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Thunder Truck Rally

Monster Trucks offers nine rugged off-roaders with which to race across jagged, imposing terrains. Not the only game to twist the racing genre to this end, but as you'd expect from Psygnosis, the quality of…

70 1 July 1997

Thunder Truck Rally is a racing, released 1 July 1997 on PlayStation.

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What Thunder Truck Rally is

Thunder Truck Rally was released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Monster Trucks offers nine rugged off-roaders with which to race across jagged, imposing terrains. Not the only game to twist the racing genre to this end, but as you'd expect from Psygnosis, the quality of presentation is head and shoulders above the rest. There are two types of courses; circuits offer demanding hilly terrains which can easily trash the vehicle and must be learned intimately. Endurance courses offer greater freedom, with the aim of finding the best route to link eight dispersed checkpoints. To avoid any disorientation, arrows guide you to the next marker. Each area, be it snowy or volcanic, has characteristic features and hazards, yet this doesn't stop a repetitive feel…
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How it was received

Thunder Truck Rally holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Thunder Truck Rally launched on 1 July 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game and Lula: The Sexy Empire. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.

Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire.

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When did Thunder Truck Rally come out?
Thunder Truck Rally was released on 1 July 1997 for PlayStation.

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