NAKED SEXY TRUTH, that is.
We need an ExciteTruck thread so I can post my impressions in it.
So I played the Wii at Gamestop today:
The Wiimote is great, as everyone has said. It's not too heavy, not too light. All the buttons are comfortable, and not too small. The first one the guy gave me wasn't synced right, so I couldn't do anything. So he gave me the 1st-player controller, and it worked fine. I love how twisting the Wiimote turns the little cursor. There wasn't any shakiness at all on the menu screens. Unfortunately the menus are all I got to use the pointer for.
The game they have setup is ExciteTruck, I think it's the full game. One thing you notice when you turn the Wiimote on its side is that every button is surprisingly accessible. It's just as easy to press the A button as the D-Pad. I noticed that in the most comfortable position, it's easiest to press the B button with the top side of your middle finger. Not that you need the B button in ExciteTruck.
On to the game: it's really fun. I don't know how the replay value will be, but it will definitely be fun for short periods of time. Steering is intuitive, but it's not easy, which is good. You want a learning curve. At first I was driving all over the place but after a few minutes I started being able to do some things. Whenever you hit an icon or do something really cool a jingle plays from the Wiimote speaker. The terrain transformation is really neat. Once you figure out how to land jumps properly the controls become even more intuitive. The one thing I wasn't able to get the hang of was the hoop jumps, there must be something I'm missing.
Oh, and about the graphics: they look good. It looks a little bit better than an Xbox game. When you're playing it, there's no visible aliasing or graphical flaws. Yeah, if this was a 360 or PS3 game, it could look better, but the thing is, when you're actually playing the game, you would never notice the graphical difference. The water looks good, the lighting is good, the textures are good, it's a smooth 60fps, and there's lots of motion blur.
In conclusion:
ALSO, SOME EXCITE TRUCK SCREENS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY VIRGIN CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO FEEL LOVED:
We need an ExciteTruck thread so I can post my impressions in it.
So I played the Wii at Gamestop today:
The Wiimote is great, as everyone has said. It's not too heavy, not too light. All the buttons are comfortable, and not too small. The first one the guy gave me wasn't synced right, so I couldn't do anything. So he gave me the 1st-player controller, and it worked fine. I love how twisting the Wiimote turns the little cursor. There wasn't any shakiness at all on the menu screens. Unfortunately the menus are all I got to use the pointer for.
The game they have setup is ExciteTruck, I think it's the full game. One thing you notice when you turn the Wiimote on its side is that every button is surprisingly accessible. It's just as easy to press the A button as the D-Pad. I noticed that in the most comfortable position, it's easiest to press the B button with the top side of your middle finger. Not that you need the B button in ExciteTruck.
On to the game: it's really fun. I don't know how the replay value will be, but it will definitely be fun for short periods of time. Steering is intuitive, but it's not easy, which is good. You want a learning curve. At first I was driving all over the place but after a few minutes I started being able to do some things. Whenever you hit an icon or do something really cool a jingle plays from the Wiimote speaker. The terrain transformation is really neat. Once you figure out how to land jumps properly the controls become even more intuitive. The one thing I wasn't able to get the hang of was the hoop jumps, there must be something I'm missing.
Oh, and about the graphics: they look good. It looks a little bit better than an Xbox game. When you're playing it, there's no visible aliasing or graphical flaws. Yeah, if this was a 360 or PS3 game, it could look better, but the thing is, when you're actually playing the game, you would never notice the graphical difference. The water looks good, the lighting is good, the textures are good, it's a smooth 60fps, and there's lots of motion blur.
In conclusion:
ALSO, SOME EXCITE TRUCK SCREENS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY VIRGIN CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO FEEL LOVED:
