GameSpy writes: "At this week's THQ Gamers Day event, we got to see the first game from 2XL Studios, Baja. This is an off-road racer that focuses on huge, open racing areas. The founders of 2XL formerly ran Rainbow Studios, which does the MX vs. ATV series for THQ, so Baja's focus on letting cars of multiple classes race against each other -- in the dirt -- wasn't a huge surprise. Its use of licenses and realistic tuning options were nice surprises, though, as well as the variety of events, though we didn't leave the event particularly wowed by its graphical punch.
Baja lets you race cars ranging from sprightly go-karts all the way up to multi-million dollar trophy trucks through the desert. Buggies and 4x4s fill out the middle classes, with licensed Baja racing teams and licensed parts to customize your vehicles with. In short, there's just as much variety of metal and rubber as you'd expect to see at the Baja 1000."
Spiffy:
-Huge race areas
-Wide variety of vehicles
-Long race
-Dollar-value damage modeling
Iffy:
-Visuals take the hit for scale
-Somewhat saturated genre
Baja Edge of Control coming digitally to Xbox One, PS4.
It’s no secret that the Xbox 360’s lifespan is coming to an end, meaning we’ve got an extensive library of games to sort through and possibly trade-in to GameStop or EBGames. Because of this, used Xbox 360 games are incredibly cheap, and a lot of people might be spending this summer adding those last few games to their collections.
Time to round up the best racing titles in a Top 10 run down.
There are games with niche followings, and then there are games that absolutely nobody played. Baja: Edge of Control is one of those games.
Lost in the skyrocketing popularity of Call of Duty and Halo, Baja: Edge of Control quietly landed on store shelves in late 2008, a month before the two major shooting franchises released their yearly variations. And it sat there. After six months, those copies were moved to the bargain bin, and eventually, GameStop. Today, over five years after release, online leaderboards struggle to show more than ten or eleven people with registered lap times at most tracks. Online itself was a ghost town since launch day. People simply didn’t buy this game.
And that’s a shame, because Baja: Edge of Control is a title that any motorsports fan shouldn’t hesitate to add to their collection.
