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Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Excite Truck is a lot of fun, lots of speed and air with cool tracks.

Fun for all ages!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a game that fully takes advantage of the WII. You hold the wii controller sideways and use it to steer, pop nitro and do crazy jumps. With a little practice you will be having a blast. If you want a game that doesn't require a lot of thinking but lots of fun for all ages get this.

Just plain ol' fashion fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just a purely fun game to play. Pop it in for a quick race anytime you feel like it. The courses are challenging as you progress through the cups.

Great Newbie Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fast-paced and action packed. My kids love to watch me playing this game and unlocking tracks, trucks, smashing up other trucks, etc. Very playable as two player action permits! The WII gaming systems just simply makes it easy. There is a 3 stage tutorial on how to control the trucks and how to do the special tricks that earn you stars during each race!

I highly recommend it!

Play-It-Again Sam!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I beat all the levels with a "B" ranking and am now working on getting to an "S" on all...lots of fun, yelling, shouting, laughing, cackling with sheer sadistic pleasure as I Super Truck Smash other trucks, etc.

It can be addictive.

I am a born-again gamer, in my mid-20's, lured back by the Wii.

Choose your vehicle wisely

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Nintendo Wii system supports this game (as if you didn't know). Cut and dry - this is a quick fix, high energy, sometimes frustrating game. Races themselves vary from 2 to 7 minutes long. Basically, you pick one of your eventual 21 trucks, pick a course, and then run a six truck race. Your objective is to score star ratings (1 thru 5) by smashing other trucks, drifting, flying through the rings, maintain as much air as you can get, aerial spinning, and dodging through trees. The result of amassing stars is to improve your finish ranking (D/C/B/A/S).

You run through the Cups (Bronze, Silver, Gold, & Platinum). First you have to beat the Excite Racing with an S Ranking in all your races. Then you can unlock Super Excite. Once you get an S Ranking in all those races (including the Diamond Cup), you unlock the Mirror Level which is, well, mirror versions of all the races.

Each Cup has 4-5 races tracks set in different countries. Race tracks are set in Mexico, China, Scotland, Canada, Finland, and Fiji until you unlock the eventual Diamond Cup and you go to the Nebula's Crystal Road (an amalgamation of all the setting tracks in a cosmic field). Mexico, China, and Scotland are great for star scoring, Canada and Fiji are the most fun tracks. During the races you can hit terrain changing icons, ring icons, and POW icons which make you temporarily power surged and can mow down trees and other trucks with ease (beware of rocks though). You'll learn to avoid sections of the track pathway, instead discovering the short cuts.

As you progress and get trophies (determined by 5 rating star stunts), you unlock new trucks to play in the game. You start in the Excite mode and end up with 10 (?) trucks to play. Once you defeat the Excite mode, you unlock Super Excite and then can unlock another 9 trucks. During game-play, if you race a truck 10 times or get 3 S Ranks on a truck you will unlock special paint jobs for each of the 19 trucks. Should you unlock the trucks and their alternate paint jobs, you automatically unlock the 20th vehicle in the Monster Truck which has the best stats (air hang time, handling, turbo boost, and traction for drifting). Now that you have all them open, should you beat the Excite, Super Excite, and Mirror levels with an S Rank in every race, you unlock the final vehicle, the Crazy Monster Truck which is nothing more than the Monster Truck stuck in power mode (you can run over trees and other trucks with no penalty crashes). Trucks will vary in skill vs terrain and there's some trucks you will use a minimum of times and others that will be your favorite (Dominator, Firefly, Rad, Mako, Saguaro, Wolverine).

In addition to the racing, you can play the extra skills games. There are three skill games: one is honing your ring jumping ability, two is testing your truck ramming ability, and third is your handling ability in which you have to drive through ever decreasing racing poles. About the only other option to the game is to race head to head with a buddy which is actually pretty darn boring.

Overall, it's an addicting game and you'll lose track of time but `defeating' the game and unlocking everything causes you to lose interest. About the only thing left is to go through with the Crazy Monster Truck and beat all your times and star ratings. It's a lot of fun initially but you will eventually grow tired of it.

