Pimp your Mod

New racing hightlight or Mario Kart copy ?!
While you will always be delivered annoying cover versions in the music industry, which is not exactly bursting with creativity, here cult and Fun is re-united and also the individuality knows no bounds. This brings you Sony a race battle that so is not new, but nevertheless attempts by many new extras to shine.

Freak your Mod and Kart your

Mods are the pawns. These you can customize according to your mood in the "Creative Station". Here even the most absurd design is possible. Aside from various color options and clothes like hats, pants, shirts and helmets, there are also designs, patterns and stickers, for example, look like dirt or oil stains in order to awaken the correct racing feeling in you. For people who do not want to spend so much time with the design, there are also templates or your simply download a mod-style down like the popular Mario plumber or you choose a superhero like Spiderman or Ironman.

It continues with the karts, which can also be designed in the above-mentioned "creative station". Here you can select the axes, the body, the design, the type of drive, the tires, the accessories, the seat, the spoilers and last but not least. And one can say, more choice is not genuine. You can drive around in a cardboard box or select a Malzbierfass as drive eg.

In addition to the Mods and Karts you can in the Creative Station design also has its own route, talk to other gamers karts and Mods and join you in the shop using the won the race "brands" in a kind of gambling and even more types of drives, bodies and more Unlock parts.

Kartz Rulez and many extras

The game starts with a short intro about the origin of "MRC-kart race" (MRC = ModNation Racing ChampionChip).

The first race is a tutorial where you explain the team manager, the first controls. After the race, you get to the "ModSpot", an area in which ye move freely with your kart, practice and other gamers can meet online. Here you can watch the race and Creative Station entered, and many others, as the Topstrecken which are the most popular racetracks in the game. In addition, you can download here more mods and karts.

In campaign mode ever more control elements are in the other races explains, so it is becoming increasingly complex. In addition, each race includes several tasks that need to master it in order to turn more free bonuses. During a race you can watch fire not only by collecting the subject capsules and by which it arms or speedups contained an advantage, but also by skillful drifts and perform other moves. This will get you extra points for your Turbo display. Is this well filled, you can use the turbo and so driving your opponents away. Very useful is to protect themselves from the attacks of the enemy will also find the option.

You ought to take before lying around, flying or exploding objects in eight during the race, however. And if you're not careful, you can also sometimes just a cow run away from the kart.

When controlling almost all the buttons of the controller can be used during the race. Sounds complex, but it is well explained in the tutorial. You can also your opponents Beckoning, horn or show them demonstratively that they have no chance. As you can already see almost over the fact that the movements of your karts are not always liquid.

The goal is to be switched off by winning the race, more karts, mods and design options in the Creative Station and to win as many brands as possible.

A negative point is the long wait to get to the next race or video. Whatever you can not really understand, because so outstanding, this graphic is not, and the gameplay is not very complex. This can really annoy.

What pleasantly surprised me, was the relatively long season compared to similar games such as Mario Kart. Even after approximately 9 hours. Design and drive seemed the end of the game is still far away and there was always something new to discover.

Sympathetic world with slanted secondary characters

During the campaign mode all the time by two sympathetic and ever ankeifenden commentators accompanied her. These bring a gag after another and make for a negative race starting always in a good mood.

Needless however, is the team manager, who during the race time, so every 10 seconds, your driving style comments and a not always easy to make the race to concentrate.

The music in the game is a mix of electro, indie and oblique sounds. Graphics and design are rather simplistic and playful comic-style kept. The special thing about it is mainly that here a gameplay is mediated, which is normally reserved for Wii owners.

Conclusion

Compared to the current competitors in the racing scene as "blur" or "Split / Second Velocity" it has "ModNation Racers" of course not easy. Having appeared to have a monopoly in the racing game Mario Kart battle but a long time, ModNation Racers is even a fancier version, the gameplay very reminiscent of the Wii and least exactly is so much fun. Since you can sometimes even over little niggles such. As longer waiting times in the game, ignore. A surprising blast which sweeps every Racingfan.