Infendo reader Kale is a lucky man, and is admittedly excited today after he played what I gather is one of the first live, hands-on Wii kiosks at a GameStop in the U.S. Kale aslo has some interesting info about Blake’s A+B post, as well as the trucks in Excite Truck.
“I JUST PLAYED WII……I won’t sleep for two weeks now….and then never….Excite Truck kicks @$$…..it takes about 10 seconds to figure out the controls and get comfortable with the wii-mote. So much of that process happens subconciously you don’t even realize you’ve learned how to use the controller…..and I learned what the “simultaneous button” pressing at the beginning is for. It’s only required with mutliplayer games and it happens whenever you want it to. It’s for determining the order of the controllers (1-4) as far player number goes. It’s very similar to using the X,B, Start simultaneous press on the Gamecube for soft-booting. I WANT MY WII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited….I’m shaking and jumping up and down like a little school girl….
Kale said…
GameStop, my friends. Maybe I got a little spoiled, living in the Dallas area (the company’s headquarters is like 15 minutes from where I live), but GameStop and EB should be hooking up kiosks over the weekend and throughout next week. But I played a Wii (dear God, I’m still shaking…..) in Frisco, TX, a North Dallas suburb. Did I mention Excite Truck rocks? All the initial trucks are actually tributes to the old RC Pro Am cars (the original NES game had a small Truck, Jeep, and Buggy), so the nostalgia was euphoric and the multiplayer rocks (my roommate kicked my a$$ though).
Who else is seeing the formerly uninteractive Wii kiosks that popped up last week now active?
Finally, something good comes from having moved to Texas. I'll have to checkout the San Antonio area and see if we have interactive kiosks now.
"It's only required with mutliplayer games"Twilight princess has it… TP multiplayer ftw?
oh, p.s. I live in Houston. Called EB, they're getting a 'Wii demo' any day and I will be called when it arrives. 😀
sweet, Im in San Antonio as well. hopefully i can find one.
ku ku im in houston as well and the eb games on bay area in clear lake has been sayin the same -_-;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
I live in Okalhoma but only two hours form amarllo. I amy make a road trip next weekend
wow, i honestly had no idea that wii kiosks weren't widespread after i saw a guy playing excite truck at the stonebriar mall in frisco, tx. i didn't get to play it myself, but it was fun to see the controller tilting to control the steering. my initial impression was being slightly underwhelmed by the graphics, basically looked like gamecube quality to me. maybe not too surprisingly to some, a few of us were checking out the wii but a whole bulk of kids were all clustered around madden on the 360 kiosk.
This is a good reason for living in Texas. ExciteTruck isn't that fun, but having the controller in your hand gives you a sense of POWER.
What's this about Excite Truck not being fun? That's the most fun looking game to me. Can y'all describe what makes it unfun?