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Seriously. Right now. Get in your car and drive to your closest EB Games/top, and play the Wii for god’s sake! Yeah, maybe it’s only ExciteTruck, but hey, that’s no title to scoff at! Go play, now!

I’ll be going down there later today. I’ll update this post with my 2nd hands-on impressions tonight…

Update: Lot’s of Excite Truck time. Good news and bad news. Good news: it’s a lot of fun, and that’s coming from a strong anti-racing critic. Bad news: the game feels shallow. Once the initial, “OMG Wii controls are teh awesome!” wears off, it gets a bit repetitive. This seems less a flaw in the Wii and more a flaw with Excite Truck specifically. Or maybe that’s my anti-racing senses tingling. I don’t know, but I just feel now like I’d be more interested in a more in-depth racer on Wii. I’m looking at Need for Speed Carbon as a possibility…

Got to mess with the Mii Editor too. That’s good clean fun. Of course, after you’ve made a couple, there’s not much to do with ‘em since I didn’t have any games to use ‘em in. But I love the fact I can use them in Wii Sports, once I get on my system…
It wasn’t as fun or awe-inspiring as my first Wii encounter, but I still had a load of fun, and it didn’t create any doubt in my mind that games on this system are going to be a blast to play. I’m really looking forward to Zelda, and I mean REALLY looking forward to it. I chickened out of writing a review for it, so I can just sit back and enjoy it over the course of a couple months, which is what I like to do with big fun titles. Red Steel though I’m going to plow through, and be uber-critical of as I review it. It’s a make-or-break example of how the Wii can handle FPS’s, so I think it’s a big deal, and needs to be critiqued a little bit harshly. Knowing Nintendo, however Red Steel turns out, Metroid will be 3 times better…