PSX Extreme: "Popularized in the ‘80s with the help of Bigfoot and Grave Digger, Monster Truck events are loud, thrilling, and loaded with gasoline-infused adrenaline. If it isn’t your thing, don’t bother with Monster Jam: Path to Destruction; it certainly isn’t good enough to spark a sudden interest in the big-wheel sport. For the fans, it might be good enough, provided you’re willing to deal with a surprisingly steep learning curve, some drab technicals, and a one-dimensional career that doesn’t exactly feature a ton of depth or customization. On the good side, there’s a fair amount of entertainment and the atmosphere seems to work. The physics aren’t bad, the controls are okay, and the various events, vehicles, and required skill is appreciated to some degree. Trust me, if I can have a wee bit of fun playing a monster truck game, it can’t be that terrible."
Ben writes: "Ah yes, Monster Jam. A bizarre obsession in America, ranking close with NASCAR as an one of our most popular vehicle-based “sports” wherein the drivers perform amazing stunts and complete speedy races to awe the crowd. Really, both are incredibly simplistic endeavors, but they manage to gather enough popularity to create a handful of console games, a few of which get ported over to the Wii with, ah, mixed results. Thus enters Monster Jam: Path of Destruction."
Does the latest Monster Jam game live up to its monster truck reputation? Sadly, no. It's all flat.
Monster Jam: Path of Destruction is a decent enough game. The use of realistic trucks, combined with the unique handling of a monster truck, make this a nice diversion from the typical racer. It is a competent enough game that will generally please the monster truck fanbase, but it is also a fairly limited game that isn’t as deep as it might appear. That, combined with some of its other aforementioned limitations, makes this at best an average title, although the demographic looking for a monster truck fix might not care.
