Mid-race powerups that change the landscape are super cool, and I love the concept of rewarding crashes, but the fumbly motion controls and the complete lack of any visual style kind of eliminate any desire for me to play this over any other racing game.

this truck really is excite

excite is fucking right

Very fun, has some very cool ideas like modifying the environment if some stuff gets activated. I also enjoyed how the player could add custom music to the races.

One of the best arcade racers you can play. First of all it looks great on Wii. The controls are simple, but not watered down (also worked great with the Wii wheel). The courses are fill with things to do like flying through rings, running through trees or deforming the whole road. The multiplayer was fantastic (sadly no online) and you could use custom soundtrack.
This and Motorstorm: Pacific Rift were the kings of racers of the seventh generation.

This game kicks ass. Fun Butt-Rock soundtrack, great sense of speed, good tutorials, it controls well, and all the different ways you can get stars feel super satisfying. Definitely a highlight among the Wii launch lineup.

Low to mid 8/10

Maybe it's just because there were basically no games to play on the Wii back in the day but "offroad racing game with motion controls" was kind of fun.

I remember this game actually being a pretty decent racer with a fair amount of stuff to unlock. I should probably go back to it at some point.

If the world MORPHING around you in real time as you fling your self into ORBIT off mountains while putting your OWN music in this arcade like INSANITY does not sound FUN... come on bro... come on. Do wish local multiplayer went up to four player then just two though.

For a racing game with motion controls it's pretty fun, but that's Nintendo for you.

The first Wii entry of the Excite series, and a really fun game for a launch title. Has all the stunts and ridiculous speeds of Excitebots, but you can only play as different trucks but at amazingly fast speeds across deforming land. The one thing Excite Truck has that Excitebots doesn't is the ability to play whatever music you have on your SD card.