The Baja 1000 is a yearly race that takes place along the Gulf of California in Mexico. Participants include trucks, buggies, motorcycles (the usual winner) and ATVs. The virtual iteration of the popular race allows players to hop around 95 different tracks across numerous sweltering locations. With upgradeable parts, over 100 destructible pieces of equipment per vehicle and the perils of the rough desert terrain to deal with, Baja from 2XL Games and THQ hopes to bring the depth and competitive spirit of Gran Turismo to the dirty and grimy world of Mexican rally racing.
As with any rally racing game, your main competition in Baja aren't just the opposing cars on the dirt-filled track. Instead, the course itself presents much of the challenge as you make your way across the rough terrain. Speed, while essential to victory, needs to be kept in check to maintain control. Hit one bump or take the wrong angle into a hairpin turn and you could very easily send your truck or buggy off the edge and plummeting hundreds of feet down.
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.
