What a surprise. You get a genuinely original and fun looking title on the Wii and itsells like sh*t. Destructoid opinion ofExcitebots: Trick Racinghas been overwhelmingly positive, so it should be no shocker that the poor game has only managed to scrape 13,000 sales across the US. For a game that hasSuper Sandwichesin it, that’s more than sad. That’s a God damned tragedy.
Excitebotshad everything going for it. It followed on from the considerably popularExcite Truck, it had plenty of kid-friendly appeal,andyou could play as a robotic praying mantis. Those are three huge signals of success, but unfortunately the game has spluttered in the starting grid.
I’m beginning to think the general public just as an aversion toanythingthat isn’t crap. It’s as if videogames, music and TV shows require a minimum amount of garbage to be embraced by the masses. The Wii is slowly looking like a dead zone for quality games, through no fault of Nintendo or game developers. The mainstream mediocres want trash, and trash is all they’ll get.
