

However, during the final race, Wave activates a bomb she planted on Sonic's board, allowing Jet to win the World Grand Prix and the Chaos Emeralds. Race after race, Team Sonic continues to defeat their opponents. When Sonic realizes that the entrants are the Rogues, Team Sonic enters as well. The next day, Team Sonic sees Eggman on a digital billboard, adverising for the World Grand Prix. After Knuckles punches Storm off his board, Sonic takes it and chases Jet, but he escapes. While tracking a Chaos Emerald one night, Team Sonic realizes that the Emerald was stolen by a group of thieves called the Babylon Rogues. The Babylon Story also includes an epilogue. Both stories are only told from the point of view of the specified characters and Omochao. all of the stories start differently, and eventually overlap. This game splits the story into two halves, the Heroes Story (Team Sonic), and the Babylon Story (Babylon Rogues).

This was the last Sonic the Hedgehog game for the Nintendo GameCube and Microsoft Xbox worldwide, and the last Sonic the Hedgehog game released for PS2 in Japan. A sequel to Sonic Riders, entitled Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, was released in 2008 for the Wii and PlayStation 2, followed by the Kinect-enabled game Sonic Free Riders for the Xbox 360 in 2010. This game introduces five new playable characters, the Babylon Rogues and the E-10000 series. For a short while, the Microsoft Xbox version of the game was released with a free Sonic X DVD. The game was released to start off the 15th anniversary of the release of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is the fourth racing game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, preceded by Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic R. Sonic Riders ( ソニックライダーズ, Sonikku Raidāzu ?) is a video game spin-off produced by Sega and developed by Sonic Team in cooperation with Now Production, for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.
