Excitetruck for Wii

[Mutley]

Saw the very polished TV advert, it looks good fun with some mates.

Is it worth buying?

 

[Jintor]

I will say this, because it is all I know about this game.

So I got ExciteTruck a couple weeks ago.
I enjoyed its bikier predecessors, and I cannot pass up the promise of trucks and excitement sharing one environment (who could?). This, combined with a soundtrack made up of a single electric guitar loop and jets of fire shooting out of every orifice on the vehicles definitely lives up to the manliness factor.

Seriously. Every level has the same music, and it's just one guitar riff over and over again. This would be very inconvenient if the game didn't have one of them fancy "make your own soundtrack" features, where you can upload .mp3s of your own crap to be played instead and it is awesome. So it's okay.

If fire determines how cool a game is, ExciteTruck is cool.
If you get a speed boost, your car catches on fire.
If your engine explodes, your car catches on fire.
If you park in a no-parking zone, your car catches on fire.

Discerning good fire from bad fire can be challenging.

As for the magical tilt-sensing controls: I think they work pretty well. I'm not a huge racing game enthusiast, but it's much easier to get pulled into a game where physically leaning into turns is functional and doesn't just make you look like a chump.
The game seems kinda short, but what it does have is pulled off alright. Except multiplayer is only two-player, which is LAME.

Oh, great. Looks like I didn't even say that.

 

[Mutley]

Only 2 player? Scratch that then.

 

[Xune]

Apparently it aint so great, although Eurogamer paints a fairly rosey picture. But then if you're buying a Wii for traditional console games, you're probably missing the point of it.

Past Zelda and Wii Play there simply isn't anything on the Wii worth getting, although the latter is only worth it if you need that pack-in controller.

You can look forward to Cooking Mama, Phoenix Wright, Trauma Centre and Mario Galaxy this year. Till then all you've got for entertainment is the virtual console, which is just damn lazy in my opinion.

The best thing to do right now is skip the Wii (not sure if you have one already) and grab a DS, it has a large catalogue of quality games. Then grab a Wii Christmas '07 (or a in bargain January '08) when you'll be guarenteed to be flooded with quality (and some not so quality) titles.

 

[lePobz]

I've had a Wii since xmas and it's been priceless for having WiiSports and WiiPlay tournaments with family and friends. Don't wait for xmas '07, i'm glad I didn't.

 

[Fishlore]

I think it's a fun game, my roomate has it. I've spent more than a few hours playing it. I don't know what it costs, but it doesn't QUITE feel like a "full" game. I've only played single player though so I don't know how it is multi.

I like the controls, the way it feels with vibration, the sound from the remote and the deformable terrain. Everything else is your typical racing game stuff. I'm not really into racing games so saying I like this is saying a lot. I'm just not sure it's worth the cost of a full game.

I guess I have a little nastalgia as well from the first NES game I ever owned, Excitebike.

 

[Stigmata]

It's pretty meh. Neat idea, decent execution, pretty fun to play, but next to no replayability, multiplayer or otherwise.

 

[Reginald]

I'm pleased with the purchase. Because I know I can just drop in and play whenever I want a bit of speed and exhilaration. But, similarly to the FPSs currently on the Wii, it'll be surpassed within a year and never be heard of again.

I'd happily buy a sequel too.

A solid 8/10 from me.

 

[StardogChampion]

It's funny that there are so many games on Wii that get so much love/hate from people. Excite truck and Red Steel would get low reviews on other consoles, but because of the Wii's control scheme it can make these games insanely fun.

 

[Fishlore]

I hear that Stardog. It's nice to talk about the Wii for the sole reason that technical talk about shaders and poly counts and all of the other stuff that isn't important to me are thrown to the wayside and people actually talk about gameplay, control and fun factor.

 

[Jintor]

You can look forward to Cooking Mama, Phoenix Wright, Trauma Centre and Mario Galaxy this year.

Hang on, what was that?

You can look forward to Cooking Mama, Phoenix Wright, Trauma Centre and Mario Galaxy this year.

One more time.

Phoenix Wright

OMG NEED Wii NOW!

 

[smwScott]

It's funny that there are so many games on Wii that get so much love/hate from people. Excite truck and Red Steel would get low reviews on other consoles, but because of the Wii's control scheme it can make these games insanely fun.

I haven't played Excite Truck, but the Wii controls do not make Red Steel extremely fun. Nor would mouse/keyboard or a gamepad. A bad game is a bad game, and after the 15 minute novelty value has worn off all you're left with is the core game.

The place where the Wii could shine is by doing games that could not possibly be done with other controllers. If anything, Red Steel was a bit worse than it may normally have been.

 

[Reginald]

Hang on, what was that?

One more time.

OMG NEED Wii NOW!

I'm not one for putting people off buying Wii, but there has been no confirmation of a Phoenix Wright game for Wii. Rumours, but no confirmation. Still, buy one anyway.

And.... Red Steel was hugely fun and actually a really good game. The best console shooter I have player since Timeplitters 2. Plus the controls, which a lot of people didn't like, were, in my opinion, spot on.

 

[Jintor]

I'm not one for putting people off buying Wii, but there has been no confirmation of a Phoenix Wright game for Wii. Rumours, but no confirmation. Still, buy one anyway.

I was going to get one for Brawl anyway. But a Phoenix Wright game on Wii would be ace. Still want Gyakan... Syukiano... uh... Phoenix Wright 3 on DS, though. WHO IS GODOT? I DON'T UNDERSTAND JAPANESE! TOO... MANY... MEMES... GIVING AWAY... SPOILERS!

I think an Elite Beat Agents game for the Wii would be pretty cool, too, but I think DDR got in first. Pity...