- Hundreds of new monsters with new monster attitudes
- You're The Master: Fully interact with your new pets
- Unlock Secret expeditions, levels, and monsters
- Release your Monster Rancher 1 into the world of Monster Rancher 2

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Product description

Monster Rancher 2 is the sequel to one of the strangest and most innovative games ever produced. It is a virtual pet simulator in many ways, but transcends that description by virtue of its varied gameplay elements and combat-oriented theme. The game begins with the creation of a monster, which is accomplished by inserting any CD (even an audio CD) into the PlayStation. A unique monster is generated from the data that is imbedded on each CD. Once you have your unique CD-generated beast, it's time to go to the ranch for training. With each training session, you will raise your monster stamina and strength statistics, which gives each particular monster a better chance for success in the game's exciting combat mode. Sending an undisciplined monster into the arena is a recipe for failure, so much of our playing time involved training our creations and watching them develop into lethal, confident juggernauts. No two monsters are the same, and each develops its own unique personality as the game progresses. We became more attached to this game's creations than other games in the genre because of this well-executed feature. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: Unlimited replay potential Better graphics than before Cons: Training requires much patience
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Monster Rancher 2
is the sequel to one of the strangest and most innovative games ever produced. It is a virtual pet simulator in many ways, but transcends that description by virtue of its varied gameplay elements and combat-oriented theme. The game begins with the creation of a monster, which is accomplished by inserting any CD (even an audio CD) into the PlayStation. A unique monster is generated from the data that is imbedded on each CD. Once you have your unique CD-generated beast, it's time to go to the ranch for training. With each training session, you will raise your monster stamina and strength statistics, which gives each particular monster a better chance for success in the game's exciting combat mode.

Sending an undisciplined monster into the arena is a recipe for failure, so much of our playing time involved training our creations and watching them develop into lethal, confident juggernauts. No two monsters are the same, and each develops its own unique personality as the game progresses. We became more attached to this game's creations than other games in the genre because of this well-executed feature. --T. Byrl Baker


Pros:


Unlimited replay potential
Better graphics than before

Cons:

Training requires much patience



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Review

Like all passing trends, virtual pets have made their swift exit from the forefront of American pop culture and can now only be found at the bottom of bargain bins at overstocked toy stores. Amidst the Tamagotchi madness of 1997, a PlayStation game showed you that you didn't have to be a preteen to enjoy raising a virtual monster. With a deeply involved play style centered around simplistic controls, Monster Rancher was aimed at a slightly more mature audience than those of the pocket pets, and it easily gave you the best pet you could ever virtually own. And, even though virtual pets have been taken off key chains and stuffed into closets, Monster Rancher 2 shows you that, if done right, monster breeding has the staying power to be a lifelong passion.

The premise hasn't changed much from the first game. You stick any CD into your PlayStation, which reads a segment from the disc and then uses that data to generate your monster - a combination of two basic types. From there, it's your responsibility as a certified monster breeder to train your monster to fight. You control every aspect of his training - from simple drills designed to increase his six basic stats to errantry training designed to teach him new attack techniques. Once your monster is strong enough to handle himself in the ring, you can enter him into a competition to raise his status. Your ultimate goal is to raise your monster-breeding stats from an E level to the coveted S level. Once there, you can create all sorts of special monsters that you weren't cleared to create before. Along the way you'll run into interesting characters, explore ancient ruins for lost treasure, spar with your monster, expand your ranch, build shrines, hold funeral services for fallen monsters, and even receive fan mail.

There are tons of differences from the original. Instead of cutesy 2D animations, you now have fully 3D cutscenes that show exactly how your monster is training. On top of that, your monster now has two new choices when executing a drill - he can cheat or he can do better than usual, resulting in above-average stat increases. When you send your monster off to a training ground to learn new techniques, he'll actually run through a series of various tasks instead of just standing beneath a waterfall for a month. Raising a monster is now more complex. Your monster has morale, a nature, a defining fighting style, a specific weight, specific likes and dislikes, and stress. And, unlike in the original, the battle competitions are more balanced. In Monster Rancher 2, you don't necessarily have to beat every monster you come across to win a round-robin tournament.

Visually, the game looks very good. The monsters and the landscapes are well rendered in 3D, and the menu-based conversation and selections are nicely drawn sprites. Your monster will behave differently depending o