Look, I am always thankful when a publisher or developer sends over a game for us to cover. While we can’t get to everything that comes across our desks, we are gamers at heart and when we do review something we try to find the best in every game we take a look at. That being said, Monster Truck Destruction is a pile of hot garbage. When you fire up a game what’s the first thing that you expect from it? How about being able to play it, because Monster Truck Destruction doesn’t even afford you that.
I’ve had this one sitting in my Steam library for a week or so (I was away at San Diego Comic-Con) so it’s been out for a little while now and still falls flat from the get-go. Getting things out-of-the-way, Monster Truck Destruction is a mobile port, and not a very good one at that. This game really has no place being on Steam as it is just taking up space on the service in its current state. Hell, there are some spots in the game where a “remove ads” buttons pops up for some strange reason. Monster Truck Destruction can’t even afford you the decency to give you a main menu.
Still, even if it did give you a menu screen you wouldn’t be able to use it because this current build of the game has a major problem. It just so happens that the controls plain don’t work and you won’t be able to access any of the games options. This is bad enough, but you can’t use the mouse either, so the Garage feature is non-functional as you can’t make any selections.
Sure, you can still select your truck and run a few races (the ones you can select without a mouse or icon selection), but it’s still not much fun. The game is almost devoid of any music, uses graphics barely on par with PS1 launch games, has extremely loose controls (you can’t even back up), and piss poor A.I. that will see your opponent have a seizure and wildly careen around the course.
This is all a shame because I was excited about jumping into Monster Truck Destruction because the idea of Monster Trucks goings nuts is just plain cool. Heck, I still remember playing Monster Truck Madness on Windows 95 back in 1996 and having loads of fun. In fact, if you can can find it, just pick that game up instead as it’s better and probably cheaper.
Monster Truck Destruction does offer up some 40 trucks from going all the way back to the ’70s, but with new trucks costing upwards of 1 million in-game bucks, odds are you’ll never get to race with any of them as even for winning racing you’ll only earn a few grand at a time. In reality you aren’t missing much as each truck handles exactly the same, and when you can’t access the Garage to perform upgrades there isn’t any reason to buy new rides anyways.
Monster Truck Destruction is an absolute mess of a game that has no reason being available for sale. It’s not even the fact that it’s a mobile port as I’ve played and reviewed a lot of mobile ports that I’ve liked, but the game is so buggy that it simply does not work. You really only need a single game tester (anyone really) to let you know that the controls just don’t work, but it would seem that zero testing was done here. Even if the game was fully functional it wouldn’t be that great, but in its current state (the state they gave it to me in) I just can’t recommend Monster Truck Destruction to anyone, even if it goes on sale for 99c someday.
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