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Monster Jam 2011 headed for a truckload of consoles
Did you have some toast for breakfast this morning? Perhaps you would have enjoyed it more with some MONSTER JAM. Activision has announced Monster Jam 2011, a new game in its series of licensed monster truck racing games, for Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, and DS for release this fall. Monster Jam 2011 includes your favorite jamming monster trucks, like Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, and Grinder (30 trucks in total), as well as eight real stadiums in which the monsters can jam. It features a single-player career mode in which players compete to reach the Monster Jam World Finals, as well as a head-to-head mode. Charlie Mancuso, president of Feld Motor Sports, the company that produces the real-life Monster Jam, said in the announcement, "our fans are going to flip when they get their hands on it!" Hopefully said fans aren't in monster trucks at the time, or it would be tragic.
Donkey Kong becomes a monster truck
Much like getting a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, we're not sure if being transmogrified into a monster truck means that a icon has "finally arrived" or has leapt headfirst into the inky blackness of cultural irrelevance. For better or for worse, Donkey Kong, noted primate, kart racer and plumber antagonist, has just made the fateful jump.Just as informative of the images of the Monster Jam truck (which actually bears a striking resemblance to DK) are the (plentiful) reactions of children at the ape's automotive debut, all of who attempt to describe how "cool" and "awesome" the truck is, but seem to be incapable of capturing the grandeur with mere words. Luckily, the camera pans away before they result to guttural grunts and screeching.[Thanks, Shawn]
