I've put a little extra something to spice things up! I call it the 'EX World Grand Prix'! A tournament to see who's the best of the best with Extreme Gear !
— Dr. Eggman , Sonic Riders
The racers prepare to begin the final stage of the EX World Grand Prix at Sand Ruins .
The World Grand Prix , also referred to as the EX World Grand Prix , is an Extreme Gear tournament hosted by Dr. Eggman in Sonic Riders and Sonic Free Riders . It is a competition for Extreme Gear riders around the world to race against each other to see who is the fastest on Extreme Gear. They are mainly involved in the storylines of these two games.
Game appearances
Sonic Riders
The EX World Grand Prix first appeared in Sonic Riders . The known competitors were Team Heroes (Sonic the Hedgehog , Miles "Tails" Prower , Knuckles the Echidna and Amy Rose ), Babylon Rogues (Jet the Hawk , Wave the Swallow and Storm the Albatross ) and several E-10000G robots. By ensuring the Babylon Rogues ' participation and charging each contestant a Chaos Emerald as the price of admission, Eggman successfully manages to bring the emeralds into proximity with Jet the Hawk 's ancient family heirloom: a cubic control key to surface their ancient home-world, Babylon Garden . After Jet wins the tournament due to Wave the Swallow sabotaging Sonic 's Extreme Gear, the Emeralds activate the cube and Babylon Garden rises up from beneath the dunes of Sand Ruins . The doctor intends to obtain the treasure of Babylon Garden which is revealed to be the Magic Carpet .
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
While the storyline of Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity did not take place in a World Grand Prix, it was mentioned, in Team Heroes' Story mode , by Sonic saying that he will see Jet at the next World Grand Prix.
In Normal Race, there is a gameplay mode entitled "World Grand Prix" where one or two player(s) race through six courses of the two teams' storyline (Heroes Cup and Babylon Cup) with six other computer-controlled opponents. Each competitor earns points after each race which is based on the racing position they finished in; a higher placing results in higher points. At the end of the World Grand Prix mode; the player(s) are awarded a bonus amount of Rings based on their overall position of the tournament. Notably, the computer-controlled opponents use their character's default Extreme Gear but the player(s) can choose whatever Extreme Gear they would like to use. During World Grand Prix mode, the player cannot restart the course or the mode via the Pause Menu.
Sonic Free Riders
The World Grand Prix returns in Sonic Free Riders , serving as the main setting of the game's plot. Instead of just two teams, Eggman pits two more teams in this World Grand Prix tournament. While the competitors settle their old rivalries and/or disputes by racing all along with each other, Eggman's motives in the tournament is to capture the racing data of all of the competitors to create the "fastest Extreme Gear" using Team Dark's new member, E-10000B . Much later on, when Eggman races against the competitors on this Gear, the doctor loses, claiming that the data he collected "didn't help him at the slightest" and E-10000B reveals itself to be Metal Sonic who then challenges his organic doppelgänger to a race. Sonic beats Metal Sonic and Metal Sonic flees from the scene. Since Eggman didn't have any actual prizes to distribute to the winners, the tournament comes to a close with no confirmed winner but everyone agreed that they had a fun time.
Courses
Sonic Riders
Sonic Free Riders
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Heroes Cup
Babylon Cup
Trivia
In the World Grand Prix mode of Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity , Mobius Strip is not playable despite being playable in the Story mode. This maybe because the Heroes' storyline only had six courses as opposed to the Babylon's storyline's seven.
Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) · Tails · Knuckles · Amy · Jet · Wave · Storm · Eggman · Cream · Rouge · Shadow · AiAi · Nights · Ulala · E-10000G · E-10000R
Non-playable characters
Babylon Guardian · Jet's father · Omochao · Stolen
Courses
Main
Metal City /Night Chase · Splash Canyon /Red Canyon · Egg Factory /Ice Factory · Green Cave /White Cave · Sand Ruins /Dark Desert · Babylon Garden /Sky Road · Digital Dimension /Babylon Guardian · Sega Carnival /Sega Illusion
Survival
Dual Towers · Snow Valley · Space Theater
Moves/techniques
Air Ride · Air Slide · Attacks · Grinding · Kick Dash · Super Sonic Boost · Tornado · Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Air Pit · Automatic Trail · Barricade · Bomb · Car · Catapult · Dash Panel · Dash Ring · Grind Rail · Slipstream · Trick Zone
Items
Air · Item Box (Air , Explosion , High Speed , Invincible , Magnetic Shield , Random , Rings , Speed Down ) · Ring
Extreme Gear
Accelerator · Access · Advantage F , Advantage P , Advantage S · Air Broom · Air Tank · Auto-Slider · BANANA · Beginner · Berserker · Blue Star · Blue Star II · Cannonball · Channel5 · Chaos Emerald · Cover F , Cover P , Cover S · Darkness · Destroyer · E-gearG · E-gearR · E-Rider · Faster · Fastest · Gambler · Grinder · Hang-On · Heavy Bike · High Booster · Hovercraft · Legend · Light Board · Magic Carpet · Night Sky · Omnitempus · Opa Opa · Pink Rose · Power Gear · Powerful Gear · Red Rock · Rengoku · Slide Booster · Smile · Speed Balancer · Super Hang-On · Temptation · The Crazy · Trap Gear · Turbo Star · Type-J · Type-S · Type-W · Yellow Tail
Voice actors
English
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet , Shadow ) · Amy Palant (Tails ) · Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) · Bella Hudson (Wave , Babylon Computer) · Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) · Mike Pollock (Eggman ) · Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) · Rebecca Honig (Cream ) · Maddie Blaustein (E-10000G , E-10000R , Babylon Guardian ) · Liza Jacqueline (Omochao ) · Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) · Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Japanese
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) · Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) · Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) · Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) · Chie Nakamura (Wave , Babylon Computer) · Kenji Nomura (Storm , Babylon Guardian ) · Taeko Kawata (Amy ) · Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) · Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) · Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Music
Songs
"Catch Me If You Can " · "Sonic Speed Riders "
Albums
Speedbeats Grand Prix: Sonic Riders Original Soundtrack
Other
Air Tank · Babylon Garden · Babylon Rogues' ship · Babylonians · Bashōsen · Chaos Control · Chaos Emerald · Fly Type , Power Type , Speed Type · Eggman Empire · Emerald Detector · Freeze · Key to Babylon Garden · Loop · Mission Mode · Rank · Robotnik Corp. · Sonic Riders: BradyGames Official Strategy Guide · Shop · Sonic Extreme · Sonic Extreme (Game Boy Advance) · World Grand Prix · Time Attack
Main article | Scripts (Heroes , Babylon ) | Staff | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery
Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Jet | Wave | Storm | Eggman | Cream | Rouge | Shadow | Silver | Blaze | SCR-GP | Amigo | Nights | Billy Hatcher | SCR-HD
Non-playable characters
Master Core: ABIS
Courses/Fields
Main
Megalo Station /Nightside Rush | Botanical Kingdom /Snowy Kingdom | MeteorTech Premises /MeteorTech Sparkworks | Aquatic Capital /Tempest Waterway | Gigan Rocks /Gigan Device | Crimson Crater /Security Corridor | Astral Babylon /Mobius Strip | '80s Boulevard /'90s Boulevard
Survival Battle
Gravity Pit | Labyrinth | Square Quartet
Survival Ball
MeteorTech Arsenal | Botanical Cave | Megalo Junction
Moves/ techniques
Air Ride | Attacks | Gravity Control | Gravity Dive | Grinding | Meteor Burst | Slide Turn | Super Sonic Boost | Trick
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barricade | Car | Catapult | Crusher | Dash Panel | Dash Ring | Grind Rail | Trick Zone | Wall Route | Wide spring
Items
General
Gravity Ring | Item Box (Attack , Colorball , Explosion , GP Boost , High Speed , Magnetic Barrier , Missile , Parts Lock , Rings , Shield , Speed Down ) | Ring | Time item
Gear Parts
