if you liked excitetrucks even a lil, youll love this game. it does everything that title did, but better.
Got my copy today and if you were a fan of Excitetruck you will LOVE this game.
Any fans of Excite Truck out there should definitely pick this one up.
I want to know how the game compares to Mario Kart Wii.
I never played Excite Truck. I'm not a huge racing fan so I can generally get by with just Mario Kart for any given console generation. However, I've probably played more Mario Kart Wii than all other Mario Kart games combined due to local multiplayer. So I want to know how the multiplayer compares to MK Wii. How does steering compare? The game looks pretty crazy so I'm worried that the mini-games won't work very well in split-screen. What about the overall look/feel of the game? A big part of the allure of Mario Kart is the funny characters and wacky locals. I don't think Excitebots will have this same appeal.
In my opinion the two series have their own distinct flavor but they both have the same level of fun to me. Yes, ExciteBots is more on the zany/whacky side of things compared to its big brother ExciteTrucks what with items and minigames, etc, but its still very different from Mario Kart in how that fun is presented.
In MK(Wii) you have your cast of colorful characters and the racing mechanics are the same as they've been in every other MK (for the most part) and what sets it apart from your standard racer is the items. As i've mentioned (maybe not in this topic, but in the Impressions thread) the items in ExciteTrucks are NOTHING like those in MK:W. There's only 2 attack items i've encountered, and they're there more to be fun then to give you a winning edge.
ExciteBots (and trucks) isn't just about pulling in the lead and crossing the finish line, and this is the key difference to Mario Kart. While you race you have to pull off stunts to earn stars, every level has a designated number of points you must beat in order to succesfully pass that stage and move on to the next one. Gathering these stars is where the hectic gameplay makes it fun (for me) because on top of making sure you come in first (if only for the 50pts you win for getting the "1st place Bonus), you're doing turbo jumps, performing poll spins, gliding thru the air to pass thru rings or collecting butterflies! Hell, you get points for smashing into other bots, smashing your bot to peices (the worse the wreckage, the more the points).
One of my favorite lil additions to this is when you take a jump in the wrong direction, and you fly into the levels borders (normally invisible until you come close enough to them, then represented as a wall of yellow arrows pointing you in the right direction)... in Excite Trucks, you'd just keep falling until you landed, and chances are you'd be stuck on the wall and have to reverse to get back on track. In ExciteBots hitting that wall too hard, you don't crash but it causes your bot to stall, and you have to manauver the wiiremote to keep it from going into a tailspin; if you land on your wheels you get a recovery bonuses (as well as a cute animation from your bot!) of you crash, you get a crash bonus!
I'm going to go ahead and say it, i prefer ExciteBots to Mario Kart any day of the week. There's just so much more to do that the game is this constant adrenaline rush! If you're in the lead in Mario Kart, you don't really do much other than dodge incoming attacks from the rear.. and that gets boring if you're good at the game. In ExciteTrucks you have to keep your points up because even if you cross that finish line first, if the guy in second (or third!) rank up more points then you, they get the win. There's no break in action and i LOVE it! I had an online match yesterday against some dude named Kyle who thought he was the **** cuz he'd won a few matches, so i step up to challenge him... he bets 500pts on the race, comes in first.. i came in second but got the win (and the points!) because i pulled off more tricks than him. He stopped playing after that
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