

Not only that but the single player is packed with sub-achievements, tokens and other such objectives, that will have you repeatedly playing tracks to unlock every last sticker and object available. It's whimsical and cute, and it's enhanced by some great packaged tracks which provide inspiration for the game's Create mode.

This campaign packs a complete narrative with comical, well-written, and well-voiced characters that will actually get you invested in the game's 'kid off the streets turns racing superstar' storyline. It's odd to praise the single player component of a heavily online-focused racer, but ModNation Racers isn't like any other game. While ModNation Racers doesn't go quite as deep as Media Molecule's title, it does ensure that every player will have something to show for themselves. Therefore, it does something LittleBigPlanet couldn't - it gives everyone results they can be proud of. You can't help but enjoy yourself playing ModNation Racers - the presentation is bright and eye-catching, the racing is simple yet deep, and the creation modes provide the tools any player will need to really go in-depth and develop something amazing.

There's no pretense, no need to pick apart the game's individual mechanics and components it's just straight-up smiles all the way. Our game clock sits at 18 hours and we expect we may surpass the 100 hours mark playing ModNation Racers.

This is the real deal, and you'd be a fool to miss out on it. If ModNation Racers was simply the sum of its creation components we'd be wholeheartedly recommending it, but the fact that it includes a fantastic single player campaign, some brilliant online functionality and split-screen racing is the real icing on the cake. That's not the only key creation component though - ModNation Racers allows you to build your own race tracks with one of the most intuitive custom track builders we've ever seen. Playing as Mods, you're able to create a cartoon version of practically any character and their respective kart using ModNation Racer's unbelievably simplistic, yet incredibly deep, creation tools. This is LittleBigPlanet made easy, and it's utterly brilliant. This is a kart racer done the Play, Create, Share way, a genre Sony's single-handedly brought to the forefront of the industry. It then put the remains into a bowl and mixes in one-third LittleBigPlanet and two-thirds fun. ModNation Racers takes everything that is good about Nintendo's Mario Kart franchise and rids itself of the bad.
