Arcadia’s Vyse is in the game, has a vehicle based on the Delphinus
- Golden Axe’s Gilius Thunderhead is in the game, has a Ray Harryhausen-esque bronze creature that morphs into a turtle and an eagle
- Thunderhead was plan...

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