Monster Rancher 4

by Tecmo

Product Features

• Mocchi, Suezo and Golem are back with a whole new multi-breeding and training program
• Customize your training facilities with a variety of equipment for efficient monster training
• Go beyond the original Monster Rancher games with the new interactive action/adventure elements -- you can take your monsters on quests!
• Cool new CD/DVD swapping feature lets you unlock new monsters by playing your favorite CDs & DVDs

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AHOOH
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,634 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #19 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Strategy

Product Description

Monster Rancher 4 brings back the strategy fun of the hit game series, with all-new monsters and options!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Monster Rancher To Date And An Excellent Family Game, November 25, 2003

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"tscharron" (Springfield, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monster Rancher 4 (Video Game)

Tecmo has vastly improved the storyline and features in Monster Rancher 4. Now instead of waiting until the game tells you to go on an adventure, you decide when you want to make the trip. There is a lot more interaction with your monsters in this version. You can praise or scold them and you decide when to feed them. There is more interaction with characters in the towns than in the past also. Being able to raise 5 monsters at a time is awesome as well. The negatives? Well, if you freeze a monster in this version, you can only use the monster to combine with another monster. No freezing a well trained monster that you pull out to fight with when you need gold. Also, it is a little more difficult to determine exactly when to scold or praise your monster, but that is part of the fun. All in all, this is an awesome game for the whole family.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fourth version is great, June 22, 2004

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meowy "Crocheter/Cat Petter" (VA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monster Rancher 4 (Video Game)

The game returns to it's former playing style (Rather than following MR-3's style, it's more like MR-1 and 2). The graphics are a nice 3D environment regarding your character, the monsters and the battles. The chat/shop modes are flat anime style drawings, however the characters do have facial expression changes during the appropriate moments of chatting.

Whether you're a seasoned MR breeder or new to the game, the fourth version will be easily playable while still offering challenges for us "old timers". The larger your CD/DVD collection is, the more likely you are to get more monster choices. The game will walk you through "extracting a monster" from your discs. Computer discs, music CD's, DVD's, and game console CD's are read by the game at specific points and will display a monster held within for you to keep or not.

The interface (the yes/no options) are a bit tricky, be careful when clicking through to speed text up as sometimes it will click "yes" when you're not ready and tend to destroy a battle or result in purchasing an item you really weren't ready to spend your money on.

The music is nice, low-key, and fits well with the scenes. The monster models are excellent, very cute. Their animations while training/fighting are well done.

All in all, I love the game despite the minor issues with the interface at times. I am a long time MR player, so I was already hooked before I ripped the plastic off the case. :)

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay, But Lacks Certain Qualities, February 8, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Monster Rancher 4 (Video Game)

This game is deffinetly an improvement over the third but it lacks a few things that seperate from the best. For example: Because you can now hold up to 5 monsters on your ranch at a time, you'd think the designers might give you more vs. data slots. But they don't, which means that you can only have one full party of monster's data, plus one monster! Also, when your monster has to be retired, you can't save your vs. data so your stuck with what you have saved in the past.
Training in this game has improved dramatically with the introduction of training gadgets. You can customize your schedule so you don't have to fiddle around with the controls every week like in it's predeccessor.
Once you finish your training you have to go to "weekend activities" and choose to either enter a competition, go adventuring, go to town, or go to the next week.
The all new 3D adventuring in this game is amazing, walk around 4 levels, that you have to unlock as you go through the game, and search for treasures, do goals, or just try and get your monster a new move. You can also unlock the ability to fly, or ride on your monster.
Now about the battles. Your monster can now hold up to 9 moves, plus you can press any button you want, not just the button that's high-lighted, like in MR3. Also, when your monster does a move that annoying black screen, that shows up in MR3, doesn't show up. The second you hit the desired button, unless your monster is disobeying you, the monster does the move. What a relief!
Going to town is also a cool thing. You can go to 4 different towns and talk to people. You can also buy food, and items for your monsters at the item shop. I won't reveal any more of the game, but I will say, this game is deffinetly worth getting!