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Monster 4X4 World Circuit wii Game Reviews
Monster 4X4 World Circuit
Critic Score
Metascore: 51 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.5 out of 10
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Use the Wii Remote to perform spectacular stunts, jump and race the most powerful Monster Trucks, and go head-to-head in pulse-pounding off-road competitions all over the world. . Whether you’re grinding through the desert of Egypt, crunching up snowy mountains in Russia, or smashing up trees in California to make the ride a little bumpier for the guy behind you, keep your eyes on the prize: The cash you earn on the circuit goes to customize your trucks and build up your ultimate Monster machine. Personalize your truck’s appearance with sweet paint jobs and decals and soup up its performance by maxing out its speed, jumping and destruction capabilities. Win races, unleash spectacular stunts and jumps, and demolish everything in sight to win cash and upgrade your Monster truck to the ultimate stomping machine. Tear through 40 Monster events in the hairiest off-road circuits your tires have ever seen. Smoke the competition as you blaze through exciting new locations all over the world, such as Egypt, Moscow, Barcelona, San Francisco, South Dakota and more. Master your tricks in Quick Race mode as you taste all of the thrills, spills, twists and rolls of Monster Truck racing. [Ubisoft]

PUBLISHER: Ubisoft
DEVELOPER: Ubisoft
GENRE(S): Racing, Driving
PLAYERS: 4
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: November 16, 2006

What The Critics Said

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70
GameZone
The courses are short and usually sweet, and the controls are intuitive without being overly sensitive, paving the way for Wii newbies who might not be used to the console’s motion controls.
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65
Nintendo Power
And Monster 4x4 plays nicely as long as you don't expect too much challenge from Ubisoft's arcade-inspired ride. [Jan. 2007, p.102]
65
GamePro
Monster 4x4 isn't a particularly deep title, but you'd have to be a fool to go into thinking that it would be. It's probably best as a weekend rental to blast through with your friends.
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64
Games Master UK
Suitably fast and fun but it gets samey and a bit dull in single-player. [Jan 2007, p.82]
53
Official Nintendo Magazine UK
Not even the insubstantial freesteering wheel device makes it worth the purchase. [Jan 2007, p.80]
51
NGamer UK
Forget calling it 'the one that comes with the plastic wheel'; this is 'the one with the shoddy graphics and limited control.'[January 2007, p.57]
48
IGN
While Monster 4X4 adds more entertainment around the included wheel peripheral and an overall stronger game than GT Pro Series, it still suffers from downgraded graphics and an overall lack of style when compared to its Xbox predecessor that released just a few months ago.
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40
GameSpot
New driving controls add barely a smidgen of excitement to this Wii port of a thoroughly boring monster truck racer.
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40
PALGN
Monster 4X4: World Circuit is a budget port of an Xbox title, we're getting it almost a year later and at full price. The game wasn't great originally and it still isn't.
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40
Games Radar
Few people will accuse Monster 4x4 World Circuit of being a good game, but it's been dressed up enough that it at least crawls out of the sub-mediocre sewer.
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40
EuroGamer
After a jovial couple of hours in its company the scales will fall, and what had just seemed an unpretentious, unassumingly enjoyable videogame becomes a kind of existential nightmare of averageness that it's impossible to play for a minute longer. Monster 4x4: World Circuit is the definition of the lowest common denominator.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Damon A. gave it a6:
Good-very easy to control, lot of upgrades (primary color, secondary color, rim color, and decals), a few other trucks can be unlocked, looks are pretty good but not great, Bad-little to no music or sound effects, too easy, few tracks, no online play, and no story or agenda. overall-fun to play for a few days but thats it

Marc H. gave it a10:
Awesome game.

Nathan H. gave it a10:
The best game that I have ever played! (and trust me I've played alot of games).

HaScHiPU FuMaNcHU gave it a4:
A game that could be a GameCube's mediocre game. Only funny in multiplayer.

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