Review: ModNation Racers on PS3

there Every time I play a new racing game there is always a game I in mind to compare it. This game is Super Mario Kart on Super Nintendo. Although the graphics in games and have been since the release game titles will receive the same level of MSM moved to emulate including new games with the same name against its fun factor in my opinion.
There was some great racing games in recent years, but focus on the realism of the race, not the fun of a racing kart. During the series, including Gran Turismo, Dirt, Project Gotham Racing and Forza push all driving ever higher, the games that facilitate more-fun-than-real-Racing have already been largely take tenders disappointed.
So if ModNation Racers on my street I hope that was filled with equal parts predictable and landed. This was on another bad run-kart racing game, or anything that might be the Mario Kart games challenge?
ModNation need to be observed on a number of different levels. If it were not, it would be like saying that Little Big Planet a great platformer and leave it here. Sun can focus on the core of the first game. This is a racing game, after all, so that the most important thing is how it performs as a simple racing game.
Single-player games are in the form of career mode or quick races. If you experience all of the songs while learning about the mechanics of the game then the career mode want to do is the best place to start. In the early levels, you have the option to choose whether they have exercises. Select only the half of the game a break at crucial moments, some instructions are given, and the game continues. The mechanism is slow explains different races, but never too complex.
Check your kart is very similar to Mario Kart with standard-speed, breaking, turning and drifting. But there is also the training, if you have another happened Kart follow in his wake. The real difference in the game comes from the use of thrust and shield functionality. Your basket has increased in size, which can be filled by driving, drawing, or doing acrobatics while jumping. This impulse can then be used to make your kart go faster for a short time to act, or as a shield for similar periods. With the decisive moments during a race is important that the first line.
At the beginning of a career around you also have access to the pickup in the form of weapons. There are four types of weapons available (boost, flash, sound, rockets). If you collect can be used immediately, but there is also the option to upgrade to a weapon make you stronger. This is easily done by driving another pickup. Drive a pick-up third and the weapon is full.
The weapons, upgrades, and access to a shield for an interesting experience, race tactics. Are you fast enough to be the pack near the front might be tempted to use your momentum to get in the first, but then when an enemy fires a rocket at you, there is no cut will be allowed to oppose them . protect On the other hand, if you save the drive for use as a shield, which can never reach the enemy before you and lose the race. But then you drove a pickup to help you, or fed their own missile by firing the last round.
If this is not enough to employs you, there are alternative routes, unlockable sections when driving on a switch, find, and traps you can activate a similar. The end result is a very popular route.
Overall, it offers a fun challenge. The drifting is reactive and predictable artificial intelligence offers a good challenge, how does your career, and the introduction of defensive weapons and upgrade brings something new to the game. My only complaint would be things to be a bit 'busy at times.
With 12 karts in each race, it can be used in weapons every few seconds, and it is clearly done some rubber strips with artificial intelligence in order to close a player in the head. Detailed environments make it difficult to see exactly where you are going sometimes, but the biggest problem is that several tracks are either forgettable or frustrating run around. The focus seems to be the valve or unlockable areas, rather than be a stretch, the driving skills to jump to move quickly.
If you get bored or frustrated with single-and multiplayer modes offer is always a new challenge. There is no AI with this deal, online all the titles is a real player and works well. It is also possible to try to run a new record against the ghost car of your efforts or establish the fastest time recorded on the track that day. Finally there is the possibility of split screen with up to four friends at home to play.
Then turn on the personalization ... ModNation trump card. Not only can you create your own unique characters and karts, but it is possible to design your own tracks and share them with others. This is Little Big Planet for racing fans.
The level editor controls are simple and powerful editor. It is easy to forget the most important game and sit there completely build your own track for hours. The same is true for the characters and karts, but for me, creating the track was the main draw. After all, only look at the back of your character and a kart race.
There is a large, which can in this game, however, and made a abandon me and leave in a couple of times in frustration. Load times were terrible, and there are a lot of them. Loading the player first, may take longer than 30 seconds and only the range of possibilities. If you then chose race just another burden to the desired track is select. Then an additional load of 30 + seconds before it can start the race. It may not seem like much, but wait a minute, between races, back more time for the range of possibilities, and also for long loads movies is simply not acceptable.
The times I walked away from the game, when the charges were successful and I ended up somewhere I did not want to go. That was the beginning of the game, trying to do, all the different areas have to teach you access, but not with long load times. In career mode, for example, instead of carrying the load every race sometimes a burden, again in the range of possibilities. They then travel back to the entrance of career mode and go through the upload process again. It is a killer experience.
Fortunately, developer United Front Games is also aware of the problem, and the team is working to reduce these times. We can expect an update really can not come soon enough.
Under the assumption that the loading times shorter, it makes little fun, as in this racing game. If it was just a racing game that would be something I recommend waiting to buy at a cheap price, but the racing line and character, kart track and adapt really push the fun you can have with this title. If you use the racing AI can go online and make some real challenge to bore people. Bored of all races and you can become the creator of a brand new track. Until you have finished your masterpiece, you will no doubt ready to run again.
Total ModNation Racers offers a complete package that will sit well with the taste of most race fans. Loading times, they are disappointed, but if they improve a game that you are always on, be it racial or create.