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Welcome to the never-ending season of ModNation™ kart racing, where competitive racing and community creativity collide. Whether you race for the fastest time, customize your own karts or tracks, or you discover new courses online – ModNation™ Racers gives you everything you need for your next 'Road Trip!' ModNation Racers: Road Trip features customization of racer characters, karts and tracks made easy and fast by the built-in controls of the PlayStation Vita and the game's customization studios. In the game's Mod Studio, racer and karts can be created and altered in seconds using Vita front touch pad functionality that allows the player to dress racer in a wide variety of gear, and tune karts to their heart's delight.
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Explore the world-wide racetrack with the “ModNation Racers” game. A racing video game developed by United Front Games for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable systems. Coming to ModNation Racers, players can create their own funny racing characters and oversized super cars to help them overcome all difficult races. With the map showing the race track arranged on the game screen, it is easy for players to easily observe the terrain and the position of the opponents. While participating in the game, players can collect weapons such as sound, rockets and lightning strikes to upgrade the power of the player. With the ability to create characters for the race, players can change the skin color or bring beautiful accessories for characters such as masks or outfits in the game.
ModSpot is a main lounge for motorists in ModNation Racers, where players can meet and make new friends and create teams to fight together. With the diverse maps in the game, players can try hard terrain to even flat terrain.
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In a brief pitch, the equation tends to be Mario Kart + LittleBigPlanet, a Mascot Racer game that takes the realistic yet fun driving system and doubling it up with the ability to create tracks, Mods (The Drivers) and Karts, each and every one of those goes more in depth than TrackMania even, and adds so much to the driving aspect to hold up on its own.
This game was announced at E3 2009 and released on May 21st, 2010 in Europe and May 25th in the United States for both the Playstation Portable and Playstation 3. Later, a Playstation Vita port subtitled 'Road Trip' was released in early 2012, which is missing the career mode cutscenes and online from the original game. As with many classic Playstation 3 titles, the servers were eventually shut down, and as of October 10th, 2018, the game's much vaunted online features have come to an end.
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The game features examples of these tropes:
- Alpha Bitch: Jez's entire shtick. White and pastel color scheme, snooty or Valley Girl-like affectations and says she became a racer because 'daddy hates it.'
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: This Playstation Blog post reveals that Biff and Gary carpool to and from work.
- Brick Joke: At the end of Chief's big wreck, we see him getting hosed down with fire suppression foam by an emergency team. After Chief decks Espresso so hard he goes rolling off that same corner of the track 25 years later, that same team shows up and sprays Espresso with the same foam. Despite not being in a kart.
- Butt-Monkey: Gary
RaisinsReasons. He is constantly being made fun of by Biff Tradwell. - Canon Name: While the mods themselves can be named anything, the mod used in career mode will always be referred to as Tag.
- Car Fu: In addition to the powerups, you can sideswipe other cars, provided your boost bar isn't empty.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Most Mods out there, including the commentators, watch the MRC to marvel at just how violent the races can get. Best emphasized when Biff completely abandons his commentator duties to giddily watch Chiefs big crash over and over.
- Cool Car: Quite a few kart body types, from various 'normal' cars to cardboard boxes, trains, and even an airplane, colored and decorated however you want.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Uncle Richard. He sets up a bomb which knocks out Chief in order to get Tag to sign a contract so he can extract more money from the races, which causes him to be arrested at the end of the story.
- Cynical Mentor: The Crew Chief acts as Tag's pit radio speaker. He comments on how well Tag is racing during races, commenting on his drifting skills, when he ruins a previously clean lap, and when he has a full boost meter. He also complains when Tag goes off the track. In the PSP game, he will complain about Tag going off the track when he's simply being launched by a Mega Jump that is launching him to the next part of the track.
- Defeat Means Playable: Most of the elite racers in career mode become playable and their parts unlocked after beating their 'Grudge Matches'.
- Denser and Wackier: A subtle example with the background racers in each tour: while the rosters for each of the first three tours consist of realistic racers with helmets and simplistic racing suits, the roster of the Grim Tour consists of odd characters like a gargoyle, a boy in bear pyjamas, a giant ant and a cat princess from space.
- Difficulty Spike: Flaming Jumps. Not only is the track itself much less forgiving than previous ones, with fewer drifting opportunities and plenty of ways to fall off the track completely, it's also the first track in career mode where you must finish in first place to advance instead of just the top three. The elite driver, Hale, only makes matters worse. If he ever gets any kind of lead over you, expect it to grow exponentially if you can't keep up or use shortcuts.
- Disappeared Dad: Tags father gets mentioned during a Darkest Hour scene when Tag's feeling depressed from being forced to sell out to CM, but the reason for his absence never does. Evidently, he could tell early on that Tag was destined to be a racer.
- Drives Like Crazy: Pretty much everyone in the game.
- Everyone Calls Him 'Barkeep': No one ever refers to our three heroes as anything but Tag, Chief and Mother.
- Exploding Barrels: Barrels are launched by certain types of props, and when they collide with something they explode.
- Fantastic Racism: Towards the final boss in one cutscene, who is Italian:Tag:(offers to hug Chief after he starts to cry about bad memories)Chief: This is a RACETRACK! What are you doing?! Never hug me. Hugging's for Girl scouts, Hippies, and ITALIANS!
- Funny Background Event: Before the race starts, racers can be seen doing all manner of gags at their wheel. In addition to that, there are many, many gags in the form of the news that moves across the top of the screen. There is a large pool from which they are picked, many of which are unique to career races alone.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation:
- The game's career mode explains that the Boom Box Weapons System is what allows karts to fire weapons. In the PSP game, after Richard plants a bomb on Tag's kart that explodes and destroys his Boom Box, he is still able to fire weapons, which is inconsistent with the story's explanation that the Boom Box is required to fire weapons.
