DIII, worth the time?

[Quark]

Quark, this is why I have such a bromance with you. I was even thinking of Big Rigs when I posted that, and considering "I bet someone will point that out or some other really really horrifically bad game that deserves the title." That said, do they actually SAY "worst game ever" in the review?

I remember reading a review for it and the reviewer pointing out that Big Rigs isn't even technically a game, since it has no real objectives or goal. It's more of a tech demo of a game that was never completed, that some A-hole decided to box up and sell to make cash off of uninformed purchasers. As for a software product that actually tries to be a GAME, Duke Nukem Forever has to be pretty high up there, I'd imagine.

They didn't say anything in the video review! The text review:

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.
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In theory, Big Rigs is supposed to be a racing game based on big trucks that speed through various US trucking routes in some kind of effort to deliver cargo before the competition gets there first--or else the truck gets busted by the law. At least, this is what the back of the game's box would have you believe. Let us make it very clear that these statements are all horrible, horrible lies. There is no coherent goal in Big Rigs. There is no cargo to be delivered. There are no police chases. In fact, there really isn't anything much in the game.

The basic idea in the actual game is that you pick one from four vaguely different trucks and then one from five vaguely different levels. You then compete against another truck in a simple checkpoint race. That's it. However, Big Rigs can't even get this basic concept right. The supposedly computer-controlled truck you're supposed to be racing against in the game never actually moves.

There's some more gems here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vid..._reception