Comments on: Excitebots: Trick Racing http://guide2games.org/2009-reviews/3265/excitebots-trick-racing/ Christian Spotlight's Game Reviews Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CoffeewithChess http://guide2games.org/2009-reviews/3265/excitebots-trick-racing/comment-page-1/#comment-3158 CoffeewithChess Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:16:59 +0000 http://guide2games.org/?p=3265#comment-3158 I think this game is really great. It's extremely clean considering games these days and it's A LOT of fun. There's no cursing in the game, which I find extremely refreshing these days. This is one of the most creative games I've played in a long time. It took a genre like racing and I think made itself it's own segment within that genre, trick racing. I still enjoy playing this game and the added online play is a great feature and adds to the replay value. After reading the review, I will say the game does have a "gambling" mechanic with the online play, where it allows players to "bet" a certain number of stars on the race, and then at the end of the race, a multiplier randomly will land on a number 0-4(or 5) and award or take stars away...the "betting" of the stars is totally voluntary and you don't have to bet to race online, it just allows you to try and gain stars quicker to unlock more colors and bots. Also, I don't know if this would be of concern, but if anybody is terrified of clowns, you may want to pass on the game...as during a race one of the item boxes gives you a pie to throw in the face of a GIGANTIC clown face that appears over the race course. If you are looking for a racing game update to Mario Kart Wii or just for a fun, clean game, I would HIGHLY, HIGHLY suggest Excitebots: Trick Racing as that game. I think this game is really great. It’s extremely clean considering games these days and it’s A LOT of fun.
There’s no cursing in the game, which I find extremely refreshing these days.
This is one of the most creative games I’ve played in a long time. It took a genre like racing and I think made itself it’s own segment within that genre, trick racing.
I still enjoy playing this game and the added online play is a great feature and adds to the replay value.

After reading the review, I will say the game does have a “gambling” mechanic with the online play, where it allows players to “bet” a certain number of stars on the race, and then at the end of the race, a multiplier randomly will land on a number 0-4(or 5) and award or take stars away…the “betting” of the stars is totally voluntary and you don’t have to bet to race online, it just allows you to try and gain stars quicker to unlock more colors and bots.
Also, I don’t know if this would be of concern, but if anybody is terrified of clowns, you may want to pass on the game…as during a race one of the item boxes gives you a pie to throw in the face of a GIGANTIC clown face that appears over the race course.

If you are looking for a racing game update to Mario Kart Wii or just for a fun, clean game, I would HIGHLY, HIGHLY suggest Excitebots: Trick Racing as that game.

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