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Monster Trucks

Robert Mull

Monster Trucks

by Robert Mull » Sun, 18 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Microsoft has released the demo to there Monster Truck Rally game. It
is on there web site. All in all it looks pretty cool for a Win95
game. Cool graphics in the vein of Need For Speed which seem to run
very well even without a 3D card. On my P-150 oc'd to 166 I can turn
everything up to full tilt in 640x480 and get a very playable
framerate(propably btwn 20+23 fps). Definitely fun from what I have
played but dont confuse it with a simulation. My only *** is once
again I cant get my controls to work in Win95 which I think is thanks
to my SB32 PnP which is about to go away. Try it out if they can get
this kind of graphics without an accellerator I cant wait to see what
the 3D cards can do.

Thomas Meurli

Monster Trucks

by Thomas Meurli » Mon, 19 Aug 1996 04:00:00


I have tried it to and it is actually pretty cool, but in no way a sim.
One of the nicest things with it though is that you can play it against
each other over the Internet. I wish that was possible with GP2 or ICR2.

Thomas Meurling

Sundsvall, Sweden

Keith Spero

Monster Trucks

by Keith Spero » Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:00:00





>>>Microsoft has released the demo to there Monster Truck Rally game. It
>>>is on there web site. All in all it looks pretty cool for a Win95
>>>game. Cool graphics in the vein of Need For Speed which seem to run
>>>very well even without a 3D card. On my P-150 oc'd to 166 I can turn
>>>everything up to full tilt in 640x480 and get a very playable
>>>framerate(propably btwn 20+23 fps). Definitely fun from what I have
>>>played but dont confuse it with a simulation. My only *** is once
>>>again I cant get my controls to work in Win95 which I think is thanks
>>>to my SB32 PnP which is about to go away. Try it out if they can get
>>>this kind of graphics without an accellerator I cant wait to see what
>>>the 3D cards can do.

I loved, it but like people have said, there's no damage. I think i
may even buy the retail version.

Keith Speroni

Richard Harve

Monster Trucks

by Richard Harve » Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:00:00


> This isn't a sim because you get no damage and you can call the
> pre-historic dino to help you :)

> --KCI

I wouldn't necessarily call that a determining factor.  In Nascar 2, the
"damage" you incur is hardly realistic -- you can never blow a tire, and
no matter how much hood damage you suffer, the aerodynamics seem to
always stay just dandy for 200mph runs down the straights.  So, if
damage is just eye candy, why bother?

Rich

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