Monster Games arcade racer with spectacular jumps and barrel rolls. Precise tilt-Wiimote controls, snappy tracks, stylish challenges. An excellent Wii arcade racing series, recommended for fans of unfiltered arcade thrills.
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Category
Racing1 player7+
Description
Off-road racing game developed by Monster Games and published by Nintendo in Japan in February 2007. Monster trucks jump over mounds, slide in mud and perform daring jumps in varied natural settings. Driving by tilting the Wii Remote sideways, terraforming by accumulating trees and hills along the route to create jumps, turbo and rated style. Wii European launch title demonstrating motion sensor precision.
Excite Truck review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
The scenery deforms under the wheels, and that is the whole subject. Monster Games raises the earth in real time, swells a hill in front of the bonnet, digs out a ravine, and you literally watch the relief being sculpted during the race. The bodywork, painted in heavily saturated flat colour, stays identifiable at full speed among folds of terrain that did not exist a second earlier.
The original soundtrack is instrumental rock with no dead time, written to lock onto the jump phases and pick up again on landing. Rare for the time, the game also lets you fetch your own tracks from a memory card and race to them, which amounts to letting the player sign the atmosphere of their own race.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Tilting the remote to pilot huge trucks launched at full speed, jumping hills and defying gravity in supercharged races: this arcade racer bets everything on sensation and excess. Skimming a crash, chaining stunts and scoring points in mid-air delivers an instant rush. Snappy, spectacular and gleeful, an automotive blow-off without the slightest fuss.
An arcade racing game from Monster Games, Excite Truck leans on speed, oversized jumps and morphing terrain, steered by tilting the Wiimote like a wheel. The sense of freedom, the scoring system rewarding daring stunts and the immediate snappiness make it a very successful blast for the console's launch. Repetitive tracks and limited content cap the lifespan. A joyful arcade racer for fans of fast thrills and motion driving.
