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In contrast to the impressive score for Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, it features only 12 tracks and most are not worth their playtime.
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Overall, the Sonic Free Riders soundtrack is a major disappointment. In fact, they're a step back from the Sonic R soundtrack, which is saying something. Try seeing how many repetitions of "Jump It Up", "Hey Hey Hey", and "Oh yeeaah" you can take before you become deranged. More vocal elements are incorporated into "Theme of Metropolis Speedway", but they are even more cheesy and repetitive. When thrown together into a unbalanced mix, the final result is hardly tolerable. No single element is impressive on their own - the beats generic, the banjos obnoxious, and the vocals cringe-worthy - contrary to the great fusions on the Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity soundtrack. Courtesy of new recruit Koji Sakurai, "Theme of Rocky Ridge" is a peculiar blend of electronic beats, country instrumentation, and sampled vocals. The tracks featuring sampled vocals are the most challenging on a stand-alone basis. Sawada has never been a master melodist and, as a result, his attempts to appeal to on a superficial level fall flat here. The childish nature of the lead melodies is likely to turn off most electronica fans - the target audience of the previous Sonic Riders scores - yet their dull writing is unlikely to appeal much to kids either. "Theme of Forgotten Tomb" and "Theme of Frozen Forest" are examples of the latter category and manage to appeal to nobody. While his once cutting-edge guitar riffs and electronic beats are found across the soundtrack, they're used as static forces to propel the focal elements, which are usually sampled vocals or superficial synth leads.
Perhaps the main issue with the Sonic Free Riders soundtrack is that Tomonori Sawada decided to compromise the series' once mature sound to appeal to a younger audience. "Theme of Metal City" and "Theme of Magma Rift" are a little more tolerable - portraying their respective stages fittingly with harder industrial beats - but even these tend to drag on a stand-alone basis. Tracks such as "Theme of Dolphin Resort" don't sustain their large playtimes, when they loop the same generic riffs and beats ad nauseum the monotonous nature is only emphasised by each one bar riff used to supplement the already droning elements. The repetitive elements extend to the stage themes, the meat of the score, too.
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"Start Up Your EX Gear" is the only arrangement of past scores from the series and a mischosen one too as so few new elements are added, the track fails to sustain repetition for twice the length of the original and makes the 'skip' button irresistible. Unfortunately, the background music for the title is rarely impressive either. After the supremacy of "Un-gravity", this track is an enormous disappointment. The vocalist's performance is also more charismatic this time, though the main hook still sounds more laborous than it should do. More impressive is Crush 40's version at the end of the soundtrack, with its harder edge and improved balance. The backing parts, comprising various electronic beats and guitar riffs, adds some motion to the track yet results in a somewhat ugly overall soundscape. The focal line simply doesn't have the attractive and catchy quality required to hook listeners, while the lyrics sound more dreary than uplifting despite focusing on 'wind' and being 'free'. The vocal performance of Chris Madin is rarely compelling here, in part due to the excessive voice manipulation. Jun Senoue's vocal theme for Sonic Free Riders, "Free", is surprisingly bland. Created by Tomonori Sawada, Jun Senoue, and Koji Sakurai, the soundtrack features a range of electronic mixes and vocal themes that lack the charm and creativity of previous scores in the Sonic racing series. Unfortunately, these problems extended to its soundtrack too. Most reviewers agreed that the game was rushed compared to other instalments of the series and left much to be desired in terms of both gameplay and presentation.
Sega attempted to cash in on the launch of the Kinect with the racing game Sonic Free Riders only to flat commercial and critical reception.