Customer Reviews

Tonka Monster Trucks

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

 

 

If your kids (especially boys) dont give you a minute to relax do yourself a favor and purchase this game. Your kids will have hours of fun BY THEMSELVES - after a little explaining from mom about the basics of the game. It is a action packed game with alot of variables so when they get tired of one aspect of the game they can switch to another. I think most anyone will be happy with this game. Its not violent or one of those shoot em up games but it does include all the "tough" action that kids love.

This program works great. Be advised though that it is VERY graphics intensive. If you have an old system, it won't run very well. We are running Windows XP on a P4 1.9Ghz and it hasn't skipped a beat. The graphics really are decent. My five year old loves to play it, and dad even sneaks in from time to time to blast the nitrous over a row of cars...

Overall, this was a great purchase. My 3 1/2 yr old little boy just loves driving these Monster Trucks, he keeps himself occupied for hours. The game is a lot of fun for Dad too-we love playing it together. It is great to see such prolonged concentration in a little boy. The graphics and sounds are fantastic. He especially enjoys designing and customizing his truck. One of the best features is that it works with Tonka's "Digs and Rigs" (also highly recommended) steering wheel controller that quickly mounts over your keyboard. Without this feature, I would not have purchased it for him. This is a game that is easy to get up and running properly within a few minutes of installing the software.

We got this game and absolutely love it!! We have Windows XP and ran the compatibility wizard when we installed it and we have NEVER had a problem. This is a great game our kids love it!
As a parent I appreciate the fact that the "freestyle" arena has 5 min. play -- making taking turns & sharing alot easier!! This game is easy enough that our 2 yr old can drive, but also has challenging enough areas that Daddy has his own truck now too!!
The kids love being able to customize thier truck with tires, paint & graphics.. It has been a hit in our family!!!

We bought this game for our 4 1/2 year old boy. He loves it! You can design your own monster trucks and race them down a track and do freestyle as well (jumps over cars and airplanes). You pick up bonus points as you race so you can get new decals for your trucks. It's simple to play since you use the arrow keys to move left, right front and backwards. The only thing is that we have xp and it freezes up when you create your own track - but since there are tracks already made for you, we just bypass the 'makeing your own track' option

We have all the other Tonka titles and have loved them all. However, this game has been nothing but trouble for me. I installed it on Win 98 where it ran once, nicely, enough to get my boys excited. It never ran again. Countless uninstall/reinstalls have not fixed the problem. It's dead to Win 98. No problem, I'll install it on my Win2000 machine. Wrong! The warning says this game was not designed for 2000. I ran it anyway and it starts but is choppy and unplayable (1.5 GHz machine). I hope Tonka goes back to their original software developer.

If you run Windows XP, and really enjoy rebooting your computer, then I highly recommend this software package. We own the "Dig & Rig" play set and it works great, but this software is developed by a different company and they figured out how to make XP an unstable environment. The graphics and games are very well done, but I think the instability is too much for this adult let alone a child.

My son got this 2 1/2 months ago for his birthday and he LOVES it so much! He hasn't lost interest and plays it constantly! He loves the Tonka series and it was a great addition to our collection.

My Grandson plays for hours by himself. He figured out how to play pretty much by himself. What I like most about this game is that it is action packed with no violence.

My son plays this at his pre-school and he received it for Christmas. He is really having fun with it, it's easy to get around and the instructions from "Tonka Joe" are easy for him to follow. It has a lot of grahics and can be a little slow loading; it has also frozen up on us a few times and we had to restart the computer. Overall it has been a great game.