Earlier this month, Sega confirmed Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds visitor characters akin to Hatsune Miku, Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza), Joker (Persona 5), and even Steve, Alex, and Creeper from Minecraft. However the visitor characters don’t cease there. Sega has now introduced a Nickelodeon collaboration that brings SpongeBob SquarePants to the observe — and teased Avatar and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters down the road.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a kart racer filled with Sega characters and as such celebrates the corporate’s historical past. As well as, big-name visitor characters are serving to to flesh out the roster of racers. As a part of that, those that purchase the Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Digital Deluxe Version get the Season Move, which incorporates the Nickelodeon content material in addition to the not too long ago introduced Minecraft characters, autos, and tracks, characters from the Netflix sequence, Sonic Prime, and two extra yet-to-be-announced collaborations.

The trailer beneath reveals off SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star racing the Patty Wagon, a automobile formed like a Krabby Patty from the SpongeBob SquarePants sequence, throughout the Bikini Backside observe (Bikini Backside is the principle setting within the SpongeBob SquarePants sequence).

Sega has mentioned CrossWorlds will function an enormous roster of over playable characters, should you embody DLC. Characters you’d anticipate to see, akin to Sonic, Dr. Eggman, Knuckles, Shadow, and Tails are current and proper, however now you possibly can add the likes of SpongeBob SquarePants into the combo.

CrossWorlds is in fact going up in opposition to Swap 2 unique kart sport Mario Kart World, which has to this point resisted including visitor characters from outdoors the Nintendo pantheon. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is about for launch on each the Swap and the Swap 2, so it seems like we’ll be set for some old school Mario vs. Sonic kart racing rivalry when Sega’s effort launches in September.

IGN not too long ago went hands-on with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and got here away impressed. “It’s a vibe,” we mentioned, “and one which I’ve loved and can look ahead to drifting via.”

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