Rare All-Star Karting

Rare All-Star Karting is a 2007 racing game for the Xbox 360 and is developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios. 
== History ==
in 1997, Rare made Diddy Kong Racing, which led to Rare developing a sequel of Diddy Kong Racing on the N64 but due to Rare's deal with various companies and issues between Nintendo and Rare, which led to Nintendo selling Rare and making Diddy Kong Racing become the last game Rare made with Nintendo as upcoming projects moved to the previously-new Sega Dreamcast. and following their partnership with Sega, Rare decided to turn the Diddy Kong Racing sequel to a new game titled Banjo-Racing, which includes Rare's original characters and Banjo and Kazooie as the protagonists, but that was scrapped as it was renamed to Sonic Kart Racing which had Sonic The Hedgehog as the protagonist instead but still kept the Rare characters. Then, following Sega's departure from the console market to become a third party publisher, Sonic Kart Racing was again, scrapped, but the idea was brought back later on after Sega released Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing, but on Rare's side of things, Rare's racing game project was brought over to Microsoft's Xbox console under the name of Rare All-Stars Karting. and so, as the original Xbox did not handle a racing game, it was later moved to Xbox 360 with its release date being on 2007. 
== Characters ==