Merely the fact that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing exists is a crime that the developers should be jailed for.
(-) cramping and uncomfortable controls; eye-straining visuals; riddled with endless technical problems; opponents have no AI; no music or sound effects; smothered in glitches and even crashes; why are you still reading this?
There's a certain amount of skill that comes out of making the worst video game ever. We've all played some really bad games, and many of us have over exaggerated exactly how bad they are. Because with most games out there, even the worst ones have some good qualities. It's easy to overlook them because the games are so terrible, but it's true. It takes a special kind of bad though to completely forget about that, and say that the game is just insidious and could not be enjoyed by anyone who isn't critically insane.
If the developers of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing were striving to make the worst game ever, they have achieve an overwhelming success and should be very proud of themselves.
To start things out, the back of the box promises something along the lines of intense cop chases. Okay, let me break it to you. There aren't any. The object of the game is just to race to assorted check points on very dull, uninspired levels. But the cops aren't the only thing missing from this abomination of a game. There's no artificial intelligence in the enemy racers, they just sit there and wait at the finish line. Therefore, there's no way to lose this game. And once you win after struggling not to fall asleep, you're greeted with the infamous "You're Winner" text after crossing the finish line. The fools who made this game apparently are not only incapable of producing a functional game, but they can't handle correct grammar either. Even worse, the game will also have a point of randomness when you're starting the race, the level will incompletely load and as a result you'll see the cars and any obstacles floating in empty space, and you'll see the winning text at the beginning because the weak processing actually thought you just passed the finishing line, even when you just started.
You have a choice of four indistinct trucks to choose from, and only one of them actually has the rig, making the title feel detached. In theory there are five tracks, but one of them will cause the game to crash. The game looks like the developer used as little effort as they could get away with. There are clipping errors everywhere, the numbers of the speedometer don't fit the box assigned for it, the lights on the trucks float away from them, and there's no collision detection. The truck will magically drive through buildings, bridges, anything. And if you get tired of the track all together, you can somehow climb all the way up the hills without any sort of slowdown, then drive off into the abyss. And topping off the abysmal physics, your truck will go slow with no sense of speed to speak of, that is when you're going forward. If you back up, the truck will experience an infinite magnitude of velocity and is literally uncontrollable. If you skid, then the camera will rotate at an multiplying rate until you'll have no way to tell what the hell is going on, then remove your hand off the keyboard, the car will stop at one second, like nothing ever happened.
When I installed this miserable piece of cow-dung to my otherwise virgin computer, there was no music or sound effects. The game was completely silent. But if you do get the music working, there's some very cheesy and irritating tune that will loop over and over again until you get the worst migraine you'll remember the rest of your life. Even controlling the game is a pain. There's no controller support to speak of, all you use are the directional pads on the keyboard. It can be straining on your fingers after a while (not that you would even want to play this piece of trash for that long), and the trucks are just very slow at turning yet despite how slow they move it still feels like they don't turn fast enough.
Of course the developers felt guilty and even attempted to patch this god-awful thing, but the opponents do move but they stop at the finish line, therefore you still win. Sure the head-ache inducing music and generic sound effects are all now at your disposal, and the crashing track has now been replaced with the same first track because the developers were too ignorant to just fix the damn thing. But all you really need to know is to stay away from this piece of hell. Sure, you'll get enjoyment out of laughing at the game's expense for a short while, and it can be fun to destroy the laws of physics for a short burst of time, but the novelty will fade soon enough and all you'll be left with is a pounding head and thirty minutes of your life that you could have spent better doing something else, like getting into a fight with some stranger across the street, or setting your computer on fire. Big Rigs Over the Road racing is terrible, but it isn't even terrible in a funny way, once you actually play it. Therefore it serves no purpose, and it needs to be forgotten and never played, looked at, or thought about again.