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Black Rock's latest shows a lot of promise, but is there enough for seasoned racing veterans to keep coming back? With destructible environments and high-speed manoeuvres, this is one surprisingly good racer...
Exciting racing with plenty of stand-out moments. Nice variety in the track selection and modes. Satisfying destruction. Well structured career.
Frame rate stable but not as fast as it should be for this style of racer. Rubber band AI will be frustrating for some. Online racing car selection limited to offline career unlocks. Some replays would’ve been nice.
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Split Second isn't just the best of these two games, it's an excellent game in its own right. It's easy to imagine it as the first in a long-running series. But if Blur has any chance of building into a franchise, the developers will need to head back to the drawing board to recover from this disappointing first outing.
Split Second isn't just the best of these two games, it's an excellent game in its own right. It's easy to imagine it as the first in a long-running series. But if Blur has any chance of building into a franchise, the developers will need to head back...
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Games are young and naive, so they hang out with older boys – movies – to be cool. They smoke and nod sagely at whatever movies do, aping their moves, desperate to be mistaken for one. And they’re just too star-struck to see their idols are mainly bloa...
Madcap creativity, Huge explosions, Brilliantly chaotic and rapid racing...
Madeup, non licensed cars, Limp crashes and impacts, Lacks that killer edge...
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Think about your favourite car chase of all time; a subjective endeavour, certainly, but not one without merit. For every person that immediately thinks Bullitt, theres another that will endorse The French Connection, and for that person theres anoth...
Pure may have been impressive, but Black Rocks latest racer proves that narrowing and refining its scope, while keeping the imagination, pays dividends. The season modes events have enough variation to easily hold interest, but get a friend over and...
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Reality television has gone stale. Big Brother is droning to an end, jungles across the world have been touched by so many celebrities that hacking them down no longer seems a crime, even Simon Cowell has pulled the plug on his American Idol tenure. We...
Reality television has gone stale. Big Brother is droning to an end, jungles across the world have been touched by so many celebrities that hacking them down no longer seems a crime, even Simon Cowell has pulled the plug on his American Idol tenure. We...
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Disney Interactive and Black Rock Studio team up once again to give us another original take on the racing genre. Split/Second combines the framework of a traditional arcade racer with a gameplay mechanic that allows you to trigger explosions within t...
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One simply can’t play Split Second without drawing comparisons to the seminal crash ‘em up series, Burnout. There are great-looking cars, high-speed action, and plenty of variety in both games to keep one entertained for hours on end. Split Second un...
Superfun arcade racer, spectacular environmental events, wonderful multiplayer...
Almost too much good stuff to take in at one time, not enough of my friends have this game!...
Along comes a racer… Fast cars, big explosions, crazy crashes! What’s not to love about Split Second? Checkout our full review of this adrenaline-fueled, new title, After the Break!Full Review:One simply can’t play Split Second without drawing compar...
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Simulation racers and I don’t generally get along. I appreciate their attention to detail, and how accurately the digital cars recreate the experience of driving the real thing, but it’s all a bit boring. Outside of Mario Kart, arcade-style racers have...
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With so many arcade racing games on the market, it is hard to find out which one will fully satisfy your inner speed demon. Thanks to Disney Interactive and Black Rock Studio's Split/Second, you'll get a mash up of all the great racers in one petal pus...
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Play.tm
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Split/Second comes from Blackrock Studios, who were responsible for the much