Console Monster: "The Xbox 360 has been graced with some incredible racing titles since its release in 2005. Project Gotham Racing 4, Forza Motorsport 2 and even the newly-released Race Driver: GRID are just a few of the titles which spring to mind. But with great success, comes great failure, and after looking at preview trailers for Monster Jam, I had little hope that the title would join the successors. Don't get me wrong, I love racing games, but when one of the main selling points of the game is "Race Outdoors!", it really gives you little faith in the title.
Monster Jam is based on the live motorsport event tour and television show of the same name in which monster trucks compete against each other in racing and freestyle for entertainment. Believe it or not, this isn't the first game in the series. In 2002 and 2003, Ubisoft (responsible for the Far Cry and Prince of Persia series) released Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction and Monster 4x4: Masters of Metal respectively. Now Activision (responsible for the Call of Duty and Guitar Hero series) has hold of the license and has brought monster trucking to the next generation of gaming..."
