Professor Frink

I was browsing Gamespot's lowest-rated titles as a goof, and stumbled on this one:

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

The review itself is pretty funny, but scroll to the bottom and stream the video review. Classic.

DARTH GAMER

How does something like this make it out of the studio?

TheMadMonk

I saw them review this on X-play . It has no sound whatsoever, you can easily drive off the map, right through mountains, bridges, etc; there is no actual racing involved; you start off next to another semi truck, but when the race starts, he just sits there the whole time.

They gave it 0 out of 5

Save Ferris

So... how much do you think the company invested in making this game and will they get their money back (or profit)?

I bet they make some good money on this game. Eventually it will end up in those $10 bins at compusa/walmart and people will buy it based on the cover art and maybe they'll quote gamespot like: "....Amazing..."--gamespot reviewer

Jeraden

That video review had me in tears.

Coral

I've saw that a while back - and it looks amazingly bad.

It obviously wasn't even close to finished when they released it. It's like they ran out of money and decided to try to get back as much money as possible.

The video review on the gamespot site is quite funny to watch. It gives you a good indication just how crappy this release was.

Outlaw

You're Winner!

This game is old and has been posted before, but hilarious that this game even came out. poor devs.

Joe Molotov

The hopes and dreams of Mother Russia were riding on this one.

The Bus

http://www.stellarstone.com/

Gizmo

What a fancy website!

Trigger

vid review = funny

nickdawgy

The review was funny but that reviewer was trying too hard. He wasn't funny at all.

Breakfast with Girls

I couldn't actually get to these pages by clicking on the links... I had to look at the HTML.

http://www.stellarstone.com/company.html

COMPANY
Stellar Stone Group is a full-service game development outsourcing company that manages the creative pool of designers, artists, programmers and Internet technologies specialists. Our company was founded in late 2000 to provide development services and technology licensing to interactive entertainment industry.

Since that date we not only completed number of projects for clients such as BMG Records, Sony Pictures, Heineken/Amstel, Microsoft but also developed massive game engine technology that allow us to cut expenses associated with game development up to 5 times.

MISSION
We strive is to provide our clients with best of gaming technologies and cut their development expenses, allowing them to concentrate on product rather than on technology hustles of development. We are capable of doing large scale sophisticated technological projects, utilizing the best technologies and guarantee customer satisfaction.

We combine stong management ( with our Santa Monica, CA based headquarters ) with superb creative, yet non expensive development teams in Russia. This allows our clients to cut development expenses 3-5 times comparing to cost of local European or US development team or employees. At same time we provide instant feedback to our clients, thanks to our management offices in Los Angeles and London.

Please check our Services to get more information on our offerings, standarts and procedures.

ADVANTAGE
The highest technical caliber of Stellar Stone developers coupled with low offshore Russia-based engineering costs gives us sustainable competitive edge to employ more and higher quality engineers than a typical US company can afford, staff up projects faster, put more developers on a project for a better gameplay value and graphics visuals. For our customers that transfers into richier product feature set at the same price point.

Here's their services:
http://www.stellarstone.com/services.html

Outlaw

I dare someone here to commission a game from them (and give them a 2 week deadline), it can't be that much.

ChrisHicks

you guys are crazy. this looks like the greatest game ever. the main thing I hate about driving games is the fact that stuff usually gets in my way and causes me unneccessary stress by having to back up and try again. this company heard my cries of pain and answered my prayers. I am heading to best buy 1st thing in the morning.

glassdragon

what the hell did they just say there?

warcp

They have a downloadable patch for the game. All is well.

nickdawgy

The "review" of the patch says it did little to correct the issues.

darkside

The patch would have to be at least 4 gigs to fix all those issues.

msdmoney

If I remember right the opponent acctually moves after the patch from what I read.

They are in Santa Monica, I would love to do a drive by if anyone sees the address.

Shilex

Anyone read the game FAQ at GameSpot? It's freakin' hilarious!

http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/dosw...e/big_rigs.txt

Tommy Ceez

Like reading bad movie reviews, I always read gamespots lowest rated games...failure is sooo funny.

lotsofdvds