Monster Jam Showdown Reviews
“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”.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
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.
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 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
Combining the combos of PS2 classics with flashy, modern looking spectacle, Monster Jam Showdown is muddy good fun.
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.
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.
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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.
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 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.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
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.
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