Video Game Reviews: Wii
Excite Truck
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3.0637
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Excite Truck
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Games are Fun
The game starts you off nice and simple. It begins with several tutorials, ranging from basic (just plain driving) to advanced (special mid-air tricks). Once you've completed a few of the easier tutorials, you're welcome to complete more, or to sink your
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Yahoo! Games
The first good sign is how well the Wiimote works. You hold it sideways in your hand and tilt it left and right to steer your vehicle. Surprise! It works great. If you had doubts about the viability of the Wiimote for traditional control schemes, this
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The Laser
ExciteTruck doesn't take long to suck in the player, with an addictive mix of speed, challenge and fun. This is an arcade-style racer at heart, and as such it doesn't need much of a learning curve. You can immediately feel the difference Wii's controller
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eToychest
Excite Truck is a very fun, fast, and – dare I say it – exciting return to grass roots arcade style racing. There no tuning to worry about, no license tests, and no underground street cred here. All of those things can be found elsewhere. Excite
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GamingTrend
It plays smooth and fast, and like a bright flame it burns out earlier than it should.
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NintendoWorldReport
This is Nintendo's best console racer since "F-Zero GX," although it will appeal to a somewhat different crowd than that hardcore series.
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Deeko
The intuitive, though expected, use of the Wii remote presents unique gameplay options that enhance the control and feel of your vehicle and go a long way towards making the gameplay more interesting.
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Nintendo Spin
On the other hand, Excite Truck features one of the worst soundtracks I have ever heard. It kind of resembles the rock/metal of the Guilty Gear series but is much, much more annoying than it is cool. This is the kind of music that rebellious teenagers in
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IGN
As a game that bursts right out of the gate as a launch title for the system, Excite Truck is a fulfilling, fun, energetic arcade-style racer that features a good balance of technology and technique.
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GamersMark
Excite Truck offers everything fans of Burnout, Rush (pre-L.A.), or F-Zero could want, and more. The game is not about what place you come in, rather it focuses on the player’s creativity and determination to get the highest score possible. Once the
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GameZone
A unique, exciting, and replay value-packed learning experience. ("Learning" in the sense that the game teaches you how to drive with a Wii
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Gamerz-Edge
Well, then, how do you pass a race? Stars can also be earned in a variety of other ways—for instance, by catching big air, crashing recklessly into other racers, and doing “tree runs” (where you drive full-speed through a forested area without
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Lawrence
Once you get a hang of it, however, Excite Truck is a somewhat entertaining title with some interesting gameplay features. Rather than simply focusing on finishing in first, a lot of emphasis is on obtaining star points. You get these by drifting around
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WHAM! Gaming
a Canadian level that is not an erroneous winter wonderland dotted with igloos and ski slopes. Fellow Canucks can breathe a sigh of relief. Our stage is a wilderness scene called "Puddle Jump" full of lush forests and glimmering lakes. Excite Truck develo
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Wii Advanced
Although not super deep, Excite Truck is a fun little Wii game. I’m most disappointed by the lack of four-player split-screen.
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Daily Game
The game itself is pretty straightforward stuff- you start with a few unlocked offroad vehicles (trucks, dune buggies, etc) and race them across various wilderness tracks. As you race, you can pick up transformation power ups, which instantly change the
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Wham Gaming
a Canadian level that is not an erroneous winter wonderland dotted with igloos and ski slopes. Fellow Canucks can breathe a sigh of relief. Our stage is a wilderness scene called "Puddle Jump" full of lush forests and glimmering lakes. Excite Truck develo
...read the complete Excite Truck review at Wham Gaming
UnderGroundOnline
Driving in Excite Truck has you holding the Wii Remote horizontally, with a hand at each end. To turn around corners, all you need to do is turn the Remote as you would a wheel. Boosting is handled by the d-pad, and the "1" and "2" buttons handle
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Gaming Age
At first I wasn’t enjoying it too much due to the very sensitive controls, but give it a half an hour and I think most gamers will acclimate to the remote very easily.
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GamePro
What works about Excite Truck? Simply put, its use of the Wii Remote provides a more tactile feel to an otherwise straightforward destruction derby racer. Without the Wii's controller, Excite Truck would barely be worth a glance.
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Extreme Gamer
The racing is fast, fun and innovative with the Nintendo motion sensitive controller. The ride might not last long, but while you're behind the wheel you'll have a smile on your face.
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AllGame
Giving a nostalgic nod to Excitebike and Excitebike 64, Excite Truck features single-or two-player off-road racing on a variety of dirt and gravel courses. Players steer their way into the victory lane by tilting the controller left or right and
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NTSC uk
Using the remote in this fashion does allow for more precise control during races, which is quite necessary given how the game works. Needless to say real world physics do come into play, even if the laws of gravity are occasionally exaggerated. The tilt
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ZTGameDomain
import your own music via an SD card full of MP3 files, but nothing can hide just how horrible the sound coming through the Wii-mote speaker really is.With the current crop of racers trying to be the most realistic sim on the market it is nice to finally
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1UP
Shallow fun after all, and it's fun nonetheless. On that mental list we all have about the Wii's capabilities, it's safe to cross off
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Games Radar
With no online play and only two-players a time, there's little chance people will still be revving up Excite Truck in a few month's time.
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Cheat Code Central
Don’t expect a lot of “play” out of it the first time through as you probably won’t want to work so hard to reach the coveted “S” ranking.
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Game Informer
As undeniably fun as this game is, its downfall is its lack of depth. You can burn through the initial difficulty setting in the career mode in a couple hours.
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GameSpot
Excite Truck is a spiritual successor of sorts to the classic NES motorcycle racing game, Excitebike. This fast-paced Wii truck racing game takes a few of the mechanics from the original game, but it largely strikes out on its own. What it gives you is
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Amped IGO
Taking a page from Excite Bike, you can only use so much turbo before your engine becomes exhausted. Your turbo recharges slowly throughout, returning more quickly while flying through the air, and reaching maximum automatically while going through water.
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GameBrink
Blurry textures, low polygon counts, and not much scenery to fill the background about sum it up. Fortunately you’ll be racing so fast you mostly won’t see this stuff.
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GameTrailers
Excite Truck has about as much in common with Excite Bike as Mario Kart does. Looking at the game on its own merits, it’s a shallow experience with a simple, yet finicky control scheme.
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Armchair Empire
Progress through Excite Truck doesn't just mean winning races. Performing rad power slides, collisions, tree runs, or massive air will earn you stars...(I can't believe I wrote
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Game Revolution
It’s a fun game with great control, a portent of good things to come, but sports a bargain title’s worth of content while asking for a full price.
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Digital Entertainment News
play MP3s. All in all a serviceable title. Where Excite Truck falls short is the multiplayer. As a launch title for a system that is supposed to bring in new people to videogames, and to help sell the console that is supposed to be about people playing to
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GameSpy
The lack of decent multiplayer and total lack of online play hurt the longevity, but if you absolutely need a racer to play at launch, you can't really do any better than this one.
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Gaming Target
While the mechanics of the game are fun, and it all sounds exciting on paper, the overall experience is marred by clunky and unnecessary controls, and the fact that once you’ve played an hour of Excite Truck, you’ve seen just about all there is to
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DarkStation
It isn't all that often that we see new consoles hit the market, but when they do they have quite a major impact on the gaming masses, and thus has been
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GameDaily
Casual gamers will have a ball with it, though people "in the know" should look elsewhere to get their racing fix. While Excite Truck provides genuine thrills, its lack of modes and most importantly, online play, keeps it from being a must buy.
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