Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

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Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Studio Stellar Stone
Publisher GameMill Publishing
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 North AmericaNorth America November 20, 2003
platform Microsoft Windows
genre Racing game
Game mode Single player
control Mouse & keyboard
language English
Age rating
USK released from 6

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a racing game developed by the California-based development studio Stellar Stone and published in North America by GameMill Publishing exclusively for Microsoft Windows on November 20, 2003.

Many critics consider it to be one of the worst computer games ever published.

On August 29, 2019, a Twitter account called BigRigsOfficial announced a remaster of the game for PC for May 2020, which was probably a joke.

Gameplay

Pre-alpha

You can choose between 4 different trucks and playing cards in the game . While there is a fifth game card, selecting it will crash the game. This fifth card is called "Forgotten Road 1", the numbering being misleading due to the fact that there is no other route called "Forgotten Road". The aim of the game is to cross the finish line in front of the computer opponent . It is impossible to lose in the game because the computer is not running. In addition, the player can drive through many objects. If you won a race, you were won with the misspelled sentence "You're winner!" rewarded. Many increases can be raised without any resistance by gravity, and there is no limit to the playing card; the player can drive into nowhere indefinitely. There are no sound effects. On some parts of the tracks that are covered with water, the player can drive as if it were asphalt. You also drive backwards faster than forwards and you can accelerate almost without braking. If you brake the truck, it stops abruptly without any delay.

After the patch

On January 15, 2004, Stellar Stone released a patch for the game. After the patch, the computer will drive to the finish line but then stop abruptly, making it impossible to lose the game. There are also sound effects now. The non-functioning fifth route was replaced by "Devil's Passage 2", a mirrored version of the first route ("Devil's Passage 1"). The phrase "You're winner!" was won by "You win!" replaced.

Later copies of the game were shipped with the patch by default.

development

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was developed in Ukraine, commissioned by the Californian development studio Stellar Stone. The game was developed offshore , allowing the company to produce the game at a relatively low cost of around $ 15,000, compared to three to five times the cost if it had worked with other developers based in Europe or the US.

Big Rigs is based on Eternity, a proprietary game engine developed by Sergey Titov of TS Group Entertainment, which Stellar Stone licensed in return for "large chunk of the company". According to an interview with Titov on yourewinner.com, a big rigs fansite, the company "wanted to do things cheap and wasn't willing to pay even $ 200-300,000" to develop its own game engine (the company “want [ed] to do things cheap and [was] not willing to pay even 200-300 [thousand US dollars]”). Titov is recognized as a producer and co-programmer in the game, but claims in an interview that he “didn't have much input to design and development or the power to prevent [ big rigs ] from being released” (“didn't have much design and development input or any power to stop [ Big Rigs ] from being released ”).

Big Rigs was originally supposed to come with Midnight Race Club: Supercharged! will be released as a single title, but instead GameMill decided to split the project into two games at the start of production. Both games were released in the pre-alpha phase. The reason for the split is unknown, with Titov speculating that the idea was about increasing sales.

reception

reviews
publication Rating
Metacritic 8/100
GameSpot 1/10
Gamezone 0.7%

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is considered by many critics to be the worst computer game ever published. On the rating website Metacritic , the game has - based on five ratings - a Metascore of 8 out of a total of 100 possible points. The US online magazine GameSpot rated the game with one of 10 points. The German-language computer game magazine Gamezone gave the game an overall rating of 0.7% for fun. It is (as of: 2019) the worst rated game on all three sides. The misspelled phrase "You're winner!", Which appears on the screen when you win a race, became famous and posted as a meme on many websites . The game was also tested by the American web video producer and game critic James Rolfe, aka " Angry Video Game Nerd ", and panned as one of the worst games he has ever played.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c John Papadopoulos: The worst PC racing game ever made, Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing, gets a remaster in 2020. In: DSOGaming. August 29, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing Review. In: GameSpot. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing patch. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b c d patch. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e yourewinner.com - Q and A with Sergey Titov. February 1, 2014, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The 25 worst games according to Metacritic rating. November 12, 2018, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ ShadowAngel: Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing - Perhaps the worst game ever - Reader's review by ShadowAngel. In: Gamezone. April 7, 2007, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ James Rofle: Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing (PC) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN). In: YouTube . March 19, 2014, accessed March 23, 2020 .