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ModNation Racers | 
| From: Sony Computer Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Seller: goHastings
Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 431
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: kart_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.5 x 0.6
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MPN: 98167
Model: 98167
UPC: 711719816720
EAN: 0711719816720
ASIN: B002BRZ7JE
Publication Date: May 31, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Enjoy PlayStation Network support including matchmaking, detailed stats and leaderboards, friends list management, communication tools, PlayStation trophies, etc. | | • | Classic kart racing action featuring exceptional kart handling and physics technology, including drifting, jumps and boosting, as well as classic weapons and some crazy new ones. | | • | Extreme customization option allowing you to create your own track, character and kart that are only limited by the amount of time you want to spend on them. | | • | A built-in online community in which players can race and rate other peoples creations, as well as enjoy endless user generated content. | | • | Along with a fun single player campaign, ModNation Racers contains deep multiplayer support including 4-player local versus play, 2-player online split-screen and 2-12 player online support. |
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Product Description
PS3 ModNation: Racers
Amazon.com Product Description
ModNation Racers is a PlayStation 3 exclusive Kart Racing game featuring all the track-based driving and comic combat players cherish in the genre, blended with extreme customization and user generated content expected of a modern online multiplayer title. In it players can expect exceptional kart handling and physics technology, including drifting, jumps and boosting and easy to master customization options covering in-game racers, their karts and the tracks that are raced on. A Creative Twist on Classic Kart Racing
Get behind the wheel of PlayStation's latest creative gaming title, ModNation Racers. A PlayStation 3 exclusive, it is a thoroughly fresh take on classic and ever-popular kart racing that empowers the player both in single player and multiplayer to personalize their entire game. Like all kart racers, the comic action is all about what happens on the tracks. Enjoy endless karting fun, where winning the race is only half of the fun. Players looking for the full experience can use combat-like racing strategies to attack other karts with an array of dramatic weapons, while those interested in focusing solely on racing, can stick to racing in Pure Race mode. The choice is your in ModNation Racers.  Creative kart racing.
View larger. | The Ultimate Kart Racer Customization
ModNation Racers features extreme customization, and as such allows each player to create their own unique racing experience with the same tools used by the development team. Begin by expressing yourself through the creation of your own Mod character and quirky kart. Starting with more or less a blank slate, players are free to change a variety of their racer's features. These range from head features and skin color, to wearable gear and attire. Customization of karts is equally deep, allowing for alteration of everything from suspension and interior, to body, wheels, decals. Finally, ModNation Racers gives players everything that they need to build the tracks of their dreams. With this functionality, known as Track Studio, players can invest minimal time and enjoy basic creating, or they can invest more time and make sure every lake, mountain, banked turn and power-up is placed perfectly. Either way the result is quick, contagious fun that can be shared through online races of up to 12 players, which can even be rated by the online community. Key Game Features - Accessible and Fun – For racers, newcomers to video games or an aspiring game developer.
- Classic Kart Racing Action – Exceptional kart handling and physics technology, including drifting, jumps and boosting.
- Fun Weapons – Classic weapons and some crazy new ones.
- Create Your Own Track, Character and Kart – Spend minutes creating or hours perfecting everything in the game.
- Story Mode – Rise up to become an elite racer in the humorous campaign.
- Online Community – Race and rate other peoples creations and enjoy endless user generated content.
- Multiplayer Support – ModNation Racers contains deep multiplayer support including 2-player local versus play, and 2-12 player online support.
- PlayStation Network Support – Features include matchmaking, detailed stats and leaderboards, friends list management, communication tools, PlayStation trophies, etc.
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Racer and kart customization.
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Over-the-top kart weapons.
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Easy to master track design.
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Online and offline multiplayer.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 71
 Long load times and rubberbanding = infrequent fun. September 5, 2010
Armando N. Roman (Hillsboro, OR)
I'm not a big racing game person, and most of my experience with the genre involves the Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing games. In fact, I just plain don't care about cars, and never even played a 'real' racing game like Gran Turismo or anything like that. So ModNation Racers had my interest since it looked like it was going to be Sony's answer to Mario Kart. Well, the gameplay is very, very similar, but there are a few big problems that keep it from taking the portly plumber's title. And I'll get this one out of the way right now- yes, a patch for the long load times has been released. But you know what? It only cut down the times by about 1/3. You'll still spend a lot of your time waiting for 1-3 minutes for a simple customization menu to pop up, or even for the track to load, even if you just played that very track seconds before and want to re-race.
