As with the mode that lets you tweak your character and ride, the track builder gives you a metric crapton of options to meticulously build your ideal racetrack one square foot of asphalt at a time … or, if you’re the hasty (or lazy) type, you can put together a functional course in five minutes or less. It’s a little bit overwhelming at first: The vast amount of parts and pieces available to you may well make you want to just stick with safely mashing “Random” until you find something that looks cool, but those who want to put in the time to create their own customized character – or to mimic their favorite fictional character – will find the system rewarding.Įqually as rewarding (and far more accessible) is ModNation Racers‘ track builder, which may well be the highlight of the game. Given that the word “Mod” is right there in the title, it shouldn’t be surprising to anyone to learn that ModNation Racers prides itself on how it gives its users the power to mod their racers (and cars) as they see fit.
The true strength of the game, however, lies in the tools it gives users to create their own content. If that were all that ModNation Racers had to offer, it’d be a fairly generic game: entertaining, but hardly worth writing home about. The graphics look fine, particularly in its super-deformed cartoonish style, the controls work well and everything is more-or-less “competent” gameplay-wise. It’s fun, sure, but despite a few new twists – skillful driving fills a meter that you can either use offensively to boost your speed or defensively to shield yourself from attacks – it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. It’s a cartoonish, colorful game where go-karts are blown to pieces by missiles and lasers and powerslide around corners before catching a speed boost to zip right off the huge cross-course jump.
The core of ModNation Racers is a standard, unassuming kart racer that will feel very familiar to anyone who’s ever spent half an hour behind the wheel of a game like Mario Kart. The good news is that the rest of them do get better – and ModNation Racers adds more goodies on top. The bad news is that a few of those problems don’t get any better: The “witty” commentary and dialogue of the announcers is still as groan-inducing as ever whether you’re ten minutes in or ten hours, the story mode always feels a bit ham-handed and pointless, and there is a lot of freaking loading.
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