Custom Skid Marks!
Move over, Sims: The ModNation Racers have peeled into town!
ModNation Racers isn’t a car game. It’s a full-featured
imagination engine for limitless creative expression that’s only disguised as a
car game.
Yeah, there are the vehicles, laps and finish lines you’d find
in any in any old racing sim. In fact, as kart racers go it’s a fairly
excellent one. But at its heart ModNation – out tomorrow on PS3 – is more like an
art studio. Everything from your driver to your hoopty to the very world
you’re careening through is a blank canvas waiting to be created by you.
It all starts with your wheelman, who looks like a vinyl toy
missing his paintjob. An infinite number of colors, body parts, stickers,
clothing, hair, hats and other accessories lets you make him freakishly unique.
Then it’s time to do the same with your vehicle, which can be customized to run
on anything from a rocket to an oversized human heart.
Instantly throw your car and driver into a race on one of
the game’s prefab speedways, or design your own bizarro Bristol in the track
editor. There you can lay miles of track, create tunnels, ramps and overpasses,
conjure mountains out of the ground and dig out waterways. Add obstacles and
terrain textures to the road, then plop trees and buildings into the
environment. Save it, race it and share it with other Modders online.
Now, if only you actually had an imagination.
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