Monster Jam Showdown

Monster Jam Showdown is the strongest Monster Jam game to date, but it’s light on track variety and crying out for a deeper career mode and customisation.

It isn't offering much you haven't seen before in the genre, but Monster Jam Showdown is a really solid racer and by far the best the series has been in a long time.

Monster Jam Showdown isn't the best racing game of the year, but it doesn't set out to be. It's supposed to be an honest arcade game with an accessible career for everyone, and the developers at Milestone have succeeded.

Monster Jam Showdown is a game for Monster Jam fans and that is perfectly fine and exactly what I wanted. Its not going to pull in fans of other racing games because it just simply doesn’t have enough depth, but for what it is, it is entertaining. Unfortunately, the entertainment can run a bit stale quicker that I would have liked due to a lack of variety in the tracks.

“Monster Jam Showdown” excels when it comes to gameplay and pure spectacle, but Milestone’s attempt on revitalizing the franchise falls short due to its claustrophobic offroad maps, poor AI and uninteresting reward system. Here’s hoping that the team can turn this boat around and it becomes a gem like “Hot Wheels Unleashed”.

Monster Jam Showdown is a really fun game. I love controlling these massive vehicles and watching them tumble around these tracks with the grace of a rock rolling down a hill. Milestone continues to prove they are a premiere racing game developer, and if you grew up on the edge of your seat at these events, this is the best version of a monster truck game I have played in quite some time.

Monster Jam Showdown is an entertaining and enjoyable heavy vehicle racing game. I recommend it to all fans of heavy and noisy car racing. The exciting and chaotic gameplay, along with attractive audio and visual effects, makes it one of those sweet video games in your console library that you will enjoy during family gatherings or with friends. However, minimal use of the music section’s potential, the game design’s contradiction between arcade and simulator approaches, repetitive competition modes, and low variety in car customization have prevented this game from becoming a superior and higher-quality product

Milestone won the hearts of millions of fans through the two Hot Wheels Unleashed installments, which focused more on fun than realism. Monster Jam Showdown falls somewhere in the middle. On one hand, it tries to offer enough content and a number of entertaining mechanics, but ends up presenting us with an experience that doesn't quite match the level of quality of its previous works. The result is a racing title that may be hard to recommend to anyone who isn't a monster truck fan.

Monster Jam Showdown is a small improvement over its predecessor. The visuals are now more polished, as is the overall presentation of the game. Add to that the varied and numerous challenges, the great soundtrack and the multiplayer features, and we have an interesting game. It has some issues, especially regarding the occasional instability in driving, but it is still a good option for everyone's library.

Yet again I’m impressed that the Monster Truck racing subgenre is continuing to improve and justify itself