

There are different categories of items, each represented by a different color.

Of course, you can unleash attacks on your fellow ModNation racers yourself with weapon pods strewn about each of the game's thirty tracks. Yes, even those that go after first place can be avoided if you have enough meter juice to shield yourself with. This meter stores energy that allows you to either boost or shield yourself against oncoming attacks. When you drift around corners and turns, not only are you slightly faster and able to take these corners in a better way, but you fill up a special meter. You don't really feel like you're out of control unless you're taking a boost at a strange angle. For one, the racing controls feel tight and responsive. Racing is what you'd expect out of an arcade style kart racer with some alterations to make things feel fresh. These challenges include things like not hitting a wall for one lap, hitting five opponents with items, racking up a special amount of drift points, and other things that will make you not just race for the checkered flag, but to do so with some style. Like past ModNation Racers games, each race has three challenges to complete in order to unlock Mod parts, kart parts, and track pieces for the creation sections of the game. You can even choose to come back to that race and try it later. No, you simply choose a race and you can retry it as many times as you like. However, this isn't set up like Mario Kart, where it's one race after another. (There's a sixth unlockable tour that is unlocked when certain conditions are met.) The objective is to come out with the greatest amount of points after all five races are complete. This encapsulates five different tours of five races each. They aren't even in the game for the most part, outside of billboards.Īnyway, what is present now is Tour Mode. Biff and whatever that other guy's name was don't even do commentary anymore. ModNation Racers: Road Trip forgoes the story of starting off as a nobody racer and slowly becoming champion that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portables games contained. Unfortunately, Road Trip hits a few speed bumps along the way, not quite crossing the finish line in first place. With powerful hardware behind it, increased customization options, and the unique features of the Vita to work with, ModNation Racers: Road Trip should be an exceptional kart racer. Another such series is that of ModNation Racers. Various franchises that hit the PlayStation 3 have seen Vita versions, such as Uncharted, Hot Shots Golf, WipEout, among others. While some are better than others, there's no doubting the quality of what the Vita came out with right out of the gate. The PlayStation Vita's launch lineup consists of some exceptional titles, all building up and adding together to create one seriously powerful library of games right from the get-go.