ModNation Racers is a simple game to get into, and if you've played a Mario Kart before, it's just like that but with some differences here and there. Instead of doing a hop to drift, drifting has been assigned to the X button, so you can drift whenever you want with one simple press/hold. Drifting's an important part of the game too, since drifting fills your shield meter, which allows you to block attacks from the other racers. You can also stack weapons. When you drive into a weapon bubble, and if you don't use the weapon when you reach another bubble, your weapon will be upgraded. A regular homing missile (the red Koopa shell of this game) can be upgraded into a massive air strike that'll obliterate whoever gets caught in its zone. Unfortunately, there are a lot of weapon bubbles on the tracks, and with a lot of racers, that makes for a lot of weapons. When playing against the computer, be prepared to replay tracks over and over again after going from 1st to 12th when a lightning bolt takes you out just before you hit a ramp, and everyone else passes you while you're trying to recover, only to be hit by another weapon. I swear, the AI waits until right when I pass a car before using a weapon, usually on the final lap.
The Career mode's the basic single player game, and has some pretty fun cutscenes to move the story along. It's nothing special, but younger players will get a kick out of some of the jokes. There are also the usual split screen and online gameplay modes, and setting up races with other people on PSN is easy. You can also report any obscene material. I had way more fun playing online with other people, but even that was crippled by the long waiting and load times.
The main selling point for MNR though is the creation aspect. You can make your own characters, tracks and cars. Do you want Mario or Samus? Make 'em or download 'em. How about one of the monsters from Where the Wild Things Are driving a school bus? You can do that too. The tracks can get pretty creative too, but there's one thing I thought could've been handled better. You're limited to what you can create at first. Like LittleBigPlanet, you can only create levels and characters with items you've unlocked or won in the main game. Each track has different goals- just winning the race wins you some basic items, but meeting the other requirements gives you the really good stuff. These goals are usually easy to earn, with some of them being just hitting 3 other racers with weapons or activating panels on the tacks. But again, good luck getting those on the first try with how often the computer lays the smackdown on you. I had to replay one track 18 times before I finally came in first place with the goals met for some stupid stickers to use on my car.
Overall, I wanted to like ModNation Racers, but stupidly cheap AI and those damn load times kept me from getting more out of it. Yes I know that it's more of an online game than a single player one, but if you want to get items for customization, you need to get really, really good at the single player mode. Also, I couldn't help but feel like this would've been better suited as a downloadable game for half (or less) the price it's currently going for. With all the great customization elements...the tracks, framerate issues and loading times made it feel a bit cheap. This is one I'll definitely wait on getting until the price goes down a bit more. 'glad it was only loaned to me.
 Great Game, whole family loves it! August 19, 2010
BDBusmma (St. Louis, MO USA)
This is a great game. My whole family loves it and my wife usually doesn't like video games. It has so many options from split screen play for 4 people, online gaming, online gaming in split screen (a little disappointed online splitscreen is only for 2 players vice 4, but no biggy). Load times for each segment of the game are a little slow, but not bad. You will not be disappointed if you buy this game no matter the age of player!
PSP is extremely different from PS3 August 19, 2010
Brandon J. Negri
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me just start off by saying I absolutely LOVE this game. I hear big babies complaining about load times and difficult career mode. Meh. Its a little difficult at times, but I have completed it and love this tremendously. I'm not about to post a review based on how much I love this, I'm here to warn people that the PSP version IS NOT the PS3 version. What it comes down to is that the PSP is not capable of the magnitude of gaming that it's larger counterpart is. If you are going to buy this game, make sure it is the PS3 version. The handling and controls on the PSP is too dificult to harmonicaly switch between drift, sideswiping, shielding, boosting and fireing weapons. I own both versions and am a completely unbiased reviewer, and I must say the PSP version is far short of the PS3 version.
Great game with unlimited fun August 11, 2010
Jorge Rivera
This game offers a wide range of tracks off-line to achieve experience.However, the real game happens on-line (sharing your mod, carts and tracks creations).
Cons: Takes too long to load track info.
terrible game design August 10, 2010
Eric Etter (Water Mill, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is good and i want to give it a five star rating but i just cant. the gameplay is hard, and extremely cheap. you get blown up around almost every turn the computer players all seem to shoot their load outs at you at the same time and it is nearly impossible to clear any of the in game challenges. do not buy for children because they will be in tears.
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