Comments on: Excite Truck / The Globe and Mail http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/01/221/ Mathew Kumar's Workblog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:57:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Mister Raroo http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/01/221/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Mister Raroo Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:42:08 +0000 http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/02/221/#comment-158 I still want to play Excite Truck. THE CRITICS BE DAMNED! :-P Offshoot story: When I was waiting in line to pick up my Wii, someone was playing Excite Truck on the demo station. He got somehow got his truck stuck in the side of the track and couldn't get it out. The whole line started laughing at him and I thought the poor guy would cry. Finally he got unstuck...only to get stuck again. One more, an eruption of laughter. He passed the controller on to someone else and walked away. I think that's the best Excite Truck review I could have ever witnessed. I still want to play Excite Truck. THE CRITICS BE DAMNED! :-P

Offshoot story: When I was waiting in line to pick up my Wii, someone was playing Excite Truck on the demo station. He got somehow got his truck stuck in the side of the track and couldn’t get it out. The whole line started laughing at him and I thought the poor guy would cry. Finally he got unstuck…only to get stuck again. One more, an eruption of laughter. He passed the controller on to someone else and walked away. I think that’s the best Excite Truck review I could have ever witnessed.

]]> By: mathewkumar http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/01/221/comment-page-1/#comment-156 mathewkumar Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:53:50 +0000 http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/02/221/#comment-156 Oh. So that's what it is. I thought it would be a proper, you know, "attached to the table" kind of thing. Not just a pointless doo-dah. I don't actually have any reason to buy a wheel in general, though, Shaper! All I was sayin' was I don't think that the Wii remote is very good at being a wheel as it is. Oh. So that’s what it is. I thought it would be a proper, you know, “attached to the table” kind of thing. Not just a pointless doo-dah.

I don’t actually have any reason to buy a wheel in general, though, Shaper! All I was sayin’ was I don’t think that the Wii remote is very good at being a wheel as it is.

]]> By: Shapermc http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/01/221/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Shapermc Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:43:09 +0000 http://www.mathewkumar.com/2006/12/02/221/#comment-154 Don't dis Excite Bike :( Anyways, I think you're referring to <a href="http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=802591" rel="nofollow">this product</a>. Which is probably the same as what comes with <a href="http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=230039" rel="nofollow">this game</a>, which is said to be horrible. It's basically a disembodied wheel that makes things seem even less real and further detached from the act of driving. If you really want a driving game/wheel I can't recommend GT4, and a <a href="http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2250,CONTENTID=7226" rel="nofollow">Logitech Driving Force Pro</a>, enough. The length and depth of GT4 combined with that wheel is more than enough to satiate any kind of driving simulation you could ever want outside a hydraulic couch. Don’t dis Excite Bike :(

Anyways, I think you’re referring to this product. Which is probably the same as what comes with this game, which is said to be horrible. It’s basically a disembodied wheel that makes things seem even less real and further detached from the act of driving.

If you really want a driving game/wheel I can’t recommend GT4, and a Logitech Driving Force Pro, enough. The length and depth of GT4 combined with that wheel is more than enough to satiate any kind of driving simulation you could ever want outside a hydraulic couch.

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