Monster Mash Motors: Rumble Bowl Rookies

The floodlights come up, Announcer Al hangs from the roof on his pole, and a whole grandstand of little cars starts honking. You hit the ramp, hold JUMP for extra height, flip twice and land wheels first as a brick wall bursts into chunky pieces behind you. Sixty seconds, three judges, one roaring Rumble Bowl.

Rumble City is a town where every vehicle is alive and nobody is ever hurt. You are a rookie of the Mash Motors Pit Crew, a monster truck you put together yourself, arriving the summer after the crew's first season. Big Stomp, Nitro, Mudslide, Smash, Bounce and Torque coach you and star in the shows. Diesel, the standing champion, sets the score to beat and races clean every time. Rusty runs the parts shop in his Junkyard, and Mayor Wheelsworth and little Pip fill the streets and the stands.

Roll onto a pad at the Bowl tunnel and run a Freestyle Jam, a Team Demolition, a Stunt Showdown or a three-lap Oval Race. On Easy the truck drives itself while you pick your lane, time your jumps and choose when to spend your power; older players can steer. Then the judge cars hold up their cards, and you earn Cheers to spend at Rusty's. Between shows you cruise Garage Row, wash off the mud and answer the Command Screen when a Crew Call comes in: a short co-op rescue where rookies pull a stuck school bus out of the mud with tow straps, on the beat, never by pushing.

The crew's powers keep the limits the books gave them, and choosing when to use one is the skill. Stomp twice, and your shocks glow for thirty seconds after each. Boost once, for ten seconds of blue flames. Spring twice as high, then lie flat as a pancake for five seconds. Scan only works while you hold still, but it marks the weak point red; when a friend Stomps that spot, the whole castle falls in sequence: the Smart Smash. And trucks never touch. They pass through each other with a puff of dust, so nobody can ram or spoil anyone's run.

The first release has one hub (Garage Row, Rookie Row, Rusty's Junkyard, the Mud Wash and the Speed Strip), the Rumble Bowl with eight set-ups across all four show formats, and the first Crew Call on Mud Mountain. Seven power kits, six rookie bodies, sixteen paints and 120 parts are there to unlock. Shows take one to six rookies and Crew Calls one to four, and crew trucks fill every empty place, so everything works solo. Canyon Ridge, Nitro Beach and Avalanche Alley are planned as the next Crew Calls.

Progress lives on your Rookie License: forty stamps across six chapters that follow the crew's season, at your own pace. Every Saturday the set-up of the week changes, four new parts arrive at Rusty's, and the Saturday Night Show brings fireworks, the crew's exhibition runs and Al's interview with the winner. Nothing decays and nothing is lost by missing a week. Finish the sixth chapter to win the Rookie Cup and hear the two words every truck in Rumble City wants to hear from Diesel.

Based on the Monster Mash Motors books: the living trucks, every power and its limit, the judged arena events and the rule that no truck ever hits another vehicle all come from them.

Monster Mash Motors: Rumble Bowl Rookies is a complete game design for Roblox. Development has not started.