Stick with us - we're genuinely being serious. Yes, we know the emphasis is very much on multiplayer, but unlike Mario Kart there's a full on story-line to Modnation Racers. It's actually pretty funny too. We think a lot of people are going to enjoy it.

This trailer reveals some of the best bits from said career mode, so it's well worth checking out if you're still unsure about purchasing Sony's Mario Kart contender.

While we're here - we'd just like to say that the reason we're holding our Modnation Racers review back is because we want to check out the game running on retail servers. Sony's yet to flip the switch, so we're eagerly awaiting that. We'll tell you right here and right now though: you need to pre-order this game. We've already clocked up a ridiculous number of hours with the game and the multiplayer functions are completely turned off. Kratos help us when the servers go live.