ExciteBot Trick Racing on the other hand, I just don't know what the hell happened. I bought it because I enjoyed ExciteTruck so much that I thought it was a sure thing. Man, I didn't know things could go so horribly wrong. It's a complete disaster. I've only played it 2 hours, but damn, it's the worst. I'll try and make this brief:
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1) Unfocused: Instead of improving the "Excite" franchise as a racing game, someone got the idea of making the franchise more like Mario Kart. So instead of focusing on the things that made the ExciteTruck fun and improving on them, developers added a bunch of half baked gameplay elements that don't enhance the game in any way. All their time was spent on things that made the game less fun.
2) Unloved: It seems that no one really spent any time making ExciteBots. It's the same engine and nearly identical tracks to ExciteTruck with a bunch of junk piled on top that completely shatters the rythem of the game and robs it of any cohesiveness. If anyone cared, they may have tried to correct these huge flaws, but making deadlines seems to have taken precident over quality.
3) Untalented: The game design is just plain bad. The walk animations for the bot characters are barely passable, and the music... the music is something no one should ever have to listen to.
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Not so short I suppose
Apologies to any who liked this game, I just had to rant a bit lol.
