Monster Jam Showdown Reviews
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.
Combining the combos of PS2 classics with flashy, modern looking spectacle, Monster Jam Showdown is muddy good fun.
Monster Jam: Showdown is fun, but little more. It's pretty, some events shine with their own light and the online mode is undoubtedly its best asset for lovers of this show. However, it's not as fun and spectacular as I expected. Yes, it's worth a few hours and the split screen is a great tip to spend a fun time with colleagues but, at the same time, the simplicity of its proposal and the lack of identity of the vehicles in the technical, being all the same monster truck with different costume, ends up leaving us a little disenchanted with its proposal.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
A game about racing massive trucks that look like dinosaurs should not be boring, and yet Monster Jam: Showdown achieves the seemingly impossible; this game is an absolutely slog of an experience. Best avoided, even for Monster Truck loving aficionados.
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 a chaotic fun experience devoted to the most crazy vehicles ever conceived. A few technical stumbles and an uninspired tracks design prevent it from aspiring to higher goals, but the road-map of content for the coming months looks promising.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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.
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.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
All things considered, Monster Jam Showdown is a simple and straightforward game that does what it promises: it delivers a series of detailed and well-modeled Monster Trucks, placing them in (a few) circuits and stadiums on which to test their possibilities.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The races are fun, challenging, the drifts are a lot of fun to maintain and the exhibitions, whether in Free Style or with the recommendations, a very good detail for those who are just starting out, have transmitted to me those sensations of wanting to score more and raise my multiplier in the purest Tony Hawk Pro Skater style. If you like arcade driving titles and want to have quality guarantees, you should seriously consider buying Monster Jam Showdown.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Monster Jam Showdown is the definitive Monster Jam experience of this generation. With sleek gameplay, gorgeous visuals, and amazing sound design, you won't want to miss this game.
While I may not have extensive experience with monster truck racing games, I'm pretty confident that Monster Jam Showdown is a good one, delivering knockabout physics and pleasing visuals, as well as accessible and immediate gameplay that places the onus squarely on fun.
Monster Jam Showdown is a fun, physics-based monster truck game which is wrapped in a dreadfully underwhelming campaign structure. All your favorite licensed monster trucks are here, but their similar driving characteristics and sounds deflate the excitement.
I have a lot of respect for Monster Jam Showdown, this is the kind of title that a lesser developer might have just gone through the motions with. But this time around the full force of Unreal 5 is unleashed, creating a frequently stunning and impressive-looking game. Despite their size, the superstars of Monster Jam handle brilliantly the different environments and challenges on offer. Given that most fans who attend the real-life shows or watch on TV will have their favourite truck and driver it is a bit of a shame that pretty much all of the trucks need to be unlocked via play time and challenges. Other than that though, believe it or not, I have played a tonne of Monster Truck-themed games in my lifetime and the bar is higher than you might think. Monster Jam Showdown gets a pass from me.
Monster Jam Showdown is a highly entertaining and accessible title. The arcade-style driving system appeals to a wide audience without sacrificing fun or content-there are plenty of game modes and a good variety of trucks and customization options. Milestone's offering is enjoyable, convincing, and fun.
Review in Italian | Read full review
There is enough here for me to say that it is a fun game with a great number of events, trucks and trophies to unlock, and modes to enjoy even with friends online or split-screen! This is hands-down the best Monster Jam game I have played yet.
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.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
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
Review in Persian | Read full review
Monster Jam Showdown is a title for the fans who aren't so critical of their games. Performing stunts is undoubtedly fun, but the stadium events are boring even though they mimic what you'd see in a Monster Jam event. The races are enjoyable until you get stuck behind a truck or crash into a rock wall and spin around unrealistically. The number of available events makes for a lengthy single-player mode, while multiplayer is a good addition. Young players enamored with monster trucks will enjoy this title the most, while all other racing fans should approach it with the above caveats in mind.
Monster Jam Showdown is, without a doubt, a robust product full of great qualities when transposing this universe to the world of games. However, the lack of diversity of content and especially its identity crisis between realistic elements and pure jokes prevent it from being as entertaining as it could be, applying a self-boycott to itself.
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