ModNation Racers

I picked up ModNation Racers for the PS3 (beware of lame auto-play music). It's kind of hard to resist a racing game that looks like two of my other favorite racing games, Mario Kart and TrackMania, bumped uglies and had a freaky lovechild.

You can create your own kart, player, and track, and share all of these with others. When I was online last night, someone had already uploaded a FLAWLESS Mario character, and a the A-Team van! It's only a matter of time before someone makes Laguna Seca or the Suzuka Circuit.

I built a track in about 5 minutes, just to see how everything worked, and it was great! It lets you get as granular as you would like for placing everything from scenery to boost strips, and also has a really sweet auto-fill feature that populates everything for you on a barebones track.

Oh and if you haven't played TrackMania Nations Forever, go get it right fucking now. It's here, on the right-hand side of the page. It's FREE, awesome, and easily one of the best PC racers out there. We used to play this after everyone was tired of getting destroyed in Quake 3 at after-office-hours LAN parties. How 1995 to 2005 is that? LAN party. Now we play with strangers on the internet and get called names. Anyway, TrackMania, great for adults, kids, you can play it with a controller, but it's great with the keyboard too.

Seriously, someone who is more talented and has more free time, needs to make Laguna. Now.