It’s a handling model that ensures races are a fun jostle – somewhat reminiscent of the excellent Wreckfest, in fact – and not a staid slog. The game also offers options to tweak your experience, the most pertinent of which is whether or not you want damage to be visual-only in nature or have a genuine effect on the driving experience. Monster Truck Championship maintains a solid balance between making the trucks feel suitably hefty and grounded, and making the controls loose enough to allow you to powerslide around any corner. Thankfully, it’s another tick in the win column here. Speaking of the vehicle models, the size would serve for nothing.
The graphics won’t blow you away (although there are some lovely sunlight effects on display), but stadiums are well detailed and the vehicle models are big and chunky. But it does that thing that good nostalgia bait – intentional or not – does, in that it does a pretty good job of looking how I remember PS1 racing games looking. Not that I’m suggesting that it looks like a PS1 game, of course. However, one of the most positive things I can say about Monster Truck Championship is that it very much reminded me of my time with racing games in the PlayStation One era, which might actually be my favourite era for racers.
History is certainly stacked against it, given the somewhat chequered past of monster truck games over the last 30+ years.
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