Riders Brings in 3 new characters, who are known as the "Babalon Rouges" These characters prove competition to the 3 main characters Which are Sonic, who's rival is "Jet the Hawk" Leader of the Rouges. There just isn't any true enemy's for Sonic anymore. Sonic games after Heroes have continued to go down the Cheesy path, with the "hey let's be good, save the world" attitude.
Sonic Heroes while it still had the awesome voice overs, lacked that sense of story and became something like a cheesy movie.
The Sonic Adventure series had decent story lines and the voice acting was immaculate. The graphic standard blows previous games away, Sonic Riders has lovely clean and clear scenery, the character models are at a higher standard to that of Shadow the hedgehog.which is Sonic Teams most recent failure Most of the new Sonic games have been below what the fans have anticipated. the previous Sonic The Hedgehog Racing games were all even below a poor score! Sonic Riders over comes all the previous Sonic Racing games which were seen on Sega Saturn and Gamegear. When i first heard about A new Sonic R type game, i had my doubts.