ModNation Racers: Road Trip comes with a variety of online features, allowing you to compete and connect with friends and strangers in more ways than one. While many would presume the game includes online multiplayer, you can only go head-to-head against others through ad-hoc (local) multiplayer. This isn’t a new revelation, as Sony confirmed earlier this month that the only methods for race against other players is to connect locally or by exchanging ghosts. What is new is the puzzling rationale being used to describe why this decision was made.
In a post on the PlayStation Blog today, SCE San Diego’s director of product development, Erich Waas, outlined Road Trip’s online features. Ghosts and localized leaderboards should provide a nice asynchronous experience for those seeking that kind of multiplayer. And of course, ModNation’s biggest allure is the ability to create and share tracks, a feature that not only makes it into the Vita version intact, but brings with it backwards compatibility for the tracks created in the PS3 game.
