What is Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training?

If, like us, you adored the movie Monsters, Inc., you might feel a bit let down when you play Scream Team Training. The movie set a high bar with its beautiful graphics and engaging story line, and this kiddie game for the five-and-up crowd just can’t compete. That said, it’s still a fairly solid game for young ones.

You play one of six monsters-in-training, performing various odd jobs around the Monsters, Inc. factory. Jobs include parking cars in spaces of the right color and size (yawn), assembling food orders for your monster cohorts (not quite fun but strangely addictive), and babysitting monsters. One of the better activities involves matching countries to their spoken languages — for instance, when you hearthe word “merci,” you should click the French flag.

Most activities do not reflect the story line of the namesake movie although several do. For example, in one game you search for the door behind which the little girl Boo is hiding; in another, your job is to file papers in the correct order, which doesn’t have much to do with the movie.

And that’s the problem — the game is only loosely based on the film, and your favorite characters just make cameo appearances.

As if Steve Jobs had some kind of influence on the matter (oh, wait a minute), the game runs well in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. And to be fair, a number of the games are fun. They’re just not as mind-bogglingly cool as we hoped.

Lu, Cathy. (March 2002). Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training. MacAddict. (pg. 57).

Download Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver