2 3 Although the game's packaging states the objective as racing over US truck routes to be the first to deliver cargo and avoid arrest by the police, neither cargo nor law enforcement is featured in the game.Now Playing: Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing Video ReviewBig Rigs' first and most grievous issue lies in its gameplay. Your opponent is there at the beginning, but he never moves.Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a racing video game. Big Rigs claims to be a racing game but you dont race anybody. Remember Superman 64, this game makes that one look like Half-Life 2. Big Rigs is so bad I cant even call it a game.
There are no police chases. There is no cargo to be delivered. There is no coherent goal in Big Rigs. Let us make it very clear that these statements are all horrible, horrible lies. At least, this is what the back of the game's box would have you believe.
Big Rigs' controls essentially involve hitting the arrow keys of the keyboard in the desired direction and nothing more. Even if this were the case, the game still wouldn't be worth playing in the slightest. So unless you especially like seeing a winning-screen over and over again that reads "You're Winner!", there is absolutely no point in playing Big Rigs.But let's assume for a moment that the AI trucks actually worked, and you could get a race going. You win every single time.
You see, 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. You accelerate much too quickly to even be minutely realistic (especially when going in reverse, which lets you go from around 0 to 60mph in about five seconds, continue accelerating infinitely faster, and stop on a dime the second you let up on the keyboard), you can travel over the most rugged of terrain without any problems (including nearly vertical mountains), and you can turn in ways that cause you to jerk around in some pretty ridiculous manners.Of course, the controls would only matter if you actually had to worry about running into things or crashing your truck, which, actually, is a nonissue. There are no physics here. Your truck also handles pretty horribly.
The four different environments all look bad, too, what with their incredibly nasty-looking textures, their ugly and meaningless set pieces, and their aforementioned clipping problems. The truck models are amazingly terrible, with incredibly archaic-looking designs and brake lights that actually float off of the truck models. Big Rigs is easily one of the worst-looking PC games released in years. We cannot stress this enough.The graphical problems don't stop there, either. Considering the fact that you can drive over these tall, seemingly insurmountable mountains (at least, insurmountable for an actual diesel-powered truck), and there are no level boundaries, eventually you can just drive off into literal nothingness and can hang out there as long as you please.Please do not play this game. It is also quite possible to simply drive right off of the literal end of a level when playing.
It really makes you wonder if the company that put out this dreck even took so much as a half minute to glance at the game that it was releasing. It is so disturbingly bad that even its budget price tag seems like a slap in the face. The only sounds that present themselves at all are a few unpleasant, looping techno tracks, and on a midrange PC, we couldn't even get them to play.Just how bad is Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing? It's as bad as your mind will allow you to comprehend. There are literally no sound effects in Big Rigs. As for the game's sound design, there isn't any. When trying to load the fifth environment, the game simply quit and returned us to the desktop on all of the computers that we tried.
The fact is, even if you tried, you couldn't play Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing the way it was seemingly intended to be played, and even if you could, you wouldn't want to.
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