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CHASE FIELD MONSTER TRUCK JAM TRIAL
Finding out what truck drives better is a matter of trial and error. In the truck listings, there is a description that includes the make/model of the truck as well as the engine and transmission names, but doesn't have any stats for them. Even the trucks were given a slapdash treatment. As for the illegal races, they're made extremely difficult by a haphazard camera system that I'll explain later.

I have to admit I didn't feel too disappointed because each legal race required nine laps on the same track to win, three laps for each of the three trucks in the different heats. Make a slight mistake and it'll turn into a ten or twenty second error that blows the whole race. On the regular races, it's easy to get the truck stuck in a hole or on top of an obstacle. After messing up, I was forced to go through a menu and two load screens to try again.

The exhibition matches are required to make money to pay for the regular races, but they have quirky camera problems that make precise driving difficult and they don't even have a retry button. These races started out as being fun, in a mindless truck-racing kind of way, but problems quickly crept in.
CHASE FIELD MONSTER TRUCK JAM SERIES
Playing in the single-player mode takes a tour of the country, hitting all of these different races along with some exhibition matches in which the goal is to please the crowd by doing tricks, like crushing a series of cars or doing donuts and kicking up dirt. Boosting all of the action is the regular turbo which can overheat the engine as well as power-ups that give more speed, traction, strength, or suspension. The illegal races are more freeform, racing in open areas against five other trucks through a series of checkpoints. The legal races are in dirt coliseums with plenty of bumps to jump and small cars to crunch during a one-on-one race.

Gameplay MoM features turbo charged monster trucks in races both legal and illegal. For a session of rampaging and bashing into other pickups on steroids, MoM brings a few moments of blissful chaos in an otherwise high-speed wreck of a game. Monster 4x4: Masters of Metal is a heavy metal 4x4 bang-em-up with plenty of huge trucks, wheelies, broken axles, dirt jumps, and power-up arcade action.
