The development director of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing has told ONM that the forthcoming Wii racer is more accessible than Mario Kario Kart Wii when it comes to drifting.
"The people who use drifting on Mario Kart are the smallest minority," said Sumo's Craig Duncan. "I play Mario Kart and I know how to drift but I wouldn't say I used it as a player.
"If you play Mario Kart online and you look at the hardest of the hardcore players - they all use drift and I'd imagine 95% of the people don't even realise how to drift in Mario Kart or know what it is so when we were developing our game system we wanted a very easy and accessible drift system where you could hold the accelerator and hold the drift and put the car sideways around bends and get boosts from it.
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"I think our drift system is a lot more accessible than Mario Kart so I think you can learn and get drift by playing either a tutorial or a race mission. But it takes a lot longer to master drift so we do have depth for the hardcore racers, it's got to be accessible and it's got to have depth."
While admitting that he is a big Mario Kart Wii fan, Duncan also said that his game is "faster and more frenetic than Mario Kart."
We'll see how the two games compare when Sonic And Sega All-Stars Racing is released on 26 February.
