Monster Racer
Choose your favourite monster from 10 fantastic creatures, each with their own ghastly traits. Choose from Mummies, Vampires, Skeletons, Werewolves and more. Confront your competitors over 10 circuits and 10…
Monster Racer is a racing developed by Microids, released 1 February 2001 on PlayStation.
What Monster Racer is
Monster Racer is a racing game developed by Microids and released in 2001. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Choose your favourite monster from 10 fantastic creatures, each with their own ghastly traits. Choose from Mummies, Vampires, Skeletons, Werewolves and more. Confront your competitors over 10 circuits and 10 battle arenas. Help Jack O'Lantern, the pumpkin-headed man, to get his lanterns back thanks to which werewolf, witch, skeleton or vampire can find the unique way to Earth to celebrate Halloween with humans. Find the quickest champion of Halloween lands and defeat the forces of evil.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Monster Racer holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Monster Racer launched on 1 February 2001, within three weeks of Severance: Blade of Darkness, Oni, Onimusha: Warlords and Star Wars: Starfighter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Severance: Blade of Darkness, Oni, Onimusha: Warlords, Star Wars: Starfighter.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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