Excitebike 64

"One of the best racing games ever to come out for the Nintendo 64:)"

Excitebike is a great and fun game. It is motorcycling with crazy stuff in it. You get to play soccer and race on snow!!!! You get to go off major jumps and even a cliff! The only thing that bugs me is when you fall of your bike or crash, when your player falls out of his bike, He will stay in the position that he is in. Like he will tumble down a hill and still stay frozen. It's sort of funny though. Anyways Excitebike is a great racing games with lots of tracks and characters to choose from. You can even switch the color of your character. There are lots of special features in this game and there is a ton of codes for this game.

My favorite part about this game is the special features. They really rock and are cool. They have a stunt course in it too, which has big jumps in it. You can create a course too. The creating a course mode is a little hard. I mean you have to be expert to make good courses. Like putting a big jump and a turn right next to it. You'll be flying off the course if you ask me. The create your course is fun though. There is lots of jumps and turns to choose from and you can even create your own jump which is awsome.

I like all of the stuff in Excitebike. All the special Features are cool and fun. This games tracks are very fun and tough to beat. You can do tons of tricks in this game. You can do a wheelie and lots of tricks. That's what I like about this game, has lots of cool tricks. Each character has their own specail trick. Each character has their own stats too.

Excite bike should be a game that you will always want to keep. This game never gets boring. Well here is my review for this game.

Graphics 8/2/10
The graphics are good in this game. The back ground is very good and colorful. I like how they did the jungle courses. There really neat. Everything is 3D in this game. The only thing that isn't 3D is the Excitebike mode. It is a option where you can play the orignal excite bike, which is very fun. So when you buy Excitebike, It's like buying two games in one. Anyways the graphics are very good and colorful. Each course has wonderful graphics and the motorcycles are very good too. I think this game graphics are very good.

Sound and music 7.3/10
The sound and music is good. The sound of a motorcycle using turbo is cool. I only have one complaintment though. THE ANNOUNCER FOR THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE!!!! He is very annoying. The sound and music would of gotten a way better rating then 7.3, but the announcer just had to come in. He is very annoying. He always bugs me when I play. I always crash when I hear his voice too. Besides that the sound is good. The music is a different story. I's very good. I love the sound track for this game. I'm not sure but I think every different course has a different theme. Not every one does, but a lot. I like the jungle song a lot. It's really cool. There should serouisly be a music mode on this, because the music is really cool.

Game play 8.3/10
This game is kind of long. It doesn't take that long to beat, but when you get to the last courses, it gets hard. It just took me a long time to beat tourtial mode. It's hard because you have to beat this one course in a certain amount of time in tourtial mode. So did the tricks part. Besides tat the game doesn't take that long to beat. It took me about 20 hrs or so WITHOUT CHEATING. It's very, very, very easy to beat with out cheating. For some reason, it took my friend about a month to beat. I guess he is really bad though so that's why. Anyways the game okay for this game takes a little while to beat and is a little hard. That's all of the game play stuff.

Replay abillity 7.1
To tell the truth, I beat the game and hardly ever play it anymore( unless my friends come over) so the game isn't really wanting to play over again. You would probably want to make more courses again and you could all ways try to beat your best record times. Besides that, I hardly play it. You would defintley won't want to play the game all over again right after you beat it. A month later or so, you might want to try the game all over again. I never really play racing games over again to tell the truth.

Difficultness 7.6/10
It's a littl hard, but not much. If your truley a master at motorcycling games. This one won't be a problem. If not, it will take a while to beat. The hardest part in the game is probably the last courses. The easyiest part in the game is umm... Lets see, I think the easiest part in the game er the beginning of tourtial mode.

Play control 7.5/10
This is like every other racing game I played. The top buttons ( L and R ) are always for drifting. I think the play control is okay. It's a little difficult sometimes, but easy a lot. I just think it should be a little easier to turn.

Multi player 8.1/10
The multi player is fun.I all ways love the soccer mode. I wish they could of had a soccer mode where the cpu can play. Because if you don't have a friend or something, you can't play the soccer mode. The multi player is great though. I think it's very fun!

Overall 7/10
Excite bike is a fun game with a few disapointments. I think this is the best motorcyclying game I have ever played though. It's very fun and Nintendo should make more games like this.

Buy or rent
Well If you already have a motorcycle game, you shouldn't buy this. This is just like that game except is a little better for my opinion. Besides that BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! It's hard and fun.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 09/04/01, Updated 09/04/01