The game's gameplay has a mix of Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure and Sonic Rivals 2. It is mostly like Sonic Rush. But like Sonic Rush Adventure, it has air tricks, extra boost, and it has free mode. The game's graphics is mostly from the Sonic Advance trilogy. Free mode's gameplay is from Sonic Adventure. Chao Garden is also in this game once you clear the game with Cream or finish the game in easy mode. After the end of each level, they will show pictures and textures, like they did to Megaman X5 and X6.