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Activision to make Monster Jam

Publisher signs an exclusive multiyear agreement for the rights to the games for the series featuring larger-than-life lorries.

Santa Monica, California-based publisher Activision has acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and distribute Monster Jam games. Monster trucks will soon be skidding onto "all platforms," with a first game coming for "this holiday," said a statement from the publisher.

The Monster Jam US live event series features huge trucks--including the Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, El Toro Loco, and Monster Mutt--in racing and freestyle competitions. Live Nation (Motor Sports) president Charlie Mancuso promised a "game which will also appeal to gamers by going above and way beyond anything we could do at the live events; it will have it all."

20 Comments

  • Oseanis

    Posted Sep 1, 2008 6:47 pm GMT

    Sounds cool. I was super excited when I got my first monster jam game, because I'd been looking for a long time. We got the cover signed by a bunch of the guys who came to Canada. Oh and the first monster truck game I played was Thunder truck ralley but I never owned it, just rented it. Back in the days when I didn't think about saying "I lost it. Here's the money for it." Haha.

  • TRYJAY

    Posted Jan 5, 2008 5:22 pm GMT

    Any idea how to change controls??
    Wood like to use me joysyck....?

  • bmmsballerbajwa

    Posted Nov 28, 2007 6:49 pm GMT

    man, monster jam, i havent even heard about this crap

  • gamer2424

    Posted Jul 14, 2007 12:19 am GMT

    I am going to have to agree with icytower38, They need to make the game as close as possible to the real thing, not having power ups, I would like the game to have it where you go to Las Vegas and win a world title in freestyle or racing. Just please Activison make a relistic monster jam game.

  • aaronikiss

    Posted Apr 13, 2007 11:11 am GMT

    I'm looking forward to this. I was just at the Monster Jam world finals in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago. They had an Activision guy there talking about the game. And advertisements for the game. Should be really cool.

  • graveyard3

    Posted Mar 30, 2007 3:52 am GMT

    Hopefully this thing will actually be realistic.... not driving through the grand canyon shooting down the other trucks with crappy made up weapons. I want it to be just like going to a live show that I drive in.

  • theKSMM

    Posted Mar 24, 2007 8:26 am GMT

    It's about time somebody catered to the redneck gamer. This should be decent.

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Mar 24, 2007 6:05 am GMT

    This might be fun... or horrible.

  • berkner_ram77

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 8:38 pm GMT

    Yes, I love monster trucks, and I can't wait to drive some of them. I only wonder if they have classic monster trucks also. I just loved Monster Patrol.

  • Star_Wars117

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 2:21 pm GMT

    This might be fun

  • namdar

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 2:13 pm GMT

    CAROLINA CRUSHER !!!!! !! and of course the truck very near and dear to my heart BIG FOOT !

  • gatsbythepig

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 1:25 pm GMT

    It'll be Monster Jamtastic

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 12:59 pm GMT

    Monster Jam as a video game? This will end up dreadful. It just doesn't work as a game idea too well.

  • Daffy101

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 11:48 am GMT

    azizrulez...you really dont know what monster jam is?

  • SpiderFreak

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 10:47 am GMT

    kicking222 is win.

  • ryan71889

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 10:42 am GMT

    nice i cant wait.. GRAVE DIGGER!!!!!!!!!

  • zsc4

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 10:07 am GMT

    This is not that interesting IMO, I'll pass on this game and it doesn't really effect me in any way that Monster Jam has been bought.

  • icytower

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 9:24 am GMT

    I've been waiting for a real Monster Jam game for years. Previous games have been good, I just hope this one really captures the feal and keeps it legit instead of extra crap like other ones. So in other words give me racing, freestyle and keep powerups and destroying the other trucks to a minimum please Actvision.

    As long as this game does not look like 100% BS I'll be picking it up very close to release date as I'm a HUGE Monster Jam fan! (Grave Digger, Bounty Hunter & Monster Mutt)

    EDIT: Oh GS come on give create the game page and give us a link please.

  • kicking222

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 9:06 am GMT

    Oh man, right after I figure out how to finally beat "Big Rigs: OtRR", I'm going to pick this bad boy up.

  • Derrick718

    Posted Mar 23, 2007 8:49 am GMT

    Sounds interesting.

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