In addition to the 70+ quads, trucks, bikes, and cars featuring in the game, a new video released today also reveals hovercrafts that race across both land and water. Featuring exhilarating arcade racing and sweeping shots of FUEL’s stunning environment, the video is available from www.fuel-game.com (in the Downloads section).

There’s a lot of discussion about whether or not they were able to succeed, but if you take a look at what they were able to accomplish in the game, it’s pretty impressive and worth your time. With sales, the series will be continued, with improvements most likely being made. This isn’t a car racing game or a bike racing game per se, but you can race both cars, bikes, and other vehicles. With tons of vehicles and miles and miles of diverse tracks and courses, you won’t get bored quickly with this game.

While the courses and the vehicles are impressive, the AI behind the other racers could use a little work. Luckily, there’s great multi-player that will keep the races interesting and more important – fair!  There are minor problems with online play, but these will surely be worked out as more people become attached to this driving game that could be a dream video game for a lot of people.

If you’ve played FUEL, let us know and leave a comment below. Whether you love or hate this epic racer, we want to hear from you because of your love for video games.

The game has the same controls as Excite Truck. If you’re not familiar with that, it’s one of those video games you can just “pick up” and magically know how to play. Well, that game was so popular this is a spin-off with … well, excitebots! Heh. How can you not like a name like that? You can even choose to be the frog. Ribbit! Ribbit!

Nintendo Wii is coming out with some great games and this is one of them, especially if you like action racing games (or frogs.) As with Excite Trucks, this uses the special Nintendo Wii Driving Controller, which is kinda cool. (At least I like it. If you disagree with me, first – how dare you! Second, leave a comment so I can defend myself at least!

Ok, back to the video game.

Up to six of your friends can race online via a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in both the Excite Race and the Poker Race modes. Broadband Internet access is required for online play. (Duh.)

You can activate in-race mini-games including:

• Soccer
• Bowling
• Darts
• Clowns
• Sandwiches

What other game combines high-speed robot racers with bowling, poker, clown faces and sandwich making? Not many. Leave it to the Nintendo Wii to come out with such a game.

If you have any Excitebots: Trick Racing stories, we really do want to hear from you. (Seriously – some night I lay awake for hours wondering why there are no real comments on the blog. Smile. Just kidding. It’s free to join the conversation, though!)

Til next time, excite your bot.