ModNation Racers will be better than that Nintendo racer

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Torillian said:
@Zen and Twist

I'm curious, at what point does Kart Racing become a subgenre instead of every game that comes out with Karts being a ripoff of Mario Kart?

I mean you guys recognize TPS as a subgenre right? And don't call every one of those an RE4 clone.

Not every kart racing game is a ripoff of Mario Kart. Just the ones that are exactly like it in every way. Kind of like Dead Space, while a great game, is a RE4 ripoff.

I think Sony is releasing this game to compete with or to take a ride on the popularity of Mario Kart, and I think the game looks like Mario Kart, and has a similar game structure, because it was designed around Mario Kart. I believe @ Sony the tagline behind closed doors was "Mario Kart with user created levels."

In fact, just now, I went to youtube to just make sure I remembered right and that the game looked like Mario Kart, and it looks even more like Mario Kart that I'd remembered. Gameflow, artstyle, gameplay, and atmosphere are identical. It even has reskins of some of the Bowser's Castle obsticles from MKWii in it.

That said, I didn't come here to rip on Modnation racers, but imo, it is very much a mario kart clone for the Sony machine, just like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno were to RE4 and GoW respectively. :P It's my opinion, and I'm not trying to force it on anyone....

I'm also not saying which one is better or worse, btw. A clone game can surpass its original.