Nintendo is the Wonka Chocolate Factory of the video game industry.
No other game company can top Nintendo's knack for suddenly unveiling wonderfully bizarre games--Perplexing titles no one expected, arriving out of nowhere and delivering some of the best gameplay ever conceived.
Excitebots has arrived. Nintendo, I love you.
Here's a game where you travel the globe to race large robotic animals at 200 m.p.h. across wild off-road courses. That's not the weird part.
The robotic animals morph during the race: They roll on wheels, run on mechanical legs, swing around posts with robotic arms, and glide through the air. And, with time, they can dress up like cowboys, punk rockers and ballerinas.
That's not the weird part, either.
While piloting the robots, you will also be bowling, throwing darts, punting footballs, shooting soccer goals, making sandwiches, hurling pies at evil clowns, fishing, shaking off giant denture attacks, rescuing butterflies, smacking home runs and playing poker.
Yes, that's the weird part.
Now, I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone has ever combined racing and poker into one game before. Amazingly, it works. In fact, it's a blast, and the controls are easy to learn. Excitebots is one of the most thrilling, addictive and insanely enjoyable games I've ever played. If you own a Wii, check this thing out.
Now, excuse me. I need to earn enough stars to dress up my awesome hummingbird bot in an airline pilot costume.
