An amazing blend of quick play and a deep game.
On the outside, this game looks like your basic pick-up-and-play launch title. Oddly enough, it's actually deeper than that. This game features two main "career" modes, a Challenge mode, a Multiplayer mode, over 20 trucks to race in, goodness knows how many tracks, and the game actually keeps track of how many times you get things like Super Air, Super Truck Smash, etc.
The point of the game isn't to win, but to get the most stars by doing tricks. Granted, winning gives you an extra 50 stars, but along the way you'll need to do things like catch big air, drift a lot, smash up other trucks, and take many risks to get as many stars as possible. Add that element to extremely fast-paced racing and you get ExciteTruck.
You'll hardly take the time to notice the graphics, mostly because you'll be zipping by everything, but if you do, you'll notice that there's a high level in detail in every truck, every hill, every rock, et cetera. It's only when you're going like Mach 2 when everything blurs. But going at Mach 2 is fun, right?
As for music, Monster Games added a few custom rock tracks to the game, and they're mostly lame. Fortunately, if you have a SD card with music on it, you can use that to upload your own music to the game. Holy Thunderforce in Scotland, anyone?
The Challenge and Multiplayer modes are very lacking. Challenge mode has you doing things like going through every ring or passing through every gate, those just aren't fun at all. The Versus mode has a slightly-stripped-down version of the main single player mode. In the SP mode, if you crash, you can rapidly press the 2 button to get a free boost of speed. That's gone in the Versus mode. Also, since it's just the two of you racing, it doesn't feel very...exciting.
Don't worry, the Excite and Super Excite modes more than make up for everything bad in the game. It just leaves a feeling of wanting more when you're all done.