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Title: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: MegaByte on May 25, 2006, 07:05:34 AM
Not so exciting.

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.

Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Artimus on May 25, 2006, 09:30:22 AM
Odd, almost every other site really loved this game, thought it was a ton of fun.
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Kairon on May 25, 2006, 09:39:16 AM
Maybe other sites are blinded by the Wii hype? Just ike everyone was blinded by ED hype?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on May 25, 2006, 09:47:12 AM
I didn't play the game, but I'm keeping up hope. Excite Truck looked really cool.
Title: RE:IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Avinash_Tyagi on May 25, 2006, 09:52:48 AM
Quote

Originally posted by: Kairon
Maybe other sites are blinded by the Wii hype? Just ike everyone was blinded by ED hype?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com



Or it could be just the opinions of one person after trying a 10 minute demo at E3.
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: MegaByte on May 25, 2006, 10:33:52 AM
Other people I talked to liked it.  I just didn't think it was so great.  I'd be interested in seeing a non-gamer play it.
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: KnowsNothing on May 25, 2006, 11:13:56 AM
BIG DAMN TRUCKS is going to be an awesome arcade racer. I don't care how many people former nintendo fans say it's bad, it's going to be fun!

YAHOO
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Bill Aurion on May 25, 2006, 11:42:09 AM
Considering the game was fun to watch, I don't see how it couldn't be fun...This opinion clashes with my own!
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on May 25, 2006, 01:54:26 PM
CONFUSION. INSANITY.
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Hostile Creation on May 25, 2006, 05:31:04 PM
"Even crashes award points, depending on their spectacularity."

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
Title: RE: IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Bloodworth on May 25, 2006, 05:31:55 PM
I liked Excite Truck a lot.  Hopefully they'll have these games spaced out or I'll be spending $600 on my new console anyways.
Title: RE:IMPRESSIONS: Excite Truck
Post by: Nick DiMola on May 25, 2006, 07:19:31 PM
I thought Excite Truck looked awesome as well. Over-the-top Arcade Racers have always been fun, especially when they are played in the arcade. I would imagine this controller will make it feel more arcade-ish than ever. I can't even begin to imagine how much money I am going to dump on the Wii on launch day. I think I am going to set aside like $600-$700 and blow every dollar.