Excite Truck won't blow you away. The best way to describe it is that it's a decent racer.
Excite Truck features a variety of different tracks with different environments to deal with while racing. The tracks are themed to different countries like Scotland, Mexico, and Canada. The tracks within a certain country are a little bit different than the one before it. Some are long, some are short, some have different obstacles to dodge while racing.
Excite Truck is similar to Mario Kart when it comes to difficulty levels. The other racers get a little bit better with each rising difficulty, and sometimes it's hard to win.
When you race you hold the Wii-mote sideways. You hold down the 2 button to make your truck go, while the 1 button is your brake. By holding down any direction on the D-pad you will get a turbo boost. However, if used too much your truck will over heat and you will go slow for a few seconds until your engine cools down. Steering is a simple movement of tilting your remote to the right or left.
While your racing there are jumps at certain points on the track. When you hit one of the jumps, a correctly timed press on the D-pad will make you turbo jump. While you're in the air, you can press the 1 button and any direction on the D-pad, and then alternate tilting of your Wii-mote right and left or vise versa and your truck will do a spin.
When you racing you will be rewarded stars for doing certain things. Like doing spins, getting big air, drifting, and smashing other racers. You must get a certain number of stars on a course to move on. If you win the race you get 50 bonus stars, 25 for second, 15 for third, and 5 for fourth.
Aside from the main race career mode, there are some challenges that you can do. One includes racing through gates in a certain amount of time, and one where you hit targets in the air. There is also one where you must smash the other trucks to win.
There is multi-player in Excite Truck, but there is no Wi-Fi.
The career and challenges won't take you very long to beat, and there isn't much do to besides multi-player once you beat it. Excite Truck is still a decent, fun, little game that you won't regret getting.