Closing Comments
Baja: Edge of Control certainly lives up to its subtitle. At times, it's an edge-of your seat experience that gives you a sense of accomplishment for sliding across the finish line in one piece. Other times, it's a confounding mix of erratic handling, insane difficulty and drab repetition. It's at once laudably ambitious and frustratingly inaccessible. If you can get over the steep learning curve and deep into Baja, you'll be rewarded for your efforts. Overall, only the hardest of the hardcore off-road racing sim crowd are likely to truly embrace Baja.
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5.5 Presentation
Menus are sluggish, load times are long and tutorials are thin. Very little character throughout.
2.0 Graphics
Dude, where's my anti-aliasing? Cars are pixellated and the framerate is all over the place. This does not look like a PS3 game.
7.0 Sound
Vehicles and effects sound good, but the odd soundtrack alternates between Spanish guitar and boring angst-rock.
6.0 Gameplay
learning curve is rough, and there are problems with hit detection and career pacing. Once you get the hang of it, endurance races can be fun.
7.5 Lasting Appeal
The difficulty level and length of the career ensures that you'll be chipping away at Baja for a while. And the multiplayer is a sure draw.
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.
LoL again.