Excite Truck
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| Developer(s) |
Monster Games Nintendo SPD |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Composer(s) |
Kenji Yamamoto Masaru Tajima |
| Series | Excite |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 75.18% (based on 69 reviews) |
| Metacritic | 72/100 (based on 57 reviews) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Game Informer | 7/10 |
| GameSpot | 6.8/10 |
| GameTrailers | 6.5/10 |
| IGN | 8.0/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 85/100 |
| ONM | 84/100 |
| X-Play | 4/5 |
Excite Truck (エキサイト トラック Ekisaitotorakku?) is a video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monster Games for the Wii video game system. It features malleable environments and tilt-based controls. The game was one of the Wii launch titles in North America. It is the third main game in the Excite series (following Excitebike and Excitebike 64) and the first to feature vehicles other than motorbikes. Excitebike was released on the Virtual Console service in Europe on February 16, to mark the European release of Excite Truck.
Excite Truck is the first Wii game to let players select music, in the form of MP3s from an SD card, to be played in the background while they are playing instead of the music provided by the game. This feature is also used by Endless Ocean.
Excite Truck does not use the Nunchuk attachment; it is controlled entirely with the Wii Remote. When first starting the game the player must go through a series of tests or practice runs before they are allowed to play the full game. After finishing the training levels, both single and multiplayer modes are available. The player first starts with three trucks. They must unlock additional trucks by reaching various benchmarks. The game also supports split screen two player multiplayer.
Crossing the finish line first is not the goal of Excite Truck, but rather another avenue for gaining stars. Stars are scored for a variety of stunts, and for the player's placement at the end of the race. A letter grade is awarded for each race, corresponding to the number of stars obtained, with the S rank being the highest grade possible. Getting S ranks in all tracks on the regular Excite difficulty level unlocks a harder "Super Excite" difficulty level. Getting S ranks in all tracks on the Super Excite difficulty level unlocks an even more difficult Mirror Mode level.
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