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Big Rigs: over the road racing

LA RECENSIONE

"Miiiii there aren't games like they used to be..."

Agreed 70%. Despite everything, current masterpieces (or simply great games) are not lacking. But why should I make useless comparisons when I'm reviewing the worst game of all time (according to 99.9% of the world population)?

What's special about this game? Maybe the total absence of music, sound effects, etc... and seeing in the credits (just to find the lunatics who created this disaster and lynch them) that there was even a sound technician?

"Miiiii there aren't games like they used to be... those insanely difficult ones!"

Oh yes, Ecco the Dolphin teaches us! But if you want a racing game that can challenge you, Big Rigs is not the right choice; the difficulty stops at "normal" and let me immediately clarify that this is the least bad: once you've reached the start of the race (after a difficult choice from the vast array of trucks, among the only 4-5 available) your trucker opponent won't even try to move from the starting line! Basically, you can ALWAYS win!

Try driving around the map, like in GTA, and you'll discover another gem of this masterpiece: the total absence of gravity!
You can climb hills as if nothing happened until you fall into the gray hell! Not to mention the lack of solidity in any object like houses, trees, bridges, and even the opponents themselves!!!

You can't even relax with reverse gear! If moving forward the speed reaches about 80 km/h, in reverse you surpass the impossible, zooming over 200 km/h and speeding like crazy in the game world!

"Miiiii there aren't games like they used to be... where graphics didn't matter a mmmenghia!"

Unfortunately, the technical side of this game was awful then as it is now in 2003: not to mention the thousand bugs listed above, we also have the vehicle spotlights literally "detached" from the rest of the truck and the timer coming out of the textures; maybe they are trivialities, but in 2003 these things weren't seen so often in games (even though a bug always slipped through). The graphics themselves aren't bad but they don't further support a game that was DOA.

"BUT DUEMILLE THIS GAME IS NOT COMPLETE!" Don't worry, Wikipedian, if you're referring to the complete version, make peace with it: you don't improve crap with more crap. Peace.

Oh, the game is produced by Activision, you decide...