Offering a preview of this month's issue, Nintendo Power posted a several pages from its latest edition, including screenshots and details for Excitebots: Trick Racing, due April 20th.
Developed by Monster Games, the studio behind 2006's Excite Truck, Excitebots will again allow players to boost through off-road courses and morph the track with ramps, except with more emphasis on executing stunts and with robotic critters instead of trucks.
Some of the racing insects and critters, all of which drive or fly differently, include a ladybug, a beetle (which looks like it's on rollerskates!), a grasshopper, a bat, a frog, a turtle, a mouse, and a mantis. Furthermore, the game will feature minigames, poker games, pie throwing, and uh, a tambourine. Fantastic.
Monster Games and Nintendo supervisor Hiro Yamada explained their thinking behind populating the Excite franchise with an overly joyous turtle and other creatures:
"The original Excite Truck stood out from the crowd because of the unlikeliness of trying crazy tricks with regular trucks that you might see every day. This time, we're bringing even more insane stunts and tricks. However, when we raced the new tracks with the trucks, we felt that the two elements didn't match up quite as well as we hopes, and we couldn't get immersed in the game like we wanted to.
So, we really wanted to create an offbeat, unconventional design that no one would find anywhere else and would fit with the wacky action. That's how we came up with these robot critters."
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