10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

If you can think of it, you can probably do it in Big Rigs as long as “it” contains driving through every obstacle in the game unharmed, accelerating up totally vertical cliff-faces without slowing down and even sinking into the ground. For whatever reason, Game Mill appears to have decided that pre-alpha was good enough for this 2003 PC racing title and sent it out into the world to find its own way.

What it found was anger, befuddlement and the title of “one of the worst games of all time”. Still, many gamers were so stunned by the thing that they couldn’t help but love it.

Considering your one opponent doesn’t leave the start line, it’s hard to play Big Rigs as intended even when trying to ignore the glitches. Thus, the only fun to be had is driving through buildings, falling through bridges and speeding over mountainsides.

If there was ever a crown made for “so bad it’s good” then Big Rig deserves that, the throne and the sceptre. You can’t help but feel sorry for the thing, rushed out of the door before it was done; scared, confused and ugly. I almost feel bad for calling it “terrible”, as what we have barely constitutes a game.

Whatever you call it, you absolutely need to experience Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing at least once.