There are plenty of battles you can send your monster to fight, almost all of which have cash prizes, giving you the spending money necessary to purchase accessories and food for your monster. It still has a large selection of monsters that you'll be able to raise for competition, from the Durahan, an animated suit of armor, to the Beaklon, a strange creature that looks like a cross between a rhino beetle and a lobster.Īs you progress through the game, you'll start out at the bottom rank, E, and you'll have to fight your way up through the ranks to get some of the truly impressive hidden creatures.
With a light plot, and extremely cute style monsters, Monster Rancher 3 might be a hard sell for fans of the original Monster Rancher games, but the various improvements that it has made transitioning to the PS2 make it well worth playing. Because the Monster Rancher 3 is a PS2 game, the PS2 DVD-ROM drive lets you use DVDs in addition to the normal CDs you've always been able to use. The game scans your CD, and creates a random monster based on the data found there. One of the best features of all the Monster Rancher games is that you can create a monster using a CD. Expert monster trainers, they control the Shrine, the temple that you'll need to use to create your monsters. They're all Tochikans, the native race of people in the Monster Rancher 3 universe. Featuring impressive graphics for the series, as well as a lot more plot development than the previous two games, Monster Rancher 3 makes an impressive addition to this family of titles.Īs a new trainer in the Monster Rancher universe, you'll get introduced to characters such as Fleria, the assistant (who for some reason refers to you as her apprentice, thanks to an in-game plot point), and your rival, Gadamon.
A very complex tamagotchi style program, you'll be called upon to create a monster and raise it from birth to death, using your monster as a gladiator style fighter along the way.
Third in the Monster Rancher series, this is the first time that Monster Rancher has seen the PS2 system, taking full advantage of the many advances that have been made over the original PlayStation.