Review: The only fishing game where you can be both the master baiter and the masturbator.
Truly, I don’t know where to start with Big Bass Fishing. Typically, I like to start off a review with a little background about the game, and lead up to the first semblance of an opinion. But with Big Bass Fishing, it’s not even worth the effort. See, the game pure and simple…sucks. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty much an insult to sucky games. Granted, it’s a $10 dollar PSX game that’s aimed at the budget gamer, but the game still has to have some semblance of value to make it worth that much money – and BBF isn’t even worth the lucky penny you found in the parking lot of Wal-Mart (which is of course the intended audience here, the Wal-Mart gamer). There’s not a single redeeming factor to this game, besides the fact that it doesn’t infect your other, better PS2 and PS1 games with its awfulness. Honestly, I’d rather contract leprosy than ever play this game again – at least if I got leprosy my arms would fall off, so I’d have an excuse to not play it.
Big Bass Fishing does have a handful of game modes to try out, if you can handle the torture of the game. There’s an arcade mode where you have to catch 5 fish in 5 minutes, and if you do your time is extended and you can continue on. Plus there’s a challenge and completion modes where you go against other fishers in other lakes and rivers. Thankfully there is no multiplayer – I’m not sure if I’d want to admit that the game was in my possession to even my worst enemy, because they’d have something to make fun of me with. Any Mary Kate & Ashley game would probably be less offensive in your home.
It’s obvious everyone involved with BBF knew the game was going to be horrible, so they jumped up the T&A factor by letting you play as a scantily-clad female. That’s why the game box has a “Suggestive Themes” warning on the back, because of this half-naked polygon woman dishing out sexual innuendo and double entendre’s after a fish is caught (which happens all of maybe once every 1 million tries). Worse off the name of this female is Babe, so that adds even more to the ridiculousness of the idea. Then again, at least the developers tried to do something to entertain the fools who thought the game would be good.
