Customer Reviews

Monster Jam

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

My 5 year-old saw the commerical for this while watching Monster Jam on TV. He rec'd it for Christmas (PC version) and LOVES it! We had to buy a new video card for our PC, but that's all.

i bought this computer game for my grandson who is 9 yars old. OMG he loved and played it for hours. it has so many features and differnet things you can do with it. i would recommend it highly to any child interested in the monster jam trucks. my grandson and his dad go to the events all the time and he was so excited to be able to play and race and crash the trucks any time he wanted

I have the PC version of this game. Graphics are really good but trucks cast no shadows. Damage model is pretty detailed.
This game does not support steering wheels, either use a keyboard or a game pad. No excuse for a modern day driving game not to support steering wheels. Also their is no incar view, either use chase view or front bumper view.
I have not found any type of multi player mode, kind of disappointing. Overall the fun factor of this game is pretty high for just arcade style racing as this game is not for true sim racers.

I love this game. I had to purchase a graphics card to play it, which wasn't that much money. (Amazon sells them.) Graphics are great, there are many different tracks to race on and trucks to choose from. Well worth the money!!!

I just purchased and played Monster Jam for the first time tonight. The graphics are really good for an almost 5 year old game. The sounds, music and announcers are pretty good as well. However, there are two, well three, main problems with Monster Jam. The first is control. Man is your truck hard to control on the tracks. I understand that driving around a huge truck with an alcohol burning engine on 6 foot high tires must be tough but come on activision. The worst part is when you hit something and spin out. It's next to impossible to get yourself straight again before the others drivers hit you, which leads me to the next problem.

There is no in race reset function. On games like Need For Speed or Test Drive, there is an in race reset function that allows you to reset your car should you spin out or wreck. The biggest problem with Monster Jam is once you spin out its almost guaranteed you will be hit by other drivers. When that happens you will be dragged quite a ways. Or, you can also hit other trucks causing them to be lodged under your truck. You end up towing them about a half mile down the track before they come off. Or, you will get yourself lodged on a bridge, or a building, with no hopes of turning around in time to stay in the race.

The last problem is the camera. The camera stays with your truck as you drive. So when you spin out, it switches to a behind the truck view. But the problem is, it isn't quick enough to keep up with you as you turn yourself around. It takes about a second for it to switch but that might just be long enough to cause you to lose the race.

Monster Jam is a pretty fun game. I mean, come on, you get to drive around monster trucks. There are just a few problems that make the game quite frustrating and take away some of the fun factor.

i purchased this CD because my grandson wore out his original CD. but when this one arived...it was completely blank. tried it on 3 different machines. oh well...buyer beware i guess.

Got this game for my five year old son. He loves it! And so does his daddy!

The game is pretty cool, you can have your fun. The graphics and stuff are not so sophisticated but it's pretty fun to play.

First off, the game looks great. Its graphics are cartoonish, but very well done overall. You get a lot of vehicles to toy with, and each one is nicely rendered, and of course they're based on the real trucks, so you can choose your favorite from the actual events. The tracks and events are creative, and look great. It is an absolute blast to crash into everything you pass, as most of the items react in very fun ways, either blowing to shreds, or just rolling around all over the place.

All that being said, I find it INEXCUSABLE for a modern driving game to omit steering wheel and pedal support! Especially with the way these trucks bounce around and change direction so randomly, it can be maddening to try to control them with unnatural-feeling keys. This would've been a 5-star review otherwise, because it really has a fun, arcade-like feel to it that's infectious, but fighting the control system just saps a lot of the fun out of it.

Buy it for the looks, and in time you could learn the controls, and probably have fun; however, I will move on to something with the proper controls for my computer driving.

Buyer beware this game is Kinda lame
You can have some fun for a while but after a short time you get tired of the same thing
I think the biggest problem with it is you cant manipulate the setup on your truck and there seems to be no difference in the truck you pick
Bargain bin only