The more powerful the monster, the more powerful and graphically impressive its attacks are. Percentages that change next to your life meter tell you how likely it is that an attack will connect, while your Guts meter (your monster's stamina) affects how powerful your hits are. When battling in tournaments you can choose to control it or let it go on its own. There's also a versus mode where you can battle against a friend and his or her monsters. If you have a monster from the original that you'd like to use in Monster Rancher 2, there's a way to transfer it. There are games you can play with your monster for fun, such as a rock-paper-scissors wrestling game and a first-person arena-style mudball fight game.
In the original, you watched 2D animations while training and raising a monster-that's all in 3D now.
As you work through the ranks, you may be recruited for special cross-continental competitions or assignments. You can "catch" monsters when on training missions or expeditions, but you won't fight other trainers outside of official competitions. While in Pokemon, battle experience is important, in Monster Rancher, training and raising your monster carefully is more important if you expect to go far. Lose, and it's back to the Ranch for more training. Win, and you'll get some extra money and raise your fame level. You take your newly created (or acquired) monster back to the Ranch, where you can train it and condition it to fight in battles. Don't have a lot of CDs to use? You can select from a few monsters available free of charge at the market. Certain CDs yield special monsters-try out some of Tecmo's previous PlayStation games to get some interesting ones. In Monster Rancher 2, you create monsters out of anything on the CD format-music, games, anything. Tecmo's Monster Rancher, originally released in 1997, became a cult favorite, expanding on the virtual pet craze spawned by Bandai's Tamagotchi. PlayStation fans had a virtual pet RPG before many gamers in the U.S.
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