Yes, Excitebike World Rally has some motion control

by JC Fletcher { Oct 28th 2009 at 5:16PM }

Wait! Come back! The motion controls sound okay! We know that you're already groaning about the potential ruin of an NES classic with unwarranted waggle, but according to 1UP's preview of Excitebike: World Rally, the limited Wiimote motion sensing added to the traditional Excitebike control scheme actually improves the game.

You still move with the D-pad and accelerate with a button, but you can now tilt the Wiimote to lean your rider and "affect the pitch of your bike." "Jumping was always the trickiest part of Excitebike," 1UP's Jeremy Parish notes, "and the analog smoothness of the motion controls makes it intuitive -- it became second nature before the end of the first track."

We're curious enough about this sensible-sounding innovation that we'll delay throwing our controllers down in disgust. For now.

Tags: excitebike, excitebike-world-rally, motion-control, racing, remake, retro, wiiware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kirbyfan @ Oct 28th 2009 6:40PM

YES. This worked great in "wario bike" from warioware twisted.

Adv2k1 @ Oct 28th 2009 6:47PM

a childhood fantasy will come to life. i played excitebike on the nes and tilted the NES controller to see if it would work. This seems like a good use of motion controls that adds to the immersion and not just gimmick tagged on instead of a button press (waggle).

Spike (GT: SitriStahl) @ Oct 28th 2009 9:11PM

so will it be like in excite truck, when you land a jump flat, you get a speed boost
i miss that game greatly

TRON.dll @ Oct 28th 2009 9:15PM

Excite Truck.

It was a launch title and it's still the best racing game on the Wii.

Excite Truck was awesome.

Kvak @ Oct 29th 2009 4:28AM

Best racing game is MK WII

Josh @ Oct 29th 2009 10:07AM

I hope this is $10.

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