But, if there’s a lesson to be learnt in life, it’s that perseverance can pay off and things can grow on you. Right now, ModNation Racers looks about as appealing as drinking coffee and reading newspapers – ten years ago. It’s very hands on, as the game supports the touch screen quite a lot, but the lack of tutorials and help leaves you with quite a saving on shampoo bill at the end of the day. How do I rotate these ramps so they actually point in the direction I want to drive in? Well guess what? Now I have no hair left. The help system didn’t offer any valuable advice, and when eventfully I figured out how to do it, I was posed with another dilemma. I literally scratched my head for 10 minutes until my scalp was red raw.
You place by touching the screen – but wait – you pressed the wrong part of the track. When you come to placing props on there though – jumps, obstacles, weapons, trees and decorations – it’s not the easiest of affairs.
You start off by drawing your track on the touch screen (very good) and then you can scroll around the track with the back touch panel (which can be a fiddle) raising or lowering your track to add diversity – so far, not bad. I remember playing the PS3 version and crafting some beautiful tracks, but the PS Vita makes hard work out of something that should be pretty easy. The main attraction, I thought, would be the track editor. When you’re not on a screen that shows a menu, the tracks are nice and cartoony, and the weapon effects look good, but the level of polish here for a full priced PS Vita title is pretty minimal. Visually, N does okay, but the menu systems don’t look remotely HD so they look really dull and washed out on the OLED screen that the PS Vita proudly presents. There are not many exciting sound effects either it’s not a thrilling experience for your ears. The soundtrack is pretty dull it’s a couple of the same tracks looped while racing and during menu intervals.
ModNation Racers for the PS Vita is one of those titles that takes some getting into – and on first glance, it doesn’t offer a lot. Quite frankly, it would have bored me. What does any of this have to do with ModNation Racers: Road Trip you ask? Well, it’s grown on me. Like my new grown up lifestyle, I’ve come to love it – although the thought drinking Brazilian roast and keeping up to date with the financial section in the UK’s most pretentious newspaper wasn’t exactly a thought that would have ignited my fires all those years ago. Sometimes things grow on you – a bit like a mole or a wart. Not that I didn’t used to shower when I was younger, but I certainly didn’t drink coffee and read The Times. My morning routine consists of a shower, a fresh coffee and a look at the newspapers.
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