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  • First thoughts: Modnation Racers PSVita

    Before buying Modnation racers on sale for £11.99 from the PSN store, I had low expectations, to say it’s another Mario Kart clone is an understatement. So far my expectations have been met, making Modnation Racers one of the most underwhelming purchases of my year so far.

    One of my biggest gripes has to be the way the menu is navigated. It’s all so inconsistent. Some menu buttons have to be pressed with the X button, whilst being navigated using the D-Pad, whilst over menu items HAVE to be touched. It makes for an annoying experience, and one I hope never gets repeated on any other game.

    The graphics certainly look more polished than some other racers out there.

    The game started up with no help or indication of what to do. You could navigate the menu screen, scrolling left and right to choose a specific option, (make a car, make a modnation racer, spend tokens, championship race etc.) but there was no help, nothing to say “welcome, lets do a few things to get you started. Over here we have the car garage where you can store all your vehicles…..” It made for an annoying start from the offset.

    Gameplay is clunky at the best of times, and that really isn’t an understatement. Framerate often drops way below the smooth 60fps in usually gets, meaning choppiness is to be expected throughout each and every race. Load times are also horrendous, my PC boots up faster than this game. It all makes for a bad experience. This all deters from the fact Sony have actually made a nice Mario Kart clone, albeit no where near as good, but hey things need time right?

    I shall write a full review soon, but so far I wouldn’t recommend buying Modnation Racers unless you really want something to play on your lonely Vita. I’m so far half way through the championship, and will write up a full review once I’ve played each of the game modes and finished the championship.

  • Just a quick update

    Just thought I’d update the site about what’s currently being played, so here it goes:

    Bought Modnation Racers for the Playstation Vita as it was on sale in the PSN Store for only £11.99, so I’ll be posting my first thoughts about it soon this week. So far I really don’t know how I feel about it, so time will tell.

    Dragons Dogma was released on Friday (25th of May) and initially whilst I was serving all day it seemed to outsell Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier, surprising and highly welcome. I can’t say sales will continue in this pattern, as knowing GAME they’ll stop stocking Dragons Dogma well before Ghost Recon, even when people still want it. (Exactly what happened with Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning) I bought it on day of release, and so far I know I’ll love the game, but I can’t seem to get hooked. It’s definitely epic, I can feel that, but because of all of the training I so far feel distant from the action. A first thoughts and review will be up soon.

    Going to post a review for Pullblox soon, the lovable puzzle game for the Nintendo 3DS. I’m about half way through the game, and loving every minute.

    On my PC I’ve started to play Saints Row the Third seriously, for the last 4 hours of gameplay I’ve just been messing around, but I hope to have it finished soon and review to follow shortly after.

    This all might take me a while as I’ve got an interview for a management position, so time must be given to preparing.

    Either way I’ll keep this site updated with content over the coming weeks.