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Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, known as Sonic Toon: Fire & Ice in Japan, is a 2016 action-adventure platform game developed by Sanzaru Games and published by Sega. It is part of the Sonic Boom spin-off franchise of…

73 27 September 2016 ESRB E

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is an adventure developed by Sanzaru Games, released 27 September 2016 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is an adventure game developed by Sanzaru Games and released in 2016. It was published by Sega Europe. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Dr. Eggman has discovered the supercharged element ragnium on the mythical Island of Ragna Rock. He mines it as a fuel source, piping off the messy by-products of the operation to adjacent islands, creating fire and ice gameplay. Using this fuel to power his ultra-fast bot racers is his latest plan to discredit his eternal rival Sonic, but backed by ragnium, fire and ice, a robot army, and D-Fekt, an unflinchingly powerful henchman, this time Dr. Eggman just may succeed. Sonic and friends must re-claim each island by destroying enemies, vanquishing the Island Defender, winning rival races, and reversing the flow of the elemental tubes. It all culminates with an epic battle on the Island of…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is the 313th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sega Genesis Ultimate Portable Game Player in 2016. Its critic score of 73 is 2 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice launched on 27 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3 and Mafia III. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3, Mafia III.

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When did Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice come out?
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice was released on 27 September 2016 for Nintendo 3DS.

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