“We felt it was time to take advantage of next-generation hardware and combine the karts with the play, create, share genre of user-generated content.” “We think of this as the next-generation of karting,” he said.

This game is a cross of Mario Kart and LittleBigPlanet, the infinitely moddable 3-D platform game from 2008 that sold millions on the PS 3. And that’s what sets it apart from past kart games, which include huge hits such as Mario Kart, Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong. The modifications are so detailed that they use every once of the processing power of the PlayStation 3, Sochan said. The feedback was that players wanted even more tools to further customize the game, so the company doubled down on its investment in variability. The company had created modification tools and set players loose to test them.

It gives new meaning to the phrase “fully customizable,” and it explains why United Front Games has been working on the game since 2007. You can move those eyes around, even to the back of the head, and then obsess over every detail. With just a couple of clicks, you can pick from among 247 different types of cartoon eyes and then put them on the head of your avatar, or game character.

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