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Big Rigs Makes Play For Worst Game Of All Time
Thanks to GameSpot for its review of Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing for the PC, which it awards its worst score ever, 1.0/10, rhapsodizing: "Big Rigs is a game so astoundingly bad that it manages to transcend nearly every boundary put forth by some of gaming's absolute worst of the worst and easily makes it into that dubiously extraordinary category of being one of the most atrocious games ever published." The review goes on to explain some of that atrociousness, noting: "You can clip your truck right through every object on a race course in Big Rigs, from the biggest of houses and walls, right down to the smallest of lampposts. Furthermore, bridges evidently don't actually exist, despite the fact that you can see them - driving over any of them results in you sinking right through them." Although Big Rigs makes a valiant attempt, what videogame would you rate as the worst of all time?
the titles that are really the shittiest titles are titles that seem OK on the surface but only after playing for few hours(and hoping there will be some twist or the gameplay will get much more intresting soon) you realise that the game is just full of it and you've been totally wasting your time(like a certain pirating game from last year, fabulous on the outside but so shallow on the inside with a so small world that you can hardly believe it). it's the games that could have been so great with tiny changes(be it multiplayer coop or better configurability).
with titles like thsi 'big rigs' you'll know instantly that they suck. sure it sucks if you bought it blindly, but at least it's possible to spot games like these beforehand.
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"Although Big Rigs makes a valiant attempt, what videogame would you rate as the worst of all time?"
Well, to be worst, there has to be an expectation that the game will be good. Big Rigs, obviously, did not have great expectations. Games that were supposed to be great, but ended up being mediocre or bad are much more interesting.
Black and White was supposed to change gaming as we knew it and instead was just a crappy game. Gamespot ranking: 9.3. Looks like the reviewer bought into the hype.
Dungeon Siege was also supposed to be a great game! And it was, for the 20 minutes it took to exhaust 100% of the gameplay. Gamespot Ranking: 8.4. At least it was more interesting than B&W.
It is easy to complain about the Aquamans and Big Rigs of the world, but did anyone really expect them to be great games?
Vincent J. Murphy
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I don't know what the worst game out there is, but I'm willing to give Gamespot the worst layout award. Multiple reloads and still the content is way outside the browser window. You'd think they'd test that out...
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
That said, I actually want to play this now. Go figure. Maybe I can find it for $10 somewhere.
Also, Gamespot's little "review-at-a-glance" or whatever says: Stability: Minor Problems. Wtf?
To paraphrase one of the Gamespot editors, buying this game will only encourage this company to make more bad games. While you won't buy another crappy game from them after the first instance of screwing you over (Big Rigs), other people will...and it will only encourage them to keep this cycle of producing shit games as many times as possible to see how many suckers they can bring in.
Yes, it looks hilarious...but you'll get over that quick.
I have to disagree. Pong can be a fun game to play, as can Asteroids, Pole Position, Pitfall, and a bunch of other old games that have since been overshadowed by modernized replacements.