01-01-2007, 01:21 AM
Excite Truck
ESRB: E for Everyone
For the Nintendo Wii
Trucks, Trucks, Trucks! Excite truck is all about going fast and getting those stars! Pull off an awesome jump boost and watch your truck go flying, then land it just right to get your will deserved turbo boost and blast on ahead.
That’s just some of the fun to be had with one of Nintendo launch titles Excite Truck.
Excite Truck doesn’t have a story line but it does have two single player modes, which are Excite Race and Challenge. Both of which offer some fun gameplay and intuitive control.
Excite Race puts you in the midst of 5 other Trucks as you compete to get the amount of stars needed to win the race. There are different classes that you can finish in, which vary from C to S. C being bad and S being the best. By getting certain things during the races such as Super Truck smashes, you can unlock new things. If you get 25 Super Truck Smashes then you get a new trophy and sometimes new trucks for certain achievements. You have for different levels you can compete in, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Once you beat each race in those categories you get to try and beat them in Super Excite difficulty.
Challenge mode is basically 6 different challenges, which are, drive through the beams, getting through the rings, and crashing other trucks. Completing these could help you in Excite Race mode and are fun on there own.
There is also Versus, which is only 2-player…with no AI…weird. But it’s still fun and engaging and I still love to race against a friend so at least there is multiplayer!
Excite Trucks visuals really blew me away, the trucks look great and the terrain is beautiful too. Sometimes it’s fun to crash to see the massive impact on your car which looks awesome. It’s also cool to watch your truck destroy other trucks too.
The Terrain looks very nice too, the terrain morphs look great and destroying trees and the like looks fantastic. Probably my favorite visually would be Scotland levels, there’s a terrain morph that knocks down part of the castle and it looks really cool.
I think the graphics were pretty good and can be improved and hopefully will be if Nintendo makes another racing game like this one.
Excite Trucks controls for the most part are good, you hold down the 2 button to go and the 1 button for brakes, and you press any direction on the d-pad to boost. You do all this while holding the Wii-mote on its side. That way you can tilt it to turn your truck.
This works well and I really enjoy it although sometimes I find when I’m in a really big turn the controller would go into a sort of ‘Dead Zone’ and I wouldn’t really turn anymore, so that was a bit of a problem but it wasn’t that bad.
All in all the gameplay for Excite Truck is fun and Engaging and will have you hooked for quite a while.
The audio really brings this game down, although you have the cool feature of being able to put your music on while you play via an SD card, the music was just…well, bad. It could’ve been a lot better music but unfortunately it was not.
Above all that the trucks didn’t sound real and they sounded somewhat odd when you boosted. But I did like the Sound for the Turbo jump and POW. But that was about all that I really liked with the music.
I bought it and I think it would be worth the extra dough, it’s fun and will keep you entertained. It has replay value too. If you beat it you can always go back and try to get perfect S scores on all the courses. Or you could play a friendly game of Versus.
Modes-8/10
Visuals-8.5/10
Controls-8.4/10
Audio-5/10
Value-9/10
Overall-8/10
