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  • June 29, 2010 @ 11:41 am

    The Most Broken Game of All Time

    If you haven’t seen this before – man, you’re missing out!  This is Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing, and features the following ground-breaking features:

    • There is no collision detection with anything other than the ground. Bridges are simply a mirage. You can also drive off the end of the map. Physics? Pah, take that Newton!
    • The box and gameplay description of the game advertise that the player must escape from the police. Lucky for you, there are actually no police in the game. The law is a lie. In fact, there is pretty much zero plot to the game whatsoever.
    • In the originally released version, enemy trucks had no AI and, as such, never left the starting position. Praise be that a patch was eventually released which gave life to these lumbering beasts. The patch also gave the great privilege of adding sound effects to the game.
    • Text on the player’s HUD doesn’t fit properly.
    • The game fails to distinguish between the player starting or finishing when crossing the line, so you may receive a “YOU’RE WINNER” message within a second of starting the game. Rewarding feedback leads to high levels of player engagement, right?

    Despite all this, the game still sold 20,000 copies. In fairness, from watching the video, it looks pretty damn entertaining.

    Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

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    1 Comment »

    1. Posted by Chris

      August 19, 2010 @ 7:29 pm

      You failed to notice reversing actually allows you to reach an infinite speed ;)

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