Big Mutha Truckers

by THQ

Product Features

• xbox
• big mutha truckers
• racing game

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008XKZF
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 23, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,059 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

racing game big mutha truckers for microsoft xbox

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not great but fun, June 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Big Mutha Truckers (Video Game)

It's not a great game but it's pretty fun. I would have prefered it been more realistic, but what the heck. You drive a semi-truck from town to town, picking up loads, and delivering them to other towns. You get chalanged to races from other truckers. The goal is to make the most money in a 60 day period. There are some other goals in the game, but this is your main deal.
I don't like that you can just run rampant down the highway without any penalties from the law. You can run cars off the road, hit pedestrians, drive on the wrong side of the road,and all with a police car pasing by, you can even hit a police car and nothing happens. There are police chases, but I don't know what sets them off, it's not reckless driving. Cars and motercycles can pass back and forth under your trailer; moter cycles can hit your your truck and trailer and knock it around. The truck is difficult to keep in the lanes, it fishtails all over.
All that realism lacking, I still have fun playing this game. Until they come out with a "Smokey And The Bandit" game(which done right would be pretty cool), this is the only trucking game I know of for the Xbox. If your expectations aren't too high you can have a lot of fun playing this and it {is a good value}. I've definately spent more on worse games. You may want to rent it first. It wasnt' meant to be realistic, it was just meant to be fun.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't TOTALLY blow chunks but..., September 22, 2003

By 

James J. Gerbino (Pensacola, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Mutha Truckers (Video Game)

The real tragedy of BMT is that the concept is so appealling. The romance of the road, big rigs, rednecks etc... The graphics are smooth and good looking. And they spent tons of time building a custom soundtrack for several ingame radio stations ala Grand Theft Auto.

BUT... the thing is this. The trucks are totally impossible to control and so unrealistic that it spoils the rest of the game. Driving an 18 wheeler on the highways is the heart of the game. And they got it wrong. Way wrong. I don't mean 'it isn't a driving SIMulation', I mean it isn't like driving anything on Earth. I have nearly a million over the road miles logged in real Peterbilts, Freightliners and Internationals. These rigs look reasonably right, but the driving dynamics are a joke.

The trailer tandems (tandem mounted axles) slide back and forth as though you have teflon tires and lane control is totally impossible.

As for the 'economics'... one full tank of diesel fuel (they call is 'GAS' in the game) costs $33,000! I'm glad this is only a game or I'd be out of business in a heartbeat. The abstract system works, but the driving is so whacked out that you won't be able to tolerate the game long enough to find out.

The GameCube version plays and looks almost identically. And as badly. So there is STILL no trucking game that is worthwhile. Not Hard Trucking for PC, not the Freightliner Century in Midtown Madness, and not even the fun arcade conversion of Sega's 18 Wheeler.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a lot more thinking involved than i expected, August 11, 2005

By 

abe "starman" (wva) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Big Mutha Truckers (Video Game)

this game starts with a real ugly old redneck chick errrrrrrr i mean your momma telling you that you and your siblings must compete for 2 months in the trucking buisness to win the family buisness.so,you travel about buying and selling whatever you are hauling.its deeply ingrained in rednecky type stuff.im just trying to say i think these people couldve used a little more chlorine in thier gene pool.if you dont want to spend all your money on gas and repairs,i suggest cheating.but,even a ten million dollar headstart wont guarantee victory!belive me i tried.your bros and sis are pros.so ask around.the soundtrack is funny the first few thousand times,but is ultimately boring and repetitive once youve heard it.i just turn the sound down and crank some outlaw country like johnny cash,david allen coe or merle haggard.the bikers are your enemy.they are forever messing with you,especialy if you have beer.you can even customize your truck with a painting option.in there ,any part you leave unpainted will be the color of your trailer.ie:i painted a naked white chick on a brown trailer.so her ethnicity was altered by the time i saw it.its ok,you can change it all you want.its fun but there are better games out there.i imagine worse ones too.