To get an idea of how much better Excitebots: Trick Racing is than its predecessor, Excite Truck, think about them in terms of children’s toys. Trucks are good, wholesome fun, but there’s only so much ...

Are you anticipating Excitebots for the Wii? The game seemed to come out of nowhere, and already its fast approaching it's release! Until now details have been fairly sparse, but now the floodgates ...

Wii owners only have a week to wait for the release of Excitebots: Trick Racing. The semi-sequel to Excite Truck is also developed by Monster Games with a little help from Nintendo, but you won't be ...

If you bought a Wii in the first year or so of the console's life, you're probably familiar with ExciteTruck, one of the first games available. The first Excite title introduced us to using the ...

The word Excite isn’t the only thing that Excite Truck and Excitebots: Trick Racing have in common. Anyone who spent time with the off-road Wii racer may notice a few similarities between the games.

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If you picked up a Wii at launch, you will most likely remember ...

You race your bot with either the stock Wiimote or the plastic wheel—there is a package that includes the accessory for $10 more if you don’t have one—and the weapons of Mario Kart have been replaced ...

In Excitebots, the spiritual sequel to Excitetruck, you gain stars for doing damn near everything. If you drift, you get some stars. Catch a ton of air? Stars. Wipe out your enemies? Stars. The game ...

When Excite Truck launched alongside the Nintendo Wii console it was the perfect showpiece for showing off the Wii console's motion controls while still providing a true arcade racing experience for ...

Excitebots: Trick Racing, Nintendo’s sequel to Wii launch racer Excite Truck, makes the tenuous connection to the original Excitebike feel increasingly strained. How we arrived at transforming ...

It's been nearly three years since Nintendo released the Monster Games-developed Excite Truck for Wii and in so doing surprised racing fans with a compelling, if not thrilling title that took the ...