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.
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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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