Post by: MegaByte on May 25, 2006, 07:05:34 AM
Excite Truck is a new take on the Excite Bike series of games. In this game, the Wii remote is held similarly to a steering wheel. Tilting left and right steer your truck while tilting forward and backwards angle your truck while in airborne jumps. The 2 button is used for gas and the 1 button for brake. Excite Truck has two means of rating the driver. The first is simply the position in the race. The second involves collecting star points. After a certain number of points are collected, rank increases. These star points are collected by performing various tricks while driving, such as a good jump or a good slide. Even crashes award points, depending on their spectacularity.
No damage is received upon crashing. After a short view of the crash, a crashed vehicle is placed back on the track and players must quickly mash the 2 button in order to get running again. The D-pad is used while airborne to perform a rocket boost. While the controls are intuitive and excellent for allowing anyone to pick up and play the game, control was rather loose overall, which particularly makes me question a non-gamer’s ability to actually play the game much better than a standard racing game.
The graphics in Excite Truck are pretty ugly, and they remind me somewhat of the old Monster Truck Madness games. Two stages were available, a desert stage and an island stage.
I ran into some oddities while playing the game. At one point I managed to have a cactus embedded in the middle of my truck. I kept moving forward and eventually I was able to clear the cactus. Obviously there is some work left to do on collision detection.
While Excite Truck is a decent demonstration of how a racing game can work on Wii, the game itself isn’t particularly exciting due to its sub-par visuals and imperfect control.
Post by: Artimus on May 25, 2006, 09:30:22 AM
Post by: Kairon on May 25, 2006, 09:39:16 AM
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Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on May 25, 2006, 09:47:12 AM
Post by: Avinash_Tyagi on May 25, 2006, 09:52:48 AM
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Originally posted by: Kairon
Maybe other sites are blinded by the Wii hype? Just ike everyone was blinded by ED hype?
~Carmine M. Red
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Or it could be just the opinions of one person after trying a 10 minute demo at E3.
Post by: MegaByte on May 25, 2006, 10:33:52 AM
Post by: KnowsNothing on May 25, 2006, 11:13:56 AM
YAHOO
Post by: Bill Aurion on May 25, 2006, 11:42:09 AM
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Post by: Hostile Creation on May 25, 2006, 05:31:04 PM
I dunno about everything else, but this is awesome news. I may get the game just for this, I love making crashes big and awesome and good-looking, even if it involves my own body
Post by: Bloodworth on May 25, 2006, 05:31:55 PM
Post by: Nick DiMola on May 25, 2006, 07:19:31 PM
