NitroBike

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Originally Posted by sethsez

You can play Motorstorm by tilting the Sixaxis. It gets dull after five minutes.

Is it so much to ask for a good game beyond the control scheme? A shitty racing game with somewhat nifty controls (that every racing game on the system is going to have anyway) will only be worth a damn until a good racing game comes out o the Wii, at which point the "unique" controls will no longer matter and the game will just be a piece of shit. It's the same problem early DS games had, where touch screen implementation was the only thing keeping them interesting, and which are now completely pointless since the system has good games that also implement the touch screen.

TL;DR version: unique controls will cease to matter when every game in the genre on the system will have them anyway, so this thing is going to have an extremely short shelf life if it's as mediocre as Excitetruck.

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Never leave again.

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Originally Posted by sethsez

You can play Motorstorm by tilting the Sixaxis. It gets dull after five minutes.

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That's because Motorstom's SixAxis support is implemented so poorly it's almost unplayable.

And there is a lot more to ExciteTruck's motion controls than just tilting left and right to turn.

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Originally Posted by PBMax

That's because Motorstom's SixAxis support is implemented so poorly it's almost unplayable.

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It's more the nature of the game. Excite Truck is straight up arcade nonsense, whereas Motorstorm is a racing game. Where you need to slow down sometimes. Maybe use the brake.

That said, from what I've played so far, Motorstorm requires a lot more precision than tilting a controller in the air will allow you. I still really like both games, it's just that I wouldn't play one as a substitute for the other... though Motorstorm's graphics make Excite Truck pretty tough to look at. If NitroBike is similar to Excite Truck in gameplay, sure, I'd welcome it. However, in any less of a chaotic game, I think the motion control would be more a hindrance than anything else.

What we need is a new neGcon. We've had two entries in the RR series without one. :(

The only good use for the neGcon was Wipeout. Coincidentally, Wipeout is the one series that could really benefit from well-implemented tilt control.

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Originally Posted by bVork

The only good use for the neGcon was Wipeout.

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Can't agree. Good controller for all the RRs, but I got the most mileage out of it in R4. Much more useful than the Jogcon, that's for sure.

So is anyone else playing this? I got it today and played a little while and it is really fun. At first I was all over the place but after a few races I got pretty used to the controls. This could be silly fun online.

Oh and for the Wii haters the game really is fun, but it really does look like dog shit.

I didn't know this was out. I'll try to pick it up today.

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Originally Posted by Glass Joe

So is anyone else playing this? I got it today and played a little while and it is really fun. At first I was all over the place but after a few races I got pretty used to the controls. This could be silly fun online.

Oh and for the Wii haters the game really is fun, but it really does look like dog shit.

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I just picked this up today, and IAWTP. This game acutally is a lot of fun!

Of course the presentation isn't really anything to write home about. Just like Excite Truck, the menu screens are generic and ugly enough to make your eyes bleed. Once you get passed the menu screen, and onto the character select screen, you'll start to think "Ugh. What the hell did I get myself into. These character models are absolutely horrendous." I recommend just picking any character and ignoring the god awfulness of it all. Once you sit through a 6-7 second loading screen the actual races start, and the overall graphics fail to impress. Make no mistake, this game does look like a first gen PS2 launch title.

All that being said, luckily, once you start racing around the tracks you will forget about the horrible presentation. It really seems like the Wii developers are finally starting to get the hang of the Wii remote, because this game controls very fluidly and precisely. There hasn't been an instance yet where I'm flying all over the track with no control over my vehicle, like in Excite Truck. Overall, its just a very fun, fast paced, arcade racing experience and I'm happy with my purchase. I'd give it about a 7.

I haven't had the opportunity to take my Wii online yet, so perhaps I'll give it a shot with this game later on tonight.

I till haven't had the chance to play Excite Truck but I plan to if I can have some fun that's on par with Nitro Bike. I've been all over the place a few times and it mostly feels like my fault because I rest my hands without realizing it and it causes me to get a bit squirrely. I'll chalk that up to this being the first racer I've played holding the Wii remote in this manner.

I look forward to some online races with whoever gets this but I probably won't play again until tomorrow. Be sure to add me to your Wii if I'm not there already and I'll do the same.

Most of the reviews complain that the course design is way too narrow in this game; in Excite Truck you could be really loose with the control and still have tons of fun because the tracks were so wide open. Do you guys feel that NitroBike's control is accurate enough to make up for the narrow courses? The reviews do sound a bit like whining from people that don't have the hand-eye coodination to play a semi-challenging skill-based game.