
Monster Rancher 2 is probably the most I ever enjoyed a pet simulation kind of game. Such a cool idea with the CDs! I'm pretty sure the same CD will always produce the same monster, though it is random what that monster will be. Otherwise you could just continually pop in the same CD to get different monsters, which would take away a lot of the fun. And I'm pretty sure the game series came before the anime. Definitely a cool series though. I don't think there have been any new entries in a while, which is a shame, but I'm not sure how they'd work the monster generation anymore. Unless the game was on a big home console, they couldn't use disks. Hopefully it'll make a comeback some day.