Teletext writes: "Nintendo already has the perfect update of Excitebike, in the form of Excitebike 64 (curiously not on the Virtual Console, although the original is).
Developer Left Field took the NES game only as an inspiration and created the 32-bit era's best motorbike sim.
This is something else, a backwards-looking retro remake whose cloying nostalgia is only for the converted."
El33tonline writes:
"The Excite series has seen some great entries on the Wii. ExciteTruck, a close-to-launch title, was a great trick-racing game where stars collected while racing through drifting, tree-running, jumping, spinning and generally performing unrealistic stunts were almost more important than winning the race. ExciteBots took the idea and went even more crazy: racing mechanized insects was just the tip of the insanity-iceberg. If you're looking for more of that then ExciteBike: World Challenge will disappoint. That's because it returns to the simplicity of the original ExciteBike and re-imagines it. The result is a very simple game with good depth and a lot of fun."
3djuegos: Nintendo invites us to return to the past with the revival of the classic Excitebike, a title that brings all of the original and unforgettable exploits online gameplay and infrastructure Wii. As a result we have one of the most enriching experiences of the catalog. Melancholy and entertainment merge in a renovated classic in small proportions.
IG writes: "There is a new trend in videogame land: games from a bygone era to revitalize through the online platform. Be it through a (custom) or by re-launching a completely new - but based loosely on an old - game; on WiiWare alone there are numerous examples for this. So is the recent Excite Bike: World Challenge, somewhere between the two aforementioned types of dangles."
