Mod Nation Racers

[Fox]

Quote: June 2, 2009 - United Front Games showed up at Sony's E3 2009 press conference to show off what they called a "thoroughly modern take on kart racing." The game, Mod Nation Racers, is a kart racer in Sony's "Play. Create. Share." genre of games. Like LittleBigPlanet the focus is user content. Stylized characters in the style of the vinyl figurines like Mighty Muggs. They're customizable, with mods, or full on outfit changes. The developers showed off a monkey character, as well as a Hellraiser-esque character. The cars are also customizable, and the developers showed off classic style convertible and a pink dune buggy. You can completely customize your racer and their vehicle. They parts are all predefined, so it's fairly similar to how the creating stuff in LBP works, but you can make them a little more unique since they don't have to be a Sackboy. Racing is pretty standard kart racing. Jumps, weapons, boosting and drifting. The style is cartoony, but there's a lot of 3D detail in the environments, character, explosions, etc. The racing is pretty fast and frantic. There's also track creation, done in a nearly realtime way. Players "fly" through the map and the game paints a track behind the car. The thing is really fast, and the developers created a short, simple track in about 10 seconds. The tracks are fully customizable and things like the track surface can be changed much in the same way they're created, so players can decide how much of what surface to use. Environmental controls are also available. Point and click mountain and water creation that alters the track as the player changes the landscape. If you add a mountain the ground gradually builds up, and the track starts to incline to match. You can add trees, add sheep, and other things by "painting" them onto the ground. Players can also change the sunlight settings. The level of customization on this is deeper than any track creation game we've seen for a kart racer. Mod Nation Racers is set to release in 2010.

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This game looks amazing and if I had a video I would not hesitate to show you all. This is an instant buy for me.


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Originally Posted by ratedrko22 Modnation Racers will be having a beta. You can get the beta in the GOTY Edition of LBP.

Quote: Genre: Racing Local Play: 2 Versus Online Play: 12 Versus Exclusively on PlayStation 3 Release Date: TBA 2010 MSRP: $29.99

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[Da_Capt'N]

I loved this!
When they were showing how to create your own track it was great at how easy it was.

Only thing that bummed me out was the 2010 release.

[Zwei]

i cant wait for the release of this game...the simplicity they installed in the custom track feature looks so advanced....i do like the weapons as well....i saw like a 5 seconds of the weapons when they were racing after they created the custom track and i saw the guys using rocket or something....~!

[Cayman]

Yeah, this does look pretty sweet, it's like Trackmania, 10 times as user-friendly. I thought the premises behind LittleBigPlanet seemed cool, and now they've been applied to racing game, sweet! Except I still have to get Blur, Split/Second, and Gran Turismo 5 (which will be the most epic racing game ever made. 800 cars? 90 tracks? 1080p? plz and thx). This looks cool, but Gran Turismo 5 is higher on my list of games I need to buy.

[Jake]

Same here, I can't wait til they release the game also because that game will be so good I will be waiting to see a video for the game just to see if the game is good to get or not because I would just want to know if I should get the game or not because for some reason the videos get you thinking more should I get this game or should I not?

[Pac_cap]

I thought this was absolutely brilliant, looks great fun.

I'm definately getting it.

[Xander]

This was Sony's greatest announcement at their conference.

[DAmwake]

Originally Posted by Xander This was Sony's greatest announcement at their conference.

Second best... the inner fan of Shadow of the Colossus could not let me get over the Last Guardian trailer..

But more on topic, this looks awesome. One of my favorite parts is that they seem to have simplified the level creation alot from LBP. Takes hours upon hours to make a half way decent level in lbp where in this it looks to be minutes. Which is astounding to think about.. LBP has 900k levels even though they take hours to make.. just imagine how many levels this game will have when it takes minutes.

[DrinkDog]

I just watched the ModNation preview.
I pretty much wet myself, the level creation looks beautiful, I can see BIG potential here.

Looks like a great game, watch this space.

[JBate]

When I saw this game I almost died(not really xD). It looks like this game could get very addictive and I personally like games like that. I also am kinda glad it's coming out in 2010 since I probably won't be getting a new PS3 until Christmas.

[dsaxplayr]

oh i saw that at e3 the best thing is the track editor though. i hope they got the controls down and theyre easy. the guy spun outta control on some of those turns.but i know all my time on that game will be spent on making new tracks and racing my friends on them. and if i get really bored ill model em after mario kart tracks or different video games like metroid. they did say there would be lava in this.

[Claus*]

Wow what a game. Great graphics. You can create your own character. But what really stunned me was the graphics, and oh my...the race track editor...wow...how easy it was to create...and with the full game, we can expect more stuff. I saw this on when I downloaded E3 on my PSP...wow...this game for sure, will be one of the greatest games ever made.