View source for Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

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{{quote|'''''[[A Winner Is You|YOU'RE WINNER]] !'''''|Victory Screen, ''Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing''}}

''Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing'' is a [[Blatant Lies|brake jammin', CB talkin', convoy rollin']] "action" game for the PC, "developed" by Stellar Stone and released in 2003. The player controls one of four semi-trailer trucks on one of four (plus one, as another level was added in an update) tracks, wherein the objective is to drive through the checkpoints and get to the finish line.

[[From a Certain Point of View|Features never-before-seen freedom]], as the trucks can [[Obvious Beta|go up cliffs, through buildings, and into an endless void.]] [[Blatant Lies|The AI is infamously brutal and unrelenting, so a challenge is guaranteed.]]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1zWEhgrLs See it for yourself.]
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=== This game provides examples of: ===
*  [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Averted, as there is ''no AI at all''. If you download the patch, the opponent rig will move...and then stop short of the finish line because ''there is no code for what happens when you lose a race''. If anyone but the player happened to win, [[Obvious Beta|the game]] [[Nonstandard Game Over|would crash]].
* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Types 0, 1, and 5.
** 0: [[Net Jack]] apparently rewrote its code so it could award the game a zero.
** 1: GameSpot reviewer Alex Navarro commented that the only reason the game received a 1.0 out of 10 (the lowest score ever given by GameSpot) was because they couldn't go any lower.
{{quote| "We don't hand out zeroes, but maybe we should have for [[Big Rigs Over the Road Racing]]"}}
** 5: X-Games didn't have a zero, and they refused to give this game anything higher.
*  [[Covers Always Lie]]: Let's count the ones that are just on the ''front''! A truck with flames<ref> no vehicles move anywhere approaching this fast when travelling ''forwards''</ref> spouting from it ramming<ref>no collision detection</ref> a police car<ref>no police</ref> with the tagline "18 Wheels<ref>not all trucks have loads and are 18 wheelers</ref> Of Thunder." Even the concept of this game as carrying cargo is debatable, as all vehicles end where they start.
*  [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Well, you ARE a big rig, racing over the road. The back of the box, [[Blatant Lies|on the other hand...]]
*  [[Faster Than Light Travel]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVREUuuNIgg What you eventually achieve] if you continuously accelerate in reverse. And when you release the reverse key, you instantly stop.
*  [[Foregone Victory]]: You absolutely ''can't lose'', and even if you download the patch to make the opponent rig move it still stops short of the finish line. Even if it ''did'' somehow cross it, it still wouldn't win because '''there is no programmed failure state!''' Basically, it is literally impossible for any race to end in the player not winning.
**  [[It Got Better|It gets even better]]! Sometimes, the game's code has trouble distinguishing between starting and finishing, so you might ''win the race the moment you begin''.
** On the other hand, if you're playing Big Rigs Racing, you've kinda already lost ''before'' the race began...
*  [[Gravity Barrier]]: Averted, as ''gravity doesn't work''.
*  [[Insurmountable Waist Height Fence]]: Non-existent. There are ''no'' walls at all. To quote a fellow on [[YouTube]] describing it:
{{quote| "You don't drive into things. You drive through them. And by "things", I mean anything and everything."}}
**  The ''only'' thing in the game that you don't drive through is the ''ground''. Bridges do not count as ground.
**  They certainly weren't kidding when they titled it ''Over the Road Racing''.
**  You can easily surmount the one wall you can't drive through, MOUNTAINS. [[Beyond the Impossible|Without the slightest change in your speed]].
*  [[Invisible Wall]]: Also non-existent. You can pretty much just drive off the edge of the world and ''stay there''.
*  [[Ludicrous Speed]]: Just how fast can your truck go in reverse? It depends entirely on how long you're willing to keep your finger on the Down Arrow.
*  [[Obvious Beta|Obvious Pre-Alpha]]: And a buggy one at that. For the sake of perspective: programming-wise, this ..."game"... probably represents ''less than a day's'' work for an experienced game developer.
**  In a desperate further attempt to pass it off as a real game, they actually released a patch. It fixed the opponent trucks' immobility and a broken map... and nothing else. And the opponent trucks now stop before they reach the finish line.
*** And the "fixed" map only turned it into a mirror of the first map.
**  Resources from this game were used in a better, non-truck racing game, but it unsurprisingly sucked too.
*  [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The developers, releasing the thing.
*  [[The Wiki Rule]]: Yes, the game has its own [http://yourewinner.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page Fan Wiki] ! It's all just an [[Affectionate Parody]]...[[Poes Law|we hope]].<ref>Considering that they chose a Bidoof as their logo, it (fortunately) most probably is.</ref>
*  [[Unwinnable]]: Inverted. It's impossible to lose in this game. See [[Artificial Stupidity]] and [[Foregone Victory]], above.
*  [[A Winner Is You]]: The three-handled "YOU'RE WINNER !" trophy has become [[Memetic Mutation|more emblematic of the game than anything else]].

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