- In the PSP game, Tag is able to show up as a random offline racer in normal race modes if you don't play as him despite the career mode stating that custom Mod racers are just outfits for Tag, which can be seen as a conflict between the story and the gameplay.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar:
- Espresso shills for a car he designed called the 'SUX-600D'. note
- Later, Gary mentions that Tag has been signed to the racing team of Conservative Motors, who manufacture the 'ever-stimulating B008-S'. note
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: The tokens, used to buy accessories for the various editor modes. There are five on each track, meaning a total of 140 tokens, or 225 with all DLC.
- Heroic Mime: Tag during the story cutscenes. Justified as it's to work around the fact that Tag could just as well be anything, with any voice, including no voice at all.
- I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Chief's confession to Tag that it was Espresso who caused his trauma inducing crash 25 years ago.
- Jerkass: Biff Tradwell, especially to Gary, who appears to have gotten used to it.Biff: Hey Gary, if two's company and three's a crowd, what's one?
Gary: The number of people at my birthday party?
Biff:Booyah! - Kill It with Fire: The PS Vita version adds fire to the power ups you can aquire, and what happens when you reach Level 3? You fire a gigantic Phoenix of course.
- Level Editor: The game takes the LittleBigPlanet approach by making the advanced Track Studio the big selling point of the game, but there is also a very, very indepth Mod and Kart Studio in comparison to similar features in other games. In fact, the default tracks on the PlayStation 3 and Playstation Vita versions of the game are created using Track Studio.
- Loads and Loads of Loading: A fairly common gripe. 45 second loads, anyone? They're worse in the PS Vita version than in the Playstation 3 version, despite being on cartridge or memory card and not a Blu-ray disc and hard drive. The PSP version has short load times compared to the other versions, but the engine is not the same as the other two versions.
- Macross Missile Massacre: The level 3 missile powerup in the PS 3 and PS Vita game, the Hydra, does this launching 11 missiles that home in to higher placing racers. The PSP game has an equivalent, but only fires five missiles which only home in to targets that it comes close to.
- Made of Iron: Chief, who survived his rather catastrophic wreck 25 years ago with little more than a bit of emotional trauma. Comes in handy when a bomb goes off in his face, a massive tool bin, several wheels and an industrial car lift fall on him. Despite being rendered catatonic, he's physically no worse for wear.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Hydra, the level three variant of the rocket power-up, a Macross Missile Massacre that will relentlessly lock on to every driver in front of its user, and it will have enough missiles for each and every single one of them.
- Nitro Boost: It is possible to run over two types of boost pads, one of them launch you in its direction. You can also pick up a 'Jumpstart' item which can be upgraded into the 'Supercharger' and both act as speed boosting items. In addition, it is possible to obtain 'Boost Points' which can be used to get a speed boost or perform other actions such as sideswiping or activating a shield, or in the PSP version, stomp and attack enemies nearby.
- Nintendo Hard: While the CPU isn't terribly fiendish, although it does get quite challenging at times, some of the bonus missions in the Playstation 3 version fall under this. In fact, some objectives were changed in an update to the game to make them less challenging.
- Red Herring: Look at the picture of the box art of the game. See that guy in white standing in the foreground by the company logo? You think he's the final boss? Nope. He's not even an elite character. Who's the final boss? You see that guy in the background, flying in the air behind Tag? That's him.
- Rubber-Band A.I.: While not as blatant as some racing games (at least to start with), it's definitely present.
- Rule of Fun: Comes up time and time again. For example, the power-ups are indeed implemented for this rule. In particular, thankfully, to avoid the blue shell effect, you are able to use boost gained from certain activities to generate a temporary shield. A welcome addition.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: As a means of resetting on the track if a problem occurs, karts can spontaneously explode at will. This costs you your boost meter or your weapon depending on the game though.
- Ship Tease: Tag and Jez get plenty of UST during the Grand Tour, with the two constantly pranking and messing with each other during the pre-race interactions. Notably, they're the only two characters to directly interact with each other during said tour.
- Shout-Out:
- In one of the final cutscenes from the career mode, the Big Bad gets arrested. A cop then explains that his fingerprints were found on a bomb. The cop is a redhead who wears black sunglasses, wears a tuxedo and ends his bit with an Incredibly Lame Pun. Does this remind you of someone else?
- Skidplate's introduction claims he is 'Possibly a a robot in disguise.' Appropriate, considering he bears a remarkable resemblance to Bumblebee.
- The news ticker for the Craggy Hills track mentions that 'Locals say a hunchbacked creature lives in nearby caves protecting a 'ring'.'
- Stuff Blowing Up: In addition to the rocket powerups, and karts self-destructing at will or exploding due to being crushed by a Devastator or running into objects while in mid air, there's also the elite racers Nato and Drillbit. While Nato seems to just really like explosives, Drillbit appears to have the ability to blow things up with his mind, as shown by his pre-race intro.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Determining the gender of a mod is solely up to the clothes, accessories and voice applied to it.
- This Is Wrong on So Many Levels: Biff Tradwell's response to Tag picking his nose waiting at the starting line in Rumble Jungle. Jez looks on in a similar disgust.
- Unlockable Content: Most of the parts for the create modes.
- Virtual Paper Doll: Color and add accessories to your Mod to make them look like they're wearing almost anything, though you can't change the basic body shape. It helps that a blank Mod looks like a vinyl figurine. You can also make your mod look more like a Virtual Metal, Cloth, or Rubber Doll.
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