Monster Jam Showdown
August 26, 2024
MASTER THE MOST ICONIC TRUCKS The excitement of real-life Monster Jam™ events is ready to explode, thanks to the franchise&s;s most recognizable icons: the trucks. Grave Digger™, El Toro Loco™, Megalodon™ and many others... Drive the hottest rides in Monster Jam™ racing the current fleet, the legendary history-making trucks, and …
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Critic Reviews (31)
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85.0
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15.0
"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."
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85.0
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65.0
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30.0
"A very entertaining Monster Truck racing game where the strange thing is that you don&s;t end up turning around at some point. More than 130 events where you can enjoy and compete to be the best in your TERRENEITOR!!"
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70.0
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80.0
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40.0
"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 …"
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80.0
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80.0
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80.0
"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 …"
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90.0
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70.0
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30.0
"Monster Jam Showdown is a title for the fans who aren&s;t so critical of their games. Performing stunts is undoubtedly fun, but the stadium events are boring even though they mimic what you&s;d see in a Monster Jam event. The …"
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70.0
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85.0
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50.0
"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 …"
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25.0
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35.0
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10.0
""Monster Jam Showdown brings the classic chaos and destruction of Monster Trucks to the Nintendo Switch with surprisingly good performance and smooth gameplay. While the racing action can be fun and the freestyle mode delivers thrilling stunts, the game suffers …"
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70.0
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85.0
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30.0
"It isn&s;t offering much you haven&s;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."
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70.0
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85.0
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60.0
"Monster Jam Showdown is the new game in the Monster Jam franchise, this time from Milestone, which brings us all the official Monster Trucks from this tour of events. To be Milestone&s;s first foray into Monster Truck races and events, …"
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60.0
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85.0
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35.0
"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;s offering …"
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70.0
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85.0
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30.0
"With a great technical background, too, what&s;s a bit lacking is the inventive in the single player campaign, with merely a largely repetitive sequence of events to beat with little reason or rhyme - one that even shows how little …"
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95.0
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85.0
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30.0
"Monster Jam: Showdown was made for fans of giant trucks and mayhem. Young or old, it screams out to the petrol-head in us all, with a perfect mix of Airbourne madness and racing through different environments, smashing through whatever you …"
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70.0
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85.0
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30.0
"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 …"
Read original review"Yet again I’m impressed that the Monster Truck racing subgenre is continuing to improve and justify itself"
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62.0
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87.0
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31.0
"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 …"
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65.0
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70.0
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45.0
"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, …"
Read original 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 …"
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65.0
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70.0
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30.0
"“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 …"
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60.0
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80.0
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30.0
"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."
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75.0
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90.0
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65.0
"With its extensive monster truck roster, polished presentation, and a lengthy campaign featuring a pleasing variety of game modes, Monster Jam Showdown offers a fresh take on the series and is a must-have for monster truck fans."
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65.0
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80.0
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30.0
"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 …"
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45.0
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85.0
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25.0
"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."
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60.0
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45.0
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30.0
"Monster Jam Showdown isn&s;t the best racing game of the year, but it doesn&s;t set out to be. It&s;s supposed to be an honest arcade game with an accessible career for everyone, and the developers at Milestone have succeeded."
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70.0
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60.0
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40.0
"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 …"
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75.0
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85.0
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"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 …"
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60.0
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80.0
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40.0
"Monster Jam: Showdown is fun, but little more. It&s;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;s not as fun and spectacular as I …"
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85.0
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80.0
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75.0
"Monster Jam Showdown is the definitive Monster Jam experience of this generation. With sleek gameplay, gorgeous visuals, and amazing sound design, you won&s;t want to miss this game."
Read original review"While I may not have extensive experience with monster truck racing games, I&s;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 …"
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70.0
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80.0
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40.0
"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 …"
Read original review"Combining the combos of PS2 classics with flashy, modern looking spectacle, Monster Jam Showdown is muddy good fun."
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65.0
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68.0
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55.0
"Monster Jam Showdown is what fans of the live-event motorsport have been craving for. Everything about this game properly showcases what monster trucks are all about. Some of its downsides are the repetitive content and lack of variety in environments. …"
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