That might sound odd when referring to a game that allows you to essentially dress your monster truck up as a toaster, but beyond its admittedly mental collection of unlockable skins, Monster Truck Championship arguably lacks that little spark of magic that could have made it something genuinely unique. With the kind of fun but still pretty bad, Rambo: The Video Game and the….kind of fun but still pretty bad, Terminator Resistance to their name, there was nothing in their back catalogue to suggest that their next game would be something of this ilk, but to their credit, while it’s unlikely to pull up any trees, Monster Truck Championship is undoubtedly their best game to date (perhaps damning with faint praise there), but also a genuinely fun racer. Their track record is far from exemplary, and up to this point, has had absolutely nothing to do with racing games (let alone monster trucks).
If you haven’t heard of the developer, Teyon, well, that’s not particularly surprising. Instead, we get a well-made racer with just enough in the way of pleasing stupidity for it to stand out from the increasingly po-faced racing crowd while remaining somewhat ‘simmy’ in its own right. Don’t get me wrong, this is a somewhat surprisingly enjoyable racer, it’s just that, well, I guess I was hoping for something more in line with Excite Truck – a game that truly leans into the absurdity of these vehicles by turning everything up to 11. Well, overdue or not, monster trucks are finally making an appearance on this generation of consoles in the form of Teyon’s, Monster Truck Championship, a game that is often kinda goofy, but not quite as consistently goofy as I would have hoped. I mean, do you know anyone who has ever driven a monster truck? I certainly don’t. How aren’t there more games based on monster trucks? They’re almost perfect for video games – they’re big, kind dumb and realistically out of bounds for the vast majority of human beings. So when was the last one? Off the top of my head, I really have no idea, and considering we are talking about video games here, that’s pretty crazy. I think they might have just been, y’ know, normal trucks – albeit excitable ones. Man, when was the last monster truck game? The last I played was the criminally underplayed, Excite Truck on Nintendo Switch, and honestly, I’m not sure if the trucks in that game were even of the ‘monster’ persuasion.
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