The first actual in-game trailer for the upcoming Monster Truck Championship for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC from French publisher Nacon and Polish studio Teyon Entertainment, was let loose in the wild and it doesn’t look like a bad game. It features 25 different circuits to race across and up to eight players in competitive online multiplayer action. It’s just unfortunate that they decided to go with some completely off-putting rap music that doesn’t match the game at all.
I’m not sure why publishers tend to think that just because some coked up music moguls have latched onto the idea that a bunch of brain-adled millennials who don’t know the difference between protected speech and choosing to take offense are into animal sounds and jungle beats doesn’t mean the rest of us are.
Would it be too much to include music befitting the monster truck culture? Southern rock? Country metal? Classic rock, maybe?
Anyway, you can check out the trailer for the first gameplay below to get an idea of what Monster Truck Championship is like in action.
Unsuitable music aside, the actual gameplay looks solid here.
The action will be spread across five different game types, including Race, Drag, Time-Trial, Freestyle, and Destruction. Each of these modes will be featured in the Career Mode, or you can dabble in some head-to-head battles against other players in the online multiplayer modes.
The detailed cockpit view contains a lot of the mechanical intricacies of an actual monster truck, and it feels like Teyon actually put some time and effort into attempting to bring the motorsports event to life with some measure of authenticity… at least visually.
From a physics standpoint, it looks like you can pull off many of the tricks and stunts you see in the actual live events, such as wheelies, endos, and spin-outs.
The physics don’t just start and end with the way the monster trucks handle (which is obviously the biggest factor in the game being fun or not), but it also extends to the objects within the environment that you can crush, roll over, bust through, and smash.
We see mock houses splinter and burst into pieces after gunning through it at full speed, or porta-potties getting ejected into the air as you topple them over in a dirt arena.
I had my reservations, but from the outside looking in the game looks like it could be a great entry in genre of monster truck racing games.
Monster Truck Championship is due out this October for home consoles and PC. For more information feel free to visit the official website.
