Excite Truck was win, I wonder what Excitebots will involve... Kinda hard to imagine. | |
So... anyone else about to scream for the new Punch Out!!? | |
Punch Out was never a good game. It was ridiculously repetitive. There. Someone had to say it. | |
I'm a big fan of Punch-Out!! on the NES, but I don't know if a new control scheme and some extra's will be enough to convince me to buy this remake. Especially since the original is only 500 WiiPoints on the Virtual Console. | |
All First Person Shooters are repetitive There. Someone had to say that. Seriously any game can be labelled repetitive in some fashion. | |
I love punchout, but I am worried this one will have my arms tired by the 5th guy. Oh well, I think it is going to be worth, at the very least, a rental. Also, excite truck was freakin sweet, so I might have to give excitebots a go, pending on how stupid they went. | |
I am so looking forward to Punch-Out myself. But the one thing I noticed that was missing from Nintendo line-up of games was Wii Sports: Resort. Now you can say whatever you want about it, but wasn't it supposed to come out around the Spring? I mean they did mention the "New Play Control" games on their press release. I guess it might be pushed back. | |
You are both so right. And yet, it is all so very wrong. | |
no...no it can't. games like psychonaunts and beyond good&evil can never were the "repetitive" belt. On the point: this game reminds me of let's get ready to rumble. never really got into punch-out since I've been blingin' out my PSP with ridiculous past generation fighting games. | |
Apparently, you are foolish enough to think that all games have the same amount of repetition involved. I'm very sad you can't make that distinction. | |
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Nintendo Announces Excitebots, Dates Punch-Out!!
Nintendo has revealed its release line up for the second quarter of 09, and while Punch-Out!! in May sounds great, the really excite-ing part is the announcement of Excitebots, a spiritual sequel to Excite Truck.
Punch-Out!! will be released on May 18. Leaked info on the game revealed by the ESRB suggested that it'll be a pretty spot-on replica of the classic NES title, and Nintendo's description seems to support that idea: "Boxers battle as iconic hero Little Mac as they fight their way through a cast of new and familiar boxing opponents on their quest to win the coveted WVBA (World Video Boxing Association) Championship Belt."
Meanwhile, fans of robots and excitement, your game will arrive soon. Excitebots, a spiritual successor to the Excitebike and Excite Truck games, will release on April 20. Featuring "elements that make it one of the more unique racing games on the market," the game comes packaged with a Wii Steering Wheel plastic shell and has "fun minigames" and "crazy tricks."
Sounds like it could be more Wii shovelware, but I'm hoping for the best. Anyone who enjoyed Excite Truck knows that the arcade racer was one of the best surprises to come out of the early life of the Wii. Sending monster trucks flying over huge canyons while doing 900 degree backward flips using the Wii Remote easily beat out fishing in Twilight Princess for pure fun back then, and hopefully Excitebots will live up to that legacy. I mean, it has robots, it sounds like. That's a good start.
Nintendo also revealed its upcoming WiiWare lineup, which will exclusively feature Independent Games Festival awards contender Night Game, the latest creation of developer Nicklas Nygren, best known as the guy behind indie favorite Knytt Stories. Also on tap for WiiWare is something called Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, which has you playing as the titular toaster as he teams up with other toasters to "fire an assortment of pastries at all kinds of dastardly food products." How wacky.
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