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ModNation Racers

Everything in moderation.

Well, I managed to resist it. In all the hours I spent toying around with ModNation Racers' fantastic suite of creative tools I restrained myself from making a single grapheme which even vaguely resembled a set of genitalia. Nor did I arts and crafts any of the Mario Kart characters. I didn't even infringe the copyrights of Batman, Wacky Racers or the Dukes of Hazzard.

Not that information technology's impossible to practice and then - the depth and flexibility of the editors on offer here is more than capable of translating almost any popular character, auto or track into the game's shiny, colourful engine - but to utilize these abilities to imitate merely seemed like a scrap of a waste.

Instead I, a man of express artistic ingenuity, rattled off any number of unique and hit little creations, starting but and progressing to more than subtle, layered designs. These, although lacking the professionalism of the offerings downloadable from the United Front end development team, managed to brand the atrophied creative heart of my encephalon quite chuffed with itself.

Alright. I gave 1 driver a picayune set of boobs. More nipples, really. Hardly noticeable. Wait, I got carried away - and felt actually quite guilty after.

The point is that the track, auto and driver editors of ModNation are incredibly accomplished, in-depth and intuitive to employ, with handy tutorials for avant-garde techniques. Stickers, accessories and parts are unlocked by completing races or sub-objectives, or past gambling collectible tokens on an in-game slot machine, unleashing an almost inexhaustible array of creative possibilities. If you've ever looked at one of those tiny, pricey, vinyl Qee toys and idea you could practise better, then ModNation is the perfect opportunity.

Short-cuts and alternative routes pepper most every track.

Sadly, much similar those absorbing trivial vinyl bears, whilst cars and drivers look good on a shelf, their practical applications are fairly limited. All karts have exactly the same driving model, apart from two sliders allowing the preference of drift versus handling and acceleration over speed. Information technology'due south more of a simplified tuning organization than anything else, so tucked away in menus that I didn't realise it was there until I'd been playing for hours.

Drivers make no deviation to racing skills whatever, and move way as well rapidly to distinguish on the rails, meaning that their appearance is only really observable on the podiums of the modding center or during the beautiful and more often than not amusing cutscenes. Still, art for art's sake and all that, and that's certainly non a negative aspect in itself.

Tracks, of course, are a different story, and the ease with which they can be shared or downloaded is a testament to the PS3'due south improving online structure. Track creation itself is a breeze, dropping players into a track-laying automobile which is only driven around a blank arena, depositing tarmac behind it. These bare bones circuits can and so either be auto-populated with the various on- and off-track accoutrements, or managed down to the very terminal detail, including sun position, weather, surroundings and brusque-cuts. The finer points take some getting the hang of, just the ability to create, test drive and host a race on your very own track within minutes is a very praiseworthy achievement, specially given the restrictions of working with a pad.