Smashing into my livingroom with excitment and style
Excite Truck takes the controller and tips it sideways and turns the little guy into a virtual racing wheel. I normally don’t play racing games, yet something in excite truck brings out a lot of fun and emotion while playing. You are not racing to see who can pass the finish line first in the race, but you are playing for the most points possible. You go off a jump and do 360’s or 720’s and then you can go through thousands of trees without hitting one, and that’s how you get points to win the race.
If you can think back to when the release of super smash bros for N64 came out, this was not a typical fighting game, it added something more than just another round of kicks and punches. Excite Truck dose the same and truly redefines the concept of a racing game. Excite Truck also offers tons of different courses and each one has a lot going on.
There are many strengths and a few let downs. I like the fact that you can use your own music and put MP3 files on a SD card and use them while playing. The controls are a little hard to get used to and you’ll need an extra half hour to show a friend how it works. The most noticeable letdown is the fact that Excite Truck is not online enabled. Nintendo had originally felt they would release Excite Truck with online play and then they just chucked the whole Idea out the window. Exciting enough or not is the fact that Nintendo added the multiplayer aspect to the game. Multiplayer feels like it’s just in there because it needs to be, and half of the fun things in the original mode are not in the multiplayer option.
Overall Excite Truck is an over-exceptional racing game despite the missing online play. You and your friends will have a lot of fun playing this game for hours on end. If you like getting boosts, flying a few thousand feet in the air, and smashing into other trucks Excite Truck is the game for you. –Kris Hute