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Monster Truck Destruction

 
We looked for a great Monster Truck game on PC, but found these insteadFeb 7, 2018 - PC GamerIn 2016, a Hollywood movie studio thought it was a good idea to release a literal interpretation of "monster" trucks in a movie that supposedly cost more than $100 million. They called it… Monster Trucks. A squishy alien creature meets a couple of kids, the kids shove the critter into a monster truck, and they battle against the type of corporate goons that exist only in movies. The recent history of monster truck games isn’t quite so adventurous. Steam hasn’t seen a licensed monster truck game since 2015, and none of those feature Godzilla behind the wheel (radioactive breath exhaust? Yes please). Instead, Steam’s roster focuses on the EPA-infuriating, super polluting, car crushing machine acrobatics in their truest real world form. How dull—in comparison to Godzilla trucks anyway. Delving deep into this forgotten sub-genre shows… not much, actually. Games about monster trucks crushing cars and doing sick jumps are rare and mostly terrible. Steam added 7,000 games in 2017, and not one of them was about monster trucks. But if you need your fix anyway, here are the the monster truck games worth your time. Monster Jam Battlegrounds Battlegrounds starts in a forest. Screw nature. Run it over. Or, let exhaust poison the air. Before everything dies, take on a bunch of tracks in the rollercoaster-like style of Trials HD, a 2.5D motorbike game about balance, speed management, and shaving seconds off your best time. Take to the air, stay level, and hope you land properly. If that’s somehow boring, take one of Battleground’s 23 trucks into 3rd person stadium racing, filled with dirt and jumps to make the ticket price worth it. Assume the dirt is made up of the ashes of the forest and it seems crueler still.  Monster Truck Destruction Smashing through a trailer that shatters like cardboard, leaping into the air and landing on the roof of a school bus, and running over piles of junk cars: Monster Truck Destruction isn’t subtle. It really likes breaking things. Never mind the school systems that probably need those buses—watching them collapse under giant tires is way more satisfying than getting kids educated. Multiplayer matchmaking remains in beta (since 2015, so it’s not happening). Slamming into AI trucks is probably it, and since they lack the "I" in "AI," busting them up is as frequent as it is easy. Destruction knows what people want. The opening screens ask players if they "Want to buy this awesome monster truck?" None of them are considered anything less than awesome. Just look at those things. Every one of them is awesome because they break stuff.  Off-Road Super Racing The record top speed of a monster truck—in reality—is just shy of 100mph. It’s called "The Raminator," because of course it is. According to the speedometer in the free Off-Road Super Racing, Raminator’s puny speed is n...Update 2.59 - August 18thAug 18, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsHi, Thanks for all the comments on the Community Hub, we have been paying close attention and now we have another update! Release Notes Resolved startup issues Introduce physics performance setting under options Fixed drag start lights / timing not being meaningful Minor performance improvements Removed "Remove Ads" UI Minor UI bugs fixed - JamesUpdate 2.59 - August 18thAug 18, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsHi, Thanks for all the comments on the Community Hub, we have been paying close attention and now we have another update! Release Notes Resolved startup issues Introduce physics performance setting under options Fixed drag start lights / timing not being meaningful Minor performance improvements Removed "Remove Ads" UI Minor UI bugs fixed - JamesBug Fix Update - July 23rd - Controls Fixes and Match Making Multiplayer!Jul 23, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsPATCH NOTES Enabled access to multiplayer beta, please note, THIS IS MATCH MAKING ONLY AI difficulty overhaul, remove AI start boost and fixed some racing lines Mouse input fixed in Windows verison Improved steering for keyboard & controllers Acceleration properly mapped to triggers on controllers Braking & reverse properly mapped to triggers on controllers Added better support for steering wheels Removed controller & graphics setup at startup and replaced with graphics options in menu Added ability to control mouse cursor with right analog stick Controller Support List The following describes the current state of support controllers, please contact us with your controller brand and model if it does not work so we may try to include it in future updates. Supported & Tested: Xbox Wired (OSX & Windows) Logitech Gamepad F310 Thrustmaster FGT Rumble 3-in-1 Wheel Logitech Driving Force GT Supported: Executioner X on Windows and Mac. GameStick on itself and on Linux. Hama Black Force on Windows. Logitech F510 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Logitech F710 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Logitech WingMan on Windows. MaxFire Blaze5 on Windows. Moga Pro on Windows, Mac and Linux. Natec Genesis P44 on Windows. NVIDIA Shield on Windows. PlayStation 2 controller on Windows (with adapter) PlayStation 3 controller on Windows, Mac and Linux. PlayStation 4 controller on Windows, Mac, Linux. Speedlink Strike on Windows and Mac. SteelSeries Free on Windows, Mac and Linux. Valve Streaming Gamepad on Windows. Xbox 360 controller on Windows, Mac, Linux. Xbox One controller on Windows and Mac. A variety of Xbox 360 clones are supported. Unsupported but may work: Logitech G25 Wheel Logitech G27 Wheel Bug Fix Update - July 23rd - Controls Fixes and Match Making Multiplayer!Jul 23, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsPATCH NOTES Enabled access to multiplayer beta, please note, THIS IS MATCH MAKING ONLY AI difficulty overhaul, remove AI start boost and fixed some racing lines Mouse input fixed in Windows verison Improved steering for keyboard & controllers Acceleration properly mapped to triggers on controllers Braking & reverse properly mapped to triggers on controllers Added better support for steering wheels Removed controller & graphics setup at startup and replaced with graphics options in menu Added ability to control mouse cursor with right analog stick Controller Support List The following describes the current state of support controllers, please contact us with your controller brand and model if it does not work so we may try to include it in future updates. Supported & Tested: Xbox Wired (OSX & Windows) Logitech Gamepad F310 Thrustmaster FGT Rumble 3-in-1 Wheel Logitech Driving Force GT Supported: Executioner X on Windows and Mac. GameStick on itself and on Linux. Hama Black Force on Windows. Logitech F510 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Logitech F710 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Logitech WingMan on Windows. MaxFire Blaze5 on Windows. Moga Pro on Windows, Mac and Linux. Natec Genesis P44 on Windows. NVIDIA Shield on Windows. PlayStation 2 controller on Windows (with adapter) PlayStation 3 controller on Windows, Mac and Linux. PlayStation 4 controller on Windows, Mac, Linux. Speedlink Strike on Windows and Mac. SteelSeries Free on Windows, Mac and Linux. Valve Streaming Gamepad on Windows. Xbox 360 controller on Windows, Mac, Linux. Xbox One controller on Windows and Mac. A variety of Xbox 360 clones are supported. Unsupported but may work: Logitech G25 Wheel Logitech G27 Wheel Controller issuesJul 12, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsIt seems that there are some pretty major problems with the current build and I'd like to apologise to all of you who are experiencing issues. The team is looking into what went wrong and we aim to have an update for you as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience, we're on it.Controller issuesJul 12, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsIt seems that there are some pretty major problems with the current build and I'd like to apologise to all of you who are experiencing issues. The team is looking into what went wrong and we aim to have an update for you as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience, we're on it.

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