The Colby Echo

Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment

In Excite Truck, it doesn't really matter how bad the graphics are when you're hurtling through canyons with speedometer-imploding abandon, when you're making a truck do 360 to 2440 degree spins as it cruises, hundreds of feet in the air. When you crash into another truck, sending it careening into a coconut tree, the game exalts you: "SUPER TRUCK SMASH!!!" Even when you crash into that same tree, the game exalts you: "NICE CRASH!!!" Excite Truck is no frills, arcadey fun. Anyone who's ever felt the thrill of getting on the high score list on any game in an arcade at Chuck E. Cheese's or Discovery Zone (if you're cool and went to one) knows what Excite Truck captures. It's about big bonuses and big air, high jumps and high scores. Who really needs extraneous game play modes when you've got game play that's this fun? Excite Truck needs not your "good graphics," it just needs excitement and trucks, and it has both in spades. If I gave review scores, I would give this game 20 trucks out of 10, and an EXCITE level of 300% out of 100%. Unfortunately, I'm not an exponent of scoring reviews, so I'll just say this: If you don't like Excite Truck, you're part of the problem.

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