Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

"The quality of this game is unbelievably NOT amazing"

At first, I didn't know what to think when I heard of this game. Most sources - warned us to stay away from this game giving it the 'Worst Game of all Time' award, which just steals it away from Superman 64, E.T., and Kabuki Warriors. Several years ahead of both of them and yet you can barely notice the graphical difference, the audio factor, and the gameplay that they have to offer. Better yet put it this way - the quality of the game makes it seem that Steller Stone made it in less than a day. Hell, even people with zero experience in video game design have a better chance at making a more quality game. Continuing our review, I shall take the time to explain to you why Big Rigs is the worst game you can ever glance on.

Once you pop old Big Rigs into your computer and finish the install, you come to notice that it may not be such a bad game as you have just come to notice. Of course, this game actually needs 1.0Ghz PP3 to run with a good 300MB of free harddrive space to fully complete the install (I asked myself the same question - why the hell does it need 300MBs). Now the main menu. A not-so-bad picture of a Truck being rammed by a Police car in an attempt to pull it off the road. But anyways, you begin the journey that is known as Big Rigs when you click on Race mode.

Once the game finishes its load (which may take several seconds even on the most powerful of PCs), you end up in a Truck right next to another truck in the most basic of basics environments ever. Head to head, engines blurring as the timer drops down from three to zero, you explode with bursts of speed like you are on a space shuttle on your way to the moon escaping the grasping of the supernova which once was our sun. But wait, isn't this a Big Rig carrying several hundreds and thousands of pounds of weight and yet it acts as if it is a Ferrari F50 with NOS? I have no idea why this is so, but it just keeps on getting more unprofessional. With no signs of your enemy, you slow down and turn around to look for that Extremely Super Easy A.I. - no signs. Well let's just back up to the finish line and -- wait. What's this? The A.I. doesn't even move!! It just stands - frozen or something. Okay then, let's try pushing it.. Oops, just went THROUGH the other truck. How can this be so? Didn't the developer not care to include a physics system? Or even much a sound system? Or even A.I.???!

Yes, that's right folks you get the SAME exact sound - nothing. No truck sounds, no horns, no tires or engines, - just 1 (ONE) song in a loop over and over and over again. WHAT IS THIS NIGHTMARE?!?! Alright, so let's get further down the game. Extremely long road, turn, extremely longer road, turn, even longer road, a U-turn (WOW), and back to the long roads. Wait, I actually see signs of civilization! A gas station, let's just stop there and refuel. Whoops, just went THROUGH the gas station. Hmmm... Let's keep going. Look a bridge! Let's pass this bridge because the road leads us past it. Oops, just fell THROUGH the bridge. What kind of EVIL game as this doesn't have ANY interactions, A.I., sound, fair graphics, or even a damn horn button? I'm getting out of this town! Let's just drive up this hill with the super speed this truck includes. Amazing, the truck can literally drive up the hill WITHOUT slowing down at least one mile per hour. And now we are getting further away from this course onto a WHITE BACKGROUND. There's literally no background, just a white color with the truck jumping getting ready to crash the game.

The Ups and Downs, A Follow-Up:

On the up side, I liked:
-There's really nothing much except that cool techno song.

On the down side, I disliked:
-EVERYTHING (to keep it short and simple):
-Poor graphics
-No Audio (except for the loop music)
-No A.I.
-No Physics System
-The reminder of the game

This game even retails at 10 bucks and it just came out days ago. There already have been several patches that do NOTHING except get the A.I. moving (really slow though). I wonder if the developer tried to break the Guinness World Records by creating this game. To sum it up, this game is bad. Stay away. Please, just stay away. I'm not even kidding me, the developers - Steller Stone really wanted this game to be bad. In all, I'd give it a 0 if I could, but I'll round it up to a 1 for that not so bad techno song I keep hearing.

Final Reviewed Score - 1/10 - HORRIBLE

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 01/23/04, Updated 01/23/04