Unexpected fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this title because my boys (7 and 5) love the idea of racing monster trucks. When it came in, I learned how to control the game and eventually completed the Basic training for the kids. Once in the game, they had a blast and so did I!

I don't expect realistic graphics on the wii so I wasn't disappointed. They are good enough to not distract while playing. I wish I could change my angle of view slightly at times but that may be a setting I never saw.

Playability is where this game shined. It is an impressive marrying of the wii controller into a driving game. My only complaint is that the controller has to be held flat with buttons up as opposed to facing you for steering and control.

I fully recommend this game as a solid dose of fun.

I LOVE this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My husband bought me Wii Excite Truck and a Wii Wheel for Christmas. Man were my kids jealous! This game is so much fun! It's fun with the wii-mote, but I highly recommend the wheel for an even more interactive experience. I can't wait to get MarioKart and an extra wheel and go head-to-head with my husband, who always whines that I won't let him use my wheel when we play now.

Good, Clean, Addictive Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As someone who grew up playing Excitebike on the NES, I harbor a lot of fondness for the series. When I saw that there was a new installment on the Wii, I couldn't resist trying it out. Just as its predecessors, Excite Truck is a triumph of playability and fun, and a worthy addition to your game library.

Before you start playing, you're forced to create a profile and take the tutorial before you can start racing. You'll cover the basics and get a feel for the controls, which definitely take a couple races to understand and become comfortable, but once you've got that out of the way they'll really feel intuitive. It really tickled me time and time again to sit down and play this game simply due to the controls; turning the remote like a steering wheel is really satisfying, more so than any steering peripheral I've used for PS2 or Xbox. The same freedom of movement can be debilitating, though, as you have to hold the remote fairly still if you want to go straight, and if you turn the remote too far you can lose control of your truck momentarily. These are small gripes, but my younger brothers (10 and 12) had these problems with the controls, so take note if you plan on buying for someone younger than 13.

Most of my big complaints have nothing to do with the racing itself, but rather with the game's interface. As I mentioned before, you have to create your own profile before you can start racing. What I'd hoped when I saw this was that I would be able to have multiplayer races against my brothers, each of us representing our own profile on the game, but this is not the case. (Maybe Wii Sports has spoiled me.) You have to choose a profile, and that's the one you're stuck in. On a similar note, the game will let you know when you break a record within your profile for longest drift and air. However, rather than making these exclusive to the track, motivating you to get the biggest air you can off that one jump, these records pertain to every race you do. What could have been a great source of replay value instead feels irrelevant.

Trifles aside, Excite Truck is an extremely fun game. The graphics are similar to the PS2's more recent Burnout titles, which is fine by me. There's an option to load your own music in place of the soundtrack if you have some sort of data card, but I don't know anything about this, and the in-game music was pretty good anyway. There are tons of different trucks with different stats, allowing a multitude of different playing styles, and the tracks are equally diverse and well designed - it ranks with Wii Sports in sheer playability and fun factor.

I recommend it to anyone who owns a Wii.

This is why they developed the Wii

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You can tell from the start that this game (made by Nintendo itself of course) is an excellent example of what the Wii is all about. The controls take getting used to, especially if you don't have much Wii experience. But once you learn them, you're good to go because they are completely intuitive. But what makes this game stand apart from other racing games is that it's FUN! You're off-roading with giant trucks on all kinds of terrain. The handling, jumps, and stunts are what really set this game apart from games that foolishly strive for realism. You can miscalculate a jump and fall for what seems to be over 100 feet, land on all 4 wheels on the beach, and take off instantly like it was nothing. Watching your truck fall is scary sometimes, because in real life that would be instant death... but on Excite truck, it's a lot of fun! The simplicity of the game is beautiful too... your Gradma could learn this game in 10 mins by completing the tutorial. But don't get me wrong... the game gets HARD for those of you looking for a challenge. By the end, your steering and boosting has to be EXACT if you want to complete the entire game. I like that though because there are plenty of easy courses at the beginning for people who aren't looking for that kind of challenge.

BUT the best thing about this game is the 2 player mode... if you have a tv big enough for the split screen to look good, then this is one of the best 2 player games I have ever seen.

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