Early last week Sony released the much anticipated patch for their highly customizable kart racer ModNation Racers. The patch was designed to help alleviate some of the unbearably long load times gamers were experiencing. However some have been experiencing the exact opposite – increased load times.
Mario Kart has always reigned supreme when it comes to the best kart racers out there to play, but there are still a few other racers that are must-plays.
Sony Interactive Entertainment will be shutting the servers down for two PS3 racing games in July.
Sad, hopefully they make a new Modnation racers game. wait, is it completely shutting down or can you still download tracks?
This is what I'm wondering also. There's so much quality maps available online and it would be unfortunate if people couldn't download those anymore.
Yeah, I didn't play much online anyways. But I always use to play local multi with my cousin and download so many amazing levels. Sadly 8 didn't get to platinum it. Had only the create trophy, level 30 and 100 races i think left. I had I believe 87 last time 8 checked lol. Might go on to see if I can get my last few lol. Remember my win ratio was decent since I did around 160 races maybe, 170 ranked
@Teflon02
Yeah same here, but I actually jumped in not too long ago to play again and it's still holds up great for a 8 year old game. It's was a really good game when it came out and it still is.
I had some good memories playing Modnation. :( Sad to see it go, but it was inevitable.
There were plenty of notably excellent PlayStation 3 exclusives that were one-and-done during its long history. Games like Mag, Starhawk, Heavy Rain and LittleBigPlanet Karting were solid titles that were not given a chance to expand on their potential with sequels. Ironically, the developer of LittleBigPlanet Karting, United Front Games, had another kart racing title prior to this. Its first game, ModNation Racers, successfully implemented an aspect that wasn’t done previously and hasn’t been done since.
I loved this game, and it's a crying shame that the studio closed eliminating the possibility of a PS4/PS4 Pro Modnation game :(
Imho this is my fav kart racer. I still play Everhart now and then to this day.
Other than load times the game was excellent
game was great. However it felt soules Mario Kart. The load times on the game for Psvita were beyond horrible
Well done article! I really don't know what was going on with the guy from Kotaku's PS3. Maybe bad disc or hard drive, because I have experienced the same speed increase that most users are. Not a decrease.
= or 1 second (Not incuding going to quick race) is stupid....
I'm glad the patch did what it was supposed to do. Thanks for letting us know!
Didn't the devs use those SPEs in the PS3???
Those SPEs are like.. how you say..? Little Monsters, Small.. Yes but they can tear through anything you throw at 'em in seconds :D
Surely, they can be utilised to remove any sign of a loading screen??
The last two sentences are so totally true :-D