Wow, here we are! ModNation Racers: Road Trip is out and the feedback from gamers who’ve played the game sounds like they are loving it. Personally, I must confess to being a little more than enamored with the game and my PlayStation Vita; so much so that I couldn’t wait any longer to get my copy of the game. I actually purchased mine at retail a week early because… well, “I’m not only the Community Manager for ModNation Racers, but I’m also a client”! lol. True, but lol.
I honestly don’t think you can beat the gaming value found in ModNation Racers: Road Trip. For $29.99 you have in your possession well over a lifetime of great, and most importantly, fun kart racing experiences. I could go on and on singing the game’s praises ad-nauseam (too late!) but no expensive, highfalutin, big city words can describe the experience until you have the game in your hands. In our ModNation Labs research we found the term “Wow!” came closest to an accurate description.
I personally suggest going directly to the Share Station and downloading some of the tracks from our recommended user-created “Starter Set” of tracks (see below). This will give you a great example of the amazing graphics, powerful (yet simple) creation tools used by the gamers, and the ability to quickly search through the 3,000,000 user-generated creations of which over 500,000 are user-created tracks!
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
ModNation Racers: Road Trip – San Diego Studio Favorites!
Each day we search through the growing Vita collection of user-created Mods, Karts and Tracks looking for the best of the best to feature as the San Diego Studio favorites in the game. These choices can be found in the “search creations” section of the Share Station. Each week we will select five new creations from each creation category to be featured. Make sure to download them and show your appreciation to their creators!
If you have some great Mod, Karts, or Tracks that you feel need to be seen, please let us know HERE.
ModNation Racers: Road Trip – Track of the Week
ModNation Racers: Road Trip Developers Tip #1 – “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”
When racing against AI opponents, try resisting the temptation to constantly bombard your opponents with weapons and see what happens. (hint “eye for an eye”). Remember, you can always cash-in your weapons for added boost.
ModNation Racers Road Trip: Track Starter Kit – Week Two
So you just received your brand spankin’ new Vita and ModNation Racers: Road Trip and noticed the 500,000 + plus user created tracks to choose from. Let me help you with a few of my (ModNationSD: MNR Community Manager) favorites. Over the next few weeks I will post some great tracks in this “Starter Kit” section which demonstrate a great cross-section of some of the best tracks ModNation community members have made (so far!). You won’t want to miss these!
ModNation Racers For PS3
Top Tracks: Best of John31269
Hot Lap Track of the Week: Encroaching Wastelands by its2l84that
Monday: Iciclette Valley by mackAttack8000
Tuesday: Fat Joe’s Fishy Fish Farm by flathletics102
Wednesday: fin-de-siecle unrest v1.3 by inosan0518
Thursday: Armageddon 2012 by CapnCwby1969
Friday: Golden Valley by mackAttack8000
Saturday: Encroaching Wastelands by its2l84that
Sunday: Grand Forge Dam Sector 05 by IndustrialSavior
ModNation Thursday Fun Races
Join ModNationSD for an evening of fun racing this Thursday from 4:30-5:30 PST. This is a great opportunity to meet some fun people in a casual racing environment. Bring your favorite Mods and Karts and strut your stuff out on the track. Check our ModNation Facebook page on the day of the races on how to join.
Keep Up On All Things ModNation
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Will there be a multiplayer update for the game? So that you can play versus others across the world?
Also, I really want to get the game! It looks great, even without online multiplayer. I really like the competition through leaderboards and racing the “ghosts” of other players. I’m just wonder if there will be an update for online multiplayer! Awesome game! Hope to get it soon! :D
I really love the racing in ModNation Racers Road Trip, but the load times REALLY take me out of the experience. Track creation is fun, mod & kart creation is fun too. However, getting into a race takes nearly a minute EVERY time. I can understand this with user generated tracks to some degree, but I would think the tracks that come with the game would at least load a little more quickly!
Overall, what’s important is the racing…and it’s excellent. It’s just disappointing how long it takes to get into a race sometimes. Every now and then it’ll make me choose another game from my collection if I know I don’t have 10 minutes of gaming ahead of me, and that’s kind of a tough sell for a portable game…
Are there any plans to reduce loading times through patches?
Is there any way to add cpu racers to an ad hoc race for the vita? Was disappointed to see that an ad hoc race was just the people sitting in the room. Would’ve been a lot better if you could add cpu racers.
well i promised to buy the game to support you and meet you halfway to that most requested head to head online patch and i did kept my promise and im very glad i bought the game , in my opinion is way better than the psp and ps3 versions , i really love the handling of the cars , the easy ways to create stuff , the near gift feature .
it was my last launch wanted game but its the one im most advanced in trophies lol , i cant put it down , i have just beat tour number 3 and about to start with tour number 4 , i have created my mod , cart and track and uploaded them to the community , i have rated other community creations too , i dont know if im gonna be able to get the 2 ad-hoc trophies because none of my real life friends have vitas so those 2 trophies you guys should add them on the online patch .
please thats the only thing this game needs , head to head online multiplayer and a patch to improve loading times ( while they are not as bad as the psp or ps3 versions , they are still long ) other than that congrats on such an amazing game , its without a doubt one of my favorite ps vita launch titles , i honestly mean that
remanutd5,
Thanks for the great feedback! We love the game too and are really proud of it. All we can ask is for the players like you to try it and experience it for themselves. Once they do they realize just how great the game is. I can write blog after blog “selling” it’s features and yet understand that readers may be hesitant to believe until they can see it for themselves. Thanks for your support of our game. It means a lot to us.
Mark
btw … show us your creations!