With the release of the street/track-focused GRiD, the lamenting cries of rally race enthusiasts across the globe for the legacy of Colin McRea are almost deafening. Fortunately, 2XL Games (made up of former members of Rainbow Studios) and THQ seem prepared to step it up and pick up the slack for those who aren't afraid of getting a smudge of mud on their fenders. 2XL has lofty ambitions for Baja, and the team's stated goal is to produce a rally-racing game that will serve as the Gran Turismo of off-road speed demons, putting a heavy focus on technical driving prowess and ruthlessly realistic physics.
From what 2XL has shown so far, it appears that it's already made significant strides in separating the realism of Baja from past efforts like Motocross Madness and MX Unleashed.
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.
