i think that, if for nothing else, this game should be remembered for the characters it had. not trucks -- there were 6 actual characters you could play as. this had no effect on anything. i'm not even sure the characters had models inside of the truck. they didn't have icons for placements in races -- nothing

• rookie, a 20-year-old student who's hobby was "picking up chicks"

• schizo, a 41-year-old guy wearing an aviator's hat with the job field labeled "eventual"

• calamity, a 25-year-old salsa dancing policewoman

• the colonel, who was a 48-year-old air force colonel who just so happened to also race monster trucks

• crazy dog, a 33-year-old south dakotan native american who worked as a bodyguard and liked to provoke riots in bars

• and mom, a 51-year-old waitress from nevada who -- and this isn't a joke -- had "Bingo, bets casinos & motor" listed as her hobbies

this game was not good. but man, did ubisoft know how to make an engaging roster of characters