Best Wii Launch Title...
Excite Truck is just plain fun. It basically feels like a "me too" Burnout with a LOT of hangtime. It's not full featured yet, but will have enough playability to get you by until the next one comes out, and I truley hope this series will have as many sequels as Burnout because it really is fun. The changing environments in real time is a nice touch, and the interactive features like tornado's reminds me of Rumble racing! The series has a lot of potential, but at this point, the game is just plain fun. It's a 2 player trade off type game imo. Don't expect any lenghthy multiplayer venture here. The graphics are the best I've seen on Wii yet. Nice textures and bluring. Maintains a solid framerate even with loads of dust on the screen! It has some jaggies, but the only Wii game that I haven't seen aliasing on is Wii sports.
Sound is actually good. It's nice to have ONE game that isn't totally poluted by hiphop, or other trendy highschooler tunes that EA likes to milk so much. A bunch of crazed trucks flying through the air to some hairband guitar just works. Now uh, the sound effects seem nice from time to time, but a siren could be annoying if loud enough. Wish it had more swooshes like Burnout, but overall it's ok.