Sony’s Jack Tretton has said United Front Games’ ModNation Racers is LittleBigPlanet for kart racing, where modding and sharing becomes key.
With that in mind, ModNation Racers will fully support custom circuits with developers showing off their Track Studio in-game. It’ll pack kart power-ups and weaponry of course.
LittleBigPlanet has created the Play Create Share ”genre” says Tretton during their E3 conference. ModNation Racers will be just one example of how this new genre expands.
Just like in LBP, players can create completely personalised levels with a rating system in place so you can feel the love.
”Using Track Studio in-game, one of the developers was able to lay down tarmac by actually driving around a big empty field, connecting start to finish by driving back through the start/finish line,” reports Eurogamer.
”With the right stick to help with elevation, he took the track up and around in a loop back across itself, and the game put a bridge in place to avoid problems.”
”Elsewhere he dropped in lakes and played with the sun, moving it around to change shadows and raising and lowering it to change the lighting conditions from midday to dusk and everything in-between. It was all reflected in real time.”
Sounds like Sony could really be on to something… it’s one thing to create a great game but quite another to essentialy invent a new genre - well done LBP’s Media Molecule.
See the clip below for Sony’s E3 debut of ModNation Racers, courtesy of GameTrailers.
