Sorry gang, but I've got you all beat.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/index.html?tag=result;title;0]
I got this game for free. I would never have paid for it since I'd already heard the stories, and I wanted to play it for a little while just to see if it was as awful as everyone said.
It was.
The number of things wrong with this game is unbelievable. Let me list a tiny fraction of them.
1. Let's start with the "story." The back of the box would have you believe that the game involves cross-country chases to deliver cargo before you get busted by the law. Um, no, there's no cargo to deliver, no high-speed chases. What there is is a two-truck race, in which you choose from one of four vaguely different trucks on one of five vaguely different courses, and race.
2. But it doesn't even get THAT right. The so-called "competition" is a wash-out, because the AI truck you are allegedly competing against DOES NOT MOVE, it just sits there! It literally does not move no matter what. Even better, the game company had the nerve to release a patch allegedly fixing it, and yes it does move, but it always stops just before the finish line. With or without the AI, you simply could not lose even if you tried (and believe me, I tried).
3. The physics are atrocious. You accelerate too fast to be even remotely realistic, and stop on a dime the instant you let go of the keyboard, and there is no such thing as terrain issues, you can go over the entire environment, driving along nearly vertical cliff-faces without seeing even the slightest change.
4. To say that this game has bugs would be like saying that Adolf Hitler needed to work on his interpersonal skills. There is NO TERMINAL VELOCITY IN REVERSE, you can go the speed of light and much higher in reverse. Yes, the game designers literally forgot to enter a number in the "top reverse speed" section when they programmed the game.
5. The controls, however, would only be an issue if you needed to avoid running into obstacles. Don't worry, that is not a problem in this game, because you go right through them. You can clip right through every environmental piece on the landscape, from lampposts to buildings to the police cars that you're supposed to be avoiding. And then comes the piéce de resistánce, where you can actually drive right through the boundaries of the levels and enter grayspace, where you can hang out for as long as you'd like without the game even noticing.
6. The graphics are almost as bad as the game. The environments are horrid, the trucks all look exactly alike, and there are literally no sound effects, the only sound is the annoying techno-loop tracks they play over each track.
7. By the way, one of the five race courses didn't even work, when I selected it the game quit and returned me to the desktop.
This game is so bad that mere insults could not describe it. This game is so bad that even Yahtzee would never be able to give it the flaming it deserves, it would simply be beyond even his words. This game is so bad that it's become a favorite pasttime of gamespot.com trolls to vote it a "10" as a sick prank. It's so bad, I was laughing during the 10 minutes I spent playing it. This game is worse than every other game on this list put together. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Have a nice day!
