Excite Truck

 

Excite Truck does not use the Nunchuk attachment; it is controlled entirely with the Wii Remote. To control the game, players must hold the Wii Remote in their hands horizontally, similar to the way one would hold an NES controller. Steering is done by actually tilting the Wii Remote from side to side like a steering wheel. Acceleration and braking is done by pushing the 1 and 2 buttons, and to land major jumps, the player has to tilt the Wii Remote so that all four wheels will land parallel. The directional pad is used for turbo boosts.

When first starting the game, after you enter your name and start the file to be stored in the system's memory, you must go through a series of tests or practice runs (similar to Gran Turismo) before you are allowed to play the full game. After finishing the training levels, you are free to play the single player game or you can go ahead and play the multiplayer game. You first start with three trucks, the Boulder, the Firefly, and the Wolf. You will continually unlock more trucks to use in the single player mode or in the multiplayer mode.

Features
Excite Truck is the first Wii game to let people upload music to the game to be played in the background while you are playing. The game is not compatible with Ubisoft's "Wii Wheel" accessory, due to the fact that the Wii controller's 'face' is pointed upward instead of towards the player as it is in Ubisoft's GT Pro Series and Monster 4x4 World Circuit. The game also supports split screen two player multiplayer. In addition, players can insert an SD card with MP3s to create their own custom soundtracks. As it is the first game to do so, this sets the stage for succeeding games to emulate this feature and incorporate custom soundtracks into later games on the Wii console.