

He drives an organic vehicle built with muscles, tissue, and bone, which is named "Hellhound". Lou Siffer/"Hellhound" - The Devil in disguise as a human doctor and Calypso's former boss, who has come to Earth to deal with him.

Josef Caron/"The Bullet" - A disfigured European racer based off of Niki Lauda, who drives a racecar called "The Bullet".Nikolai Ryzanov/"Red Terror" - An insane Russian soldier who was left for dead during the Soviet-Afghan War, and drives a T-90 tank named "Red Terror".Jubilee/"Silent Night" - A British Interpol agent and an opposite-gender James Bond parody, and drives "Silent Night", a car very similar in appearance to an Aston Martin.Grimm, John Doe/"Roadkill", Dollface/"Darkside", Bloody Mary/"Spectre", Shadow/"Raven", Billy Ray/"Junkyard Dog", Preacher/"Brimstone", and No-Face/"Crazy Eight"), and eight newcomers, which are: The game features eighteen characters and vehicles in total the ten returning from Black (Needles Kane/"Sweet Tooth", Agent Stone/"Outlaw", Mr. This online functionality is the key feature highlighted with this game, with Sony pushing it as one of their "big" online titles. It is also the first Twisted Metal title to feature online functionality, allowing for up to six players to connect and compete against each other in a death match, or team up in a 3v3 team match setup. It is the sequel to 2001's Twisted Metal Black, and is set in the same universe established by that game, using the darker, more violent, and more gothic aesthetic introduced in that game. Twisted Metal: World Tour is a vehicular combat game developed by 989 Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Nevertheless, Excitebike manages to sell around 4 million units, and remains profitable enough for Nintendo to keep it around. Some also feel that it was misguided of Nintendo to purposely position it as a rival to Twisted Metal: World Tour, when both belong to different genres. However, the lack of a track editor is considered to be a sore point, which many saying that not having a track editor was a missed opportunity, in the sense that players could've created and shared their own tracks via online. It receives positive reviews, citing the series' faithful transition to the Nintendo X, as well as the addition of an open world and online play. The game also features online play accessible through a hub in the open world, where players can take on each other in races.Įxcitebike is released for home consoles on May 3rd, 2004, which the arcade version already having been released in January of that year alongside the arcade versions of Wave Race: Typhoon, F-Zero GX, and Killer Instinct: 10th Anniversary Collection. The home version of the game also features a large open world to race through outside of the races, featured an unnamed city area and the surrounding wilderness, where players can take on side missions to race against NPCs in the open world area or in one of the eleven racetracks. In terms of racing, the game features eleven tracks in total, based off of New York City, Paris, London, Delhi, Rome, Tokyo, the Outback, the Sierra Nevadas, the Acacia savannah, the Amazon Rainforest, and a stadium based off the classic NES game.

Other brands featured in the game include Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, and Kawasaki.
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While previous games in the series only had dirtbikes, Excitebike breaks the mold by including non-dirtbike brands namely Ducati, who helps advertise the game in their magazines and even offering a free Ducati S4R 2004 to one lucky participant who chose to preorder Excitebike. It retains most of the same gameplay and controls introduced in Excitebike 64, such as using the analogue stick for steering, the gamepad to slide, accelerate, turbo boost, and brake, and controlling the airtime of jumps. This new reboot was developed by Bizarre Creations, exclusively for the Nintendo X.
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Excitebike is a racing simulator and a reboot of the series that featured on the NES and N64.
