Disney/Pixar's Monsters Inc. Scream Team Training

Scream Team Training is a typical Disney film tie-in game, which is to say that it offers a range of simple arcade games based on scenes from the movie in question. With a heavy skew toward fun rather than educational value, these activities challenge kids to sort mailroom packages, chase a rampaging human child through endless closet doors, practice frightening a training robo-kid, and attempt to mollify the young offspring of the company's googly-eyed workforce. Each game has thirty levels whose difficulty increases in extremely tiny increments--great for children who might be inclined to give up as soon as the going gets too tough, but perhaps a little dull for those who want to speed ahead to a harder level of play.

Within its monster-based context, the game has all the architecture of a working-class job site, like timecards, employee lockers, and a cafeteria. Players are "trainees," and they must succeed at the mailroom activity before earning key cards that will give them access to other games. In that sense, it is an interesting attempt to show kids the many facets of the mysterious phenomenon called work that claims so many parents on a daily basis. The use of the work-site interface also provides a pleasing range of activities, too--some faintly realistic, some thoroughly fantastic. This makes Scream Team Training a great choice for Monsters, Inc. fans in particular or for any young arcade-game buff who enjoys a little zaniness. (Ages 5 and older) --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description
What do monsters do all day? Kids can find out in Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team Training, a delightful game developed for kids ages 4 and older. Kids play games with their favorite monsters from Monsters, Inc., as well as the company's newest employee. The goal is to win the title of Top Scarer. Ten challenging activities, each hosted by a different monster, feature 30 different game levels, for 300 levels in all. Join the exciting day-to-day activities at Monsters, Inc. Kids can even strive to become Employee of the Day, Month, or Year.

To become the best employee, though, you'll have to feed hungry monsters, collect screams, pacify baby monsters, train to be a Top Scarer, and more. Colorful environments include the mailroom, lunchroom, day-care center, parking lot, simulation room, and the scream collection and canister storage areas at Monsters, Inc. Play with favorites Sulley, Mike, Roz, and the rest of the Monsters, Inc. gang in a series of monstrously fun activities designed to challenge children and leave them screaming with laughter!

My favorite is the flag-map game...its a hoot.

Of all the MONSTERS games out there....this is the one to buy -

Characters looks great - voices are great - its fun

so what are you doing??....stop reading this and BUY IT!


Fun game, good replay value...   November 24, 2001
SuperOdie34 (Salisbury, MD United States)
39 out of 41 found this review helpful

Disney at least has a good idea behind "Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training": an activity center including ten different games each with 30 levels of gameplay. The result is a fun and replay freindly game with only a few problems.

Even though there are 10 games, they are very different from each other. While many of them are somewhat repeatitive, most of them are quite fun, from a game in "The Lunch Room", to the "Tetrus"-style "Cannister Storage".

The best game in "Scream Team Training" is the "Door Vault". Players must help Sully jump across the many rows of swinging doors to rescue Boo! Entering doors will move Sully to another row, but he must watch out for that sneaky Randall Boggs. He'll also need to avoid falling "Toxic" socks, but if one of these gets on Randall, he can rush to the emergencey button to call the CDA!

Another great game is one that takes place in a parking lot. Players must carefully park cars in open spaces before time runs out. Some cars, such as ones for disabled monsters, need to go in special spaces, and parking a car in the red zone at the wrong time could cause serious trouble.

The other games are a mixed bag. While the "Day Care center" game is never as good as some of the others, "Paperwork" is surprisingly engaging, with players racing to staple colored paper in the correct order in a race against the clock!

On the whole, "Scream Team Training" is a fun game. After all, with 300 levels, it'll take a long time for this game to go back on the shelf.


Monsters Inc. On Computer   November 6, 2001
A 9-year old software user (Danvillie, VA USA)
7 out of 41 found this review helpful

Monsters Inc. was a great movie.Disney and Pixiar always have made super motion pictures.Then one day I thought of getting this C.D.Now the monsters will be right in my computer!