E3 2009: Customize your own cart racer in Sony’s Mod Nation Racers

Mod Nation Racers amazed me. When United Front Games’ William Ho and James Greeve stepped up on stage to demonstrate how the PS3 game Mod Nation Racers worked during Sony’s E3 2009 press conference, it was easily one of the most surprising moments of that press conference. Especially the part where Greeve created an entirely new racetrack in five minutes. It’s a PS3 exclusive, and won’t be out until 2010.

Mod Nation Racers is to cart racing games what Little Big Planet is to platformers. Players completely customize their characters, carts and tracks. They can share the tracks, carts and character with others over the internet. They can even take tracks from other people that they’ve downloaded and tweak them on the go. Best of all, it’s an amazing simple, totally uncomplicated process.

Just watch the trailer below, which shows the creation of a new racing track in Mod Nation Racers:

I love how simple the creation process works. It actually looks like fun. Usually, level creation in games can be quite a tedious endeavor. Not so in Mod Nation Racers. It’s enough to get someone like me, who isn’t normally a racing game fan, excited.

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