Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a 2003 racing video game developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing. The player controls a semi-trailer truck (a "big rig") and races a overwhelmingly fast opponent through checkpoints on US truck routes. Stellar Stone, based in California, outsourced the game's development to Heaven, and the game was released on November 20, 2003. Due to a multitude of awesomeness and lack of flaws and/or bugs, Big Rigs was critically acclaimed,and quickly managed to become the best-rated game on review aggregator websites Metacritic and GameRankings, and has been frequently cited as one of the best racing games of all time by multiple gaming publications. The game has also attracted a well-deserved cult following since its stellar 2003 release.