Mario Kart killer? Mod Nation Racers

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wholikeswood on 20 December 2009

ModNation officially kills Mario Kart.

http://scrawlfx.com/2009/12/modnation-racers-beta-spawns-incredibly-customizable-character-creations

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Torillian on 20 December 2009

wholikeswood said:

ModNation officially kills Mario Kart.

http://scrawlfx.com/2009/12/modnation-racers-beta-spawns-incredibly-customizable-character-creations

I love the Joker and Kenny from those. I hope that there's some way for people to share these customizable characters, because I'm not nearly aesthetically minded enough to do something that well myself.

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IllegalPaladin on 20 December 2009

Holy crap that's awesome!

Hopefully they don't unleash the censor brigade on those.

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huaxiong90 on 20 December 2009

Yeah, there's even the Master Chief! Free advertising for Ms and Nintendo.

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MRFENIX on 20 December 2009

I would like to see a game kill another game... how is that possible?

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shinsa on 20 December 2009

yea i agree that i wont be a mario kart killer but it seems to be looking great! and from what ive seen it'll be better then horrendous mario kart wii.

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huaxiong90 on 20 December 2009

MRFENIX said:
I would like to see a game kill another game... how is that possible?

It's called a figure of speech.

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binary solo on 20 December 2009

MaxwellGT2000 said:

It's not going to kill Mario Kart in sales that's for sure. But Mod Nation Racers has one big mechanic that is simply awesome, the track editor, I booted up the beta today I played for a few minutes and started to make my own track, and it's probably the best custom editor I've ever used. I made a pretty awesome track within seconds no lie, and I can expand upon it later making hard to see short cuts, make little artistic designs if I want, or let the game populate the track for me which is what I did and it turned out pretty fun.

So far I'd say Mario Kart still has it in the gameplay since I didn't get the feeling of kart variation, the whole drift mechanic, etc. but the beta keeps kicking me offline and doesn't let you play splitscreen so there are little things I've yet to see.

Anyone else in the beta played it yet? What are your feelings so far?

You're playing with fire you know. Not in terms of flame bait, but in terms of karmic consequences. "X game killer" is a pretty good way to hex a game's sales. Yeah yeah, KZ2 has sold decently, but not in proportion to the hype and [by most accounts] quality of the game. Forza has been a GT killer from the day the first game came out. After 3 tries it still hasn't come out from under GT's shadow.

Now you've just given ModNation Racers some bad mojo by using the "k" word again. Can't we just call it the true successor to Crash Team Racing (as opposed to that Jak racer) and leave other console's masterpieces out of it?

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