Air Ride | Angel/Devil | Attack Time UP | Auto Wall-Run | Base Stats UP | BGM Change | Bike | Durability UP | GC Boost UP | Ghost | GP Gain UP | GP Gauge UP | GP Usage UP | Grind | Item Rank +1 | Magnetic Barrier | Max Speed UP | Parts Lock | Ring Cap UP | Starting Speed UP | Status Trap | Tank | Throttle | Trick Rank +1 | Vision Trap | Wheel | Yacht
Extreme Gear
Board
Airship | Beginner | Black Shot | Blue Star | Chaos Emerald | Faster | Fastest | Flame Lance | Gambler | GC Booster | GC Master | GP Accumulator | G Shot | Hyperdrive | Legend | Light Board | Mag | Night Sky | Omnitempus | Pink Rose | Power Egg | Psychic Wave | Rainbow | Red Rock | Rhythm Machine | Road Star | Skill Booster | Shooting Star | Smile | Temptation | The Crazy | Throttle | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Untouchable | Wheel Custom | Wind Star | Yellow Tail
Skate
Advantage S | Cover S | Rail Linker | Shinobi | Wanted
Bike
Advantage P | Cover P | E-Rider | Hang-On | Master Off-Road | Reserve Tank
Air Ride
Advantage F | Cover F | Angel • Devil | Kunoichi
Yacht
Bingo Star | Magic Broom | Wind Catcher
Wheel
Big Bang | GP Tank | Money Crisis
Music
Songs
"Catch Me If You Can " | "Un-Gravitify "
Albums
Zero Gravity Tracks: Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet , Shadow ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Mother computer ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Pete Capella (Silver ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Andrew Paull (SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Mother computer ) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Other
Ark of the Cosmos | Babylon Garden | Babylon Rogues' ship | Babylonians | Bashōsen | Black Market | Crimson Tower | Eggman Empire | Gravity Band | Gravity Point | Loop | Monopole | Mother computer | Slipstream | Rank | Time Attack | World Grand Prix
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Main article | Scripts (Introduction , Team Heroes , Team Babylon , Team Dark , Team Rose , Final Race ) | Staff | Gallery
Playable characters
Team Heroes
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles
Team Babylon
Jet | Wave | Storm
Team Dark
Shadow | Rouge | E-10000B
Team Rose
Amy | Cream | Vector
Misc.
Blaze | Eggman | E-10000G | Silver | Metal Sonic | Xbox Live Avatar
Non-playable characters
Cheese | E-10000 A | E-10000 C | E-10000 N | E-10000 O | E-10000 S | E-10000 P | E-10000 Y | Omochao
Courses
Dolphin Resort | Rocky Ridge | Frozen Forest | Metropolis Speedway | Magma Rift | Forgotten Tomb | Final Factory | Metal City
Moves/Techniques
Air Ride | Attacks | Grinding | Kick Dash | Super Sonic Boost | Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barricade | Bobsled | Car | Catapult | Dash Ring | Grind Rail | Minecart
Items
General
Air | Item Box (Air , Bowling Strike , Free Throw , Octo-Boost , Octo-Ink , Question , Ring Can , Rings , Special Item , Soda Rocket , Target Torpedo , Tee Shot ) | Ring
Gear Parts
Air Plus | Air Ride Skill | Air Saver | Big Air | Cornering UP | Durability UP | Extra Air | Grind Skill | Invisible | Item Lock: Air | Item Lock: Rings | Max Speed UP | Music Change 1 | Music Change 2 | Power Skill | Rapid Dash | Rapid Stream | Ring Eater | Start Speed UP | Trick Boost
Extreme Gear
Angel • Devil | Auto-Slider | Avatar-F | Avatar-M | Beginner | Black Shot | Blue Star | Chaos Emeralds | E-Gear | E-Rider | Explosion | Fastest | Flame Lance | Fortress | Gambler | Hang-On | Hard-Boiled | High Booster | Legend | Metal Star | Omnitempus | Pink Rose | Potential | Professional | Psychic Wave | Red Rock | Reserve Tank | Smile | Steel | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Wanted | Yellow Tail
English voice actors
Roger Craig Smith (Sonic ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman ) | Kate Higgins (Tails , Wave ) | Travis Willingham (Knuckles , Storm ) | Mike Mycheck (Jet ) | Kirk Thornton (Shadow ) | Karen Strassman (Rouge ) | Wally Wingert (E-10000B , E-10000G ) | Cindy Robinson (Amy ) | Michelle Ruff (Cream ) | Keith Silverstein (Vector ) | Quinton Flynn (Silver ) | Laura Bailey (Blaze , Omochao )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave ) | Kenji Nomura (Storm ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Music
Songs
"Free " | "Theme of Dolphin Resort " | "Theme of Rocky Ridge " | "Theme of Metropolis Speedway "
Albums
Break Free: Sonic Free Riders Original Soundtrack
Other
Air Gauge | Bat Cracker | Bashōsen | Relay Race | Rank | Time Attack | World Grand Prix
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