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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Negative: 1 out of 21
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  1. Aug 26, 2024
    80
    While it will likely still only appeal to a niche audience, Monster Jam Showdown is the best monster truck game yet, inviting players to tackle a range of events across three distinct environments. Numerous assists and settings are available to make it accessible to all skill levels, and whether you prefer to play on your own or with others, you're decently catered for.
  2. Aug 26, 2024
    80
    Monster Jam Showdown is the definitive Monster Jam experience of this generation. With sleek gameplay, gorgeous visuals, and amazing sound design, you won’t want to miss this game.
  3. Aug 26, 2024
    80
    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 offering is enjoyable, convincing, and fun.
  4. Aug 26, 2024
    80
    Monster Jam Showdown brings the chaos of their live shows to your gaming systems in fine style. A huge celebration of the Monster Jam universe, Showdown absolutely nails the aesthetic and is crammed full of replayability. If you’re one of the many fans around the world, you’re going to flip for this.
  5. Aug 25, 2024
    80
    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.
  6. Aug 26, 2024
    77
    If you enjoy this style of monster trucks and want a game with high-quality graphics in the library, Monster Jam Showdown is perfect. Despite the collision issues, the game is generally quite fun and has enough content to keep you entertained for hours.
  7. Aug 26, 2024
    75
    Monster Jam Showdown is a fun and challenging game for hardcore fans only. It has few game modes but it will keep us entertained for a while. It also has very detailed graphics and intuitive controls, which will give us a good representation of these races. I insist on more game modes, because in the end it will become repetitive.
  8. Aug 26, 2024
    75
    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 months looks promising.
  9. Aug 28, 2024
    74
    A fun, easy to play, budget arcade title, Monster Jam fans of all ages will enjoy the experience even with its limitations.
  10. Oct 12, 2024
    70
    Monster Jam Showdown is an effective arcade racing game with a lot of content, although it is too repetitive. Some features such as the physics could be improved. However it guarantees many hours of fun aboard the most iconic monster trucks.
  11. Sep 2, 2024
    70
    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 capabilities. Immediate controls and high maneuverability make them suitable for many different players, especially those who do not like more complicated simulation driving systems. However, the arcade and carefree soul of the title is not enough to completely mitigate the limitations of the management of physics or the collision system, to which we must add a content offering that has not always satisfied us.
  12. Aug 26, 2024
    70
    Combining the combos of PS2 classics with flashy, modern looking spectacle, Monster Jam Showdown is muddy good fun.
  13. Aug 26, 2024
    70
    Monster Jam Showdown is a title with an arcade feel, but also an extremely technical one, designed above all for fans.
  14. Aug 26, 2024
    70
    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, creating a frequently stunning and impressive-looking game. Despite their size, the superstars of Monster Jam handle brilliantly the different environments and challenges on offer. Given that most fans who attend the real-life shows or watch on TV will have their favourite truck and driver it is a bit of a shame that pretty much all of the trucks need to be unlocked via play time and challenges. Other than that though, believe it or not, I have played a tonne of Monster Truck-themed games in my lifetime and the bar is higher than you might think. Monster Jam Showdown gets a pass from me.
  15. Aug 26, 2024
    70
    It isn't offering much you haven'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.
  16. Aug 28, 2024
    68
    Monster Jam Showdown is a game that embraces the genre's fan bubble and doesn't seem to mind breaking it to expand its popularity.
  17. Sep 5, 2024
    65
    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 a number of entertaining mechanics, but ends up presenting us with an experience that doesn't quite match the level of quality of its previous works. The result is a racing title that may be hard to recommend to anyone who isn't a monster truck fan.
  18. Aug 30, 2024
    65
    Monster Jam Showdown is, without a doubt, a robust product full of great qualities in transposing this universe to the world of games. However, the lack of diversity in content and especially its identity crisis between realistic elements and pure banter prevent it from being as fun as it could be, inflicting a shameful self-sabotage.
  19. Sep 2, 2024
    60
    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.
  20. Aug 26, 2024
    60
    Monster Jam: Showdown is fun, but little more. It'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 not as fun and spectacular as I expected. Yes, it's worth a few hours and the split screen is a great tip to spend a fun time with colleagues but, at the same time, the simplicity of its proposal and the lack of identity of the vehicles in the technical, being all the same monster truck with different costume, ends up leaving us a little disenchanted with its proposal.
  21. Aug 26, 2024
    40
    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.