Monster Jam Showdown
SCORE: 67
You have no idea how many times I go into playing a video game for a
live stream with no idea how many episodes it will be. Take Monster Jam
Showdown for example. I thought this game would be three to maybe five
live streams. After playing Monster Jam Showdown for close to an hour
and a half I knew I was done and did not want to play this game again -
ever. Want to know why?
My complaints against Monster Jam Showdown are we do the same things
again and again. We race the same tracks over and over again. For
example we will race a track and start from one spot. Then we race it
again starting from another spot. Then we have a hunt race where the
hunters must pass the other monster trucks. Finally we might have an
elimination race. We do this in a few different areas.
Monster Jam Showdown looks nice, and has a great narrator. We race, do
tricks in freestyle and more. I keep getting stuck on the wheels of
other monster trucks. The assists can be more of a pain than anything at
times. I would not be able to go and hit certain objects because the
assists would move me away from them. I tried to make a change to the
difficulty setting after playing a few races and was unable to find it.
The key to the freestyle tricks in Monster Jam Showdown are to keep that
combo going. If you just keep jumping, and doing wheelies then you will
be fine. Once I figured out the combo trick it was easy to get past
those levels. There are some monster races that can be done against
better trucks if you collect all of the tokens for a certain event type.
I think Monster Jam Showdown could be beaten in three hours or less.
There is little reason to go back and replay Monster Jam Showdown unless
you want to start over at a harder difficulty. The racing feels really
slow unless you charge up the limited boost. Those boosts were good for
spots like the jumps to hit targets in the air. I wanted to like Monster
Jam Showdown so much more. Honestly I found this game to be pretty dull,
and boring. The controls are usually good. At times I would fight with
them.
- Paul
Graphics: 70%
Sound: 75%
Replay/Extras: 60%
Gameplay: 60%
Family Friendly Factor: 70%
System: Nintendo Switch/PC/PS4/PS5/Xbox One/Xbox Series X
Publisher: Milestone
Developer: Milestone
Rating: ‘E’ - SIX and OLDER ONLY
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