Here's the first official trailer for ModNation Racers, United Front Games' urban vinyl meets kart racing take on Sony's Play - Create - Share concept.

As I mentioned in my E3 impressions of ModNation Racers, you can see the game certainly doesn't skimp on charm, and the amount of options for customizing your racer, kart, and track is almost overwhelming. The frenetic action shown in the trailer does nothing, however, to assuage my fears that meat of the title will lie in the creation tools and the actual racing will fall flat. Of course, I say that with every intention of buying the game when it comes out just to spend countless hours making little tiny racing peoples.

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