The third variant of the Monster is a vehicle featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Design[]
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Monster is depicted as a generic two-door pickup truck that appear to be a "Stage Three" monster truck, with a tubular chassis, four-link suspension and nitrogen gas shocks. However, it also appears to have a real metal body, whereas "Stage Three" monster trucks use fiberglass replica bodies. The vehicle always has a black cover on the bed, single red tail lights and a red chassis with the tubular frames exposed.
The vehicle is based on the Yosemite and features widened wheel arches and a permanent roof-mounted spoiler. It is only seen in a custom blue, red and white paintwork with a checkered roof design (with the files indicating it spawning in a white color), and it can have four optional roof-mounted lights.
The vehicle uses large-profile tires with wide track and a detailed tread pattern.
Performance[]
The overall performance of any variant of the Monster depends on where the vehicle is driven. Overall, the Monster is more suited for off-road driving, and performance stats between all variants of the Monster are identical.
Generally, its acceleration and top speed are only average, making the vehicle unsuitable for high-speed driving. However, the vehicle compensates with good handling and off-road capabilities, being able to drive up steep terrain and traverse bumpy obstacles. In place of a handbrake turn, the Monster features a four-wheel steering "mode", where the rear tires will also turn alongside the front ones, reducing its turning radius. In addition, the Monster, much like the Dumper, is capable of running over smaller vehicles and subjecting them to a moderate rate of damage; this ability can, however, risk flipping the Monster.
Whilst the vehicle is very stable while upright, the vehicle can rest sideways or upside down if it flips from a crash or has tumbled down very rough terrain, due to its evenly heavy design. With usage on urban roads, the vehicle's larger size increases the susceptibility of the player hitting vehicles and street furniture.
The vehicle uses a petrol engine with a 5-speed gearbox and an all-wheel-drive layout, and it uses a distinctively loud engine sound, likely to denote its immense power delivered to the large wheels.
Overview[]
| Acceleration (0-60 mph in Seconds) |
Top Speed (mph / kmh) |
Gears | Engine | Drivetrain (FWD / RWD / AWD) |
Mass (kg / lbs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | 68 / 110 | 5 | Petrol | AWD | 5000 / 11023 |
| N/A | N/A | 5 | N/A | AWD | Cannot be observed |
Gallery[]
Locations[]
- Spawns in front of Michelle's Auto Repair if dating Michelle Cannes. The player must have 50% relationship with her before she gives them the keys. (The player can use a Tow Truck to tow the Monsterb to a garage that can accommodate its size and leave it in there. After the door to the garage closes, open it back up and the Monster is now unlocked.)
Notable Owners[]
Radio Stations[]
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Monster (monsterb) plays Radio X.
Trivia[]
- The Monster's tires cannot be shot off like real monster trucks. They probably have air in them to provide normal tire function, but the tires are likely constructed of thick rubber, enough to be drivable without air in them.
- The doors of the second and third variants cannot be damaged, unlike the first variant.
- If the player places the monster's front wheel on a car's engine, the car might go flying up or flip over, sometimes the car might even get stuck in the ground and grow extremely large, doing this may result in the monster flipping over from the car though.
- Due to the front end being non-damageable, there is nothing modeled under the hood. Even despite the clear seams for the hood, they cannot be opened nor damaged in any way.
- Like the Dumper, the Monster has the ability to drive over cars rather than into them. They are the only two vehicles in the game capable of doing so.
- On a related note, the Monster is the third largest drivable land vehicle in the game.
- If hydraulics were to be installed on the Monster Truck, then the wheels would be stuck up in the air. And if the Monster was to drive like this at a high speed then enter the water, the truck would drive over the water.
- Along with the Rhino, the Monster is one of the few vehicles in the game that uses a steering mode, which replaces the usual handbrake.
- The third variant of the Monster is listed with an additional extra located on the spoiler, alongside the roof-mounted lights. However, it seems to only be a lower panel with the shadow on the inner portion of the spoiler. Its purpose is unknown and is likely a bug/glitch.
- Although the Monster has a complete texture for its black cover on the bed, a noticeable fraction (~30%) of this goes unused, and the right side of the cover simply mirrors the left one.
See Also[]
- Monster Bug - Grand Theft Auto equivalent.
- Big Bug - Grand Theft Auto 2 equivalent.
- The Liberator and Marshall - Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online equivalents.
- Apocalypse, Future Shock, and Nightmare Sasquatch - Grand Theft Auto Online equivalents added in the Arena War Update.