ExciteBots: Trick Racing

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ExciteBots: Trick Racing

The ability to exchange ghost data with friends online via WiiConnect24 and challenge them to outdo your most daring tricks.
Insect and animal inspired off-road bot racers able to walk, fly and drive that via pick-up-and-play controls catch big-air and provide thrills at blinding speed like no other game in the Excitebike series.
Having your vehicles drive, walk or fly around the track quickly is one thing, but it's more important to go around in style. Players earn stars for huge jumps, cool tricks and daring feats at high speed.
A wide variety on mini-games, including soccer, poker, bowling, darts and clowns among others, that occur during races.
Online multiplayer support for up to six player via a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in both Excite Race and Poker Race modes, and 2-player multiplayer versus mode in local play.

Excitebots: Trick Racing for Nintendo Wii...High-speed action. Robotic insect and animal racers. Wii Wheel controls. Bowling poker clowns - and sandwiches! Add them all together and you get the wild nonstop fun of Excitebots: Trick Racing. The

Rating: (out of 25 reviews)

List Price: $ 39.99

Price: $ 13.70

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Halicon5
July 12th, 2010 - 02:06

Review by Halicon5 for ExciteBots: Trick Racing
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Excitebots is a unique creature. It is the spiritual successor to Excite Truck and looks very, very similar. But mixed in with the extreme arcade racing action are a host of mini-games and off the wall ideas that fly straight into you at 100+ mph. Most other games fail when attempting to pull off a wacky-racing game. Most of the ideas in this game are kind of terrible if you think about it very much. Somehow though, Excitebots manages to take some of the strange ideas and throws them into the game and it all just works. If anything, this game is what I’d expect if the people who designed WarioWare decided to make a racing game.

GAMEPLAY: Uhhh… crazy? Although this game is a racing game, simply racing around the race tracks simply won’t cut it. You are expected to pull off tricks and stunts, go bowling, play soccer, throw pies at clowns, race dangerously close to trees, play darts, and play poker… all while racing in a frog. Or a beetle or a turtle. If that sounds strange, that’s because it is. The “vehicles” are all animal themed robots, but their designs fairly forgettable and lack real personality. Little mini-challenges pop-up all over the place in the races. Best of all, the game has an insane sense of speed that is only rivaled by the likes of classic games such as Wipeout or F-Zero. My only serious complaint about the game is it suffers from “Invisible Wall Syndrome.” The levels look huge and open and the tracks are quite wide, but invisible walls are annoying.

CONTROLS: Solid. The controls are surprisingly good considering it is entirely motion controlled. Definitely better than Excite Truck, and I honestly feel the controls are much more responsive than Mario Kart. I haven’t played a lot of racing games on the Wii, but overall, this is one of the better racers as far as controls are concerned. The game supports the wheel accessory as well and a version of the game is sold with the peripheral packed in. I don’t personally recommend the steering wheel because I think it’s an overpriced piece of plastic, but that’s just my opinion. Each to their own.

GRAPHICS: Good and Bad. When the game is going slow the game looks pretty plain. The textures are lo-res and some of them are downright ugly. Kick the speed up a notch and the motion blur kicks in. When the game is blazing past you without a hint of slowdown, it shines and you quickly forget the low-res textures.

MULTI-PLAYER: Very good but it could be better. Although the game has a 2-player split-screen mode, I’m not impressed. As a general rule though, I don’t like split-screen in most games though unless I can get 4 players in on the action. The other side of the coin is that the online mode is great. I was able to hook up with a match in minutes and found myself playing with 5 other players. While playing online you can bet your stars, which are used to purchase various unlockables throughout the game. There are two online modes, Excite and Poker. I’m not a fan of Poker, but I think my reflexes are just a little to slow to be good at that one. My only two complaints about online multi-player are that the game uses the horrid Friend Code system and doesn’t give you the opportunity to just add any of the people you meet online to your list of friends. The other complaint I have is a lack of voice chat, which is a glaring omission since I have the the WiiSpeak peripheral gathering dust.

SOUND: Oh please make it stop… I’m going to have nightmares about being trapped in an elevator. I can’t believe someone recorded this music let alone actually paid someone to include it in the game. The music is annoying, lame, and extremely repetitive. Thankfully, a music volume option is available in the game. Sadly, the Excite Truck feature that allowed players to put their own play lists together on an SD card is no longer present. That terrible music just makes the absence of the SD music card that much more noticeable.

REPLAY-VALUE: High. The game has 20 levels, multiple mini-game modes, and a solid multi-player element. At launch the game was priced at two levels ($40 by itself and $50 with the wheel accessory), but I would have bought the game at the higher price even without the accessory. The fact that it is more affordable only makes this game more attractive.

All in all, I recommend this game to just about everyone. At the very least, give this game a rental. The arcade action is frantic and crazy. The sense of speed makes this just about the fastest game available on the Wii. Online multi-player is very good. Best of all, the game is just plain fun.
Bonds
July 12th, 2010 - 02:11

Review by Bonds for ExciteBots: Trick Racing
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This is an addicting arcadey fast-paced racer.

