Monster Racer isn't even decent, if you find this game steer clear from it, as it's as bad as Stateshift for PSP.
This is where the problems come in. The graphics are appauling, even for a late PS1 game, it's the same standard graphics as Soul Reaver (but that was a good game, at least). The racing feels really clunky, and it feels like your playing a game that just can't work. Luckily this is the only game of the Monster Racer series, although more annoying is the Crazy Frog Racer games.
The weapons are a bit like Crash Team Racing's (CTR for short) weapons, you have missles, goo slick, they don't even have any names at all. Thats annoying too, plus the music is generally the same, and thus shows that Microids haven't spent alot of time on this. Probably like a month on 1 game, even some flash games online you'll find are better than this. I had this game pretty much since it was released, completed it with this skeleton guy, and gave up, and I was only like 9!
Now come the race tracks, again there is a bit of detail but not enough for it to stand out, via Gran Tursimo and Crash Team Racing. From a jungle, to a desert, icy glaciers to a graveyard with a jungle theme? I mean not the most inventive but it suits the games name.
Overall Monster Racer should be given a different name, like Monstrousity of Racers, now that would suit it better. If you do find this game, if it's cheap by it if you dare, but I guarentee you won't be amazed.