When Bob Chandler started work on the first Bigfoot monster truck in the mid '70s, he surely had no idea that his creation would spawn a popular new motorsport. He also couldn't have guessed that Bigfoot would be headlining a handheld racing game more than 30 years later. That's just as well, because if he'd known about Bigfoot Collision Course for the Nintendo DS back then, he might have abandoned the whole monster-truck idea to save us from it. Bigfoot Collision Course isn't just a racing game that lacks any real sense of speed--it's also a racing game with less than two hours' worth of uninspired content and which lacks any multiplayer component whatsoever. In short, it's almost impossible to recommend.
Gameplay options are limited to practice sessions, quick races, and a bare-bones Career mode. Practice sessions afford you an opportunity to drive around tracks without any opposition, but none of the course designs are even close to being challenging enough to warrant you learning your way around them. The Quick Race mode is literally pointless because the only difference between it and the Career mode is that you can't unlock any additional trucks or tracks in quick races. At the outset of your career, you have access to only two monster trucks, there are only four tracks to race, and you can compete only at an amateur level. Eight easy three-lap races later, you're done with the amateurs and can race in "Pro Stock" competitions. Winning races doesn't get any harder when you step up to the Pro Stock class, but the trucks are faster and some of the courses are a little longer. After winning another eight three-lap races, you get to go head-to-head against a truck named Bigwheels on the only remotely interesting course in the game, and after winning that, there's nothing else to do unless you feel compelled to go back and beat your best times.
MINIMUM
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor
256MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk Space
Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 9
MAXIMUM
Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM (High)
30 GB Hard dDisk Space
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card
Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11
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