One of the best Wii games of the year so far. And one of the better Wii games overall.

I really love taking jumps in this game or doing 360s in the air or kicking a field goal or making a sandwich or running on 2 legs or speeding through the trees. It is truly over the top arcadey action. And what a videogame should be.

It plays really smooth and they’ve done a great job of seamlessly incorporating all this whimsical over the top videogamey non-sense into the game. It works really well.

The online mode is seamless as well and smooth.

In addition there is head to head racing and a few others modes like Poker Racing where you try to make Poker hands as you race along the track.

Don’t be fooled. This is a very solid game.

The lows are the graphics and personality of the game can be a bit generic. But it would be a shame if you ignored the game because of that.

Must buy!!!
C. Kruschke
July 12th, 2010 - 03:00

Review by C. Kruschke for ExciteBots: Trick Racing
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I purchased this game strictly because of how incredible Excite Truck was – and if you don’t have that you are really missing out on something great. You can unlock several different types of animal/insect types of car-type “bots” and then you race these throughout several different series’ of tracks that are sited throughout the world – Scotland, China, Tasmania, near Mt Kilimanjaro, Mexico, etc. It also has a great multi-player option and mini-games that allow you to hone or enhance your skills at different parts of the game.

One drawback is that you have to complete many many races in order to build enough stars (IOW points) to purchase the bots beyond the starting few that you get off the bat. Bots cost 2000 stars, 5000 stars, and up. For each race you get 100-200 or so stars based upon your skill and the race difficulty, so you can see that it may take 30-40 races before you can unlock another bot. Add in that you have to unlock about half of the bot colors that you can use plus an assortment or other “add ons” and it may take over 1000 races to unlock everything – not exactly for the faint of heart. For this reason only did I mark this as 4 out of 5 stars.
Michael Kerner
July 12th, 2010 - 03:31

Review by Michael Kerner for ExciteBots: Trick Racing
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When it does come down to the Nintendo Wii, they definitely have raised the bar when it comes to innovation. That has been shown in their appeal of the way video games are played very strongly, even when it does come behind the wheel. With the success of racing giant Mario Kart Wii, as the biggest-selling video game last year, many wonder how Nintendo is going to keep that stride to the checkered flag. That sadly wasn’t the case when Excite Truck was launched for the Wii back in 2006. The game was sadly overlooked by gamers, in favor of other gems like The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports. Well, the Excite series is set to take a more extreme turn again on the Wii, and this time, it is a bit strange trying to stay extreme.

Excitebots: Trick Racing for the Nintendo Wii, feeds off of the appeal Excite Truck had, and brings it in to a whole new level of gaming. The gameplay is as similar to Excite Truck was, but with a few interesting twists. The biggest twist is as you race your way as one of many animal-inspired robotic cars, including the grasshopper, frog, mouse, and beatle. While it might seem weird, it is actually a surprise. The control is similar to what Excite Truck had to offer, by steering with the Wii-mote like it was a steering wheel, but also can be compatable with the Wii-wheel attachment that came with Mario Kart Wii as well.

The gameplay is similar to Excite Truck as well, as you make your way racing to the top by scoring stars by pulling off extreme stunts like mid-air jumps, pulling off 360 spins, crashing into other vehicles, pulling outrageous stunts, like ring jumps, and new twists like swinging on metal bars, and more weird, but surprising things like scoring a soccer goal while driving, to attempting to make a bowling strike, and even throwing pies at clown faces. That is important, because it isn’t just about getting 1st Place, it is also about scoring more stars, to unlock newer vehicles and getting newer places to race like Egypt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and China. I also do like the idea that now you can race against others online here too see if you are #1.

Sadly though, there actually are a few disadvantages with Excitebots: Trick Racing. The biggest disadvantage is that unlike Mario Kart Wii, where you can race as many as 12 different racers online, here you can only race against as many as 6 different racers through the Wi-Fi connections, which honestly doesn’t pull off all the stops. The second disadvantage is that I was surprised to find out that you can’t control the game with the Classic or Nintendo Gamecube controllers here, unlike Mario Kart Wii. Although staying similar to what Excite Truck had to offer when it came out in controls and gameplay, yet it still might leave gamers feeling like they wanted more.

All in all, despite a few faults, Excitebots: Trick Racing feels a bit weird in the race at first, but actually is a big surprise that is sure to please racing fans, who want strange and trippy-tricked out racing to a whole new level of fun. I think the game is challenging, but is sure to please Wii fans that might felt that the Nintendo Wii hasn’t offered enough in awhile for the need of great games.

Graphics: B

Sound: B

Control: B 1/2-

Fun & Enjoyment: B- for solo players; B 1/2- for multiplayer

Overall: B-
N. Riley
July 12th, 2010 - 03:32

Review by N. Riley for ExciteBots: Trick Racing
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You will not find many games better than this for the Wii. I suggest this game for everyone! It is only two players on splitscreen, but it supports up to six players online. The game is very very fun. This is actually even better than Excite Trucks. Please do yourself a favor and buy this game. If you are not sure about it, watch a video review on ign.com, and give it some thought… then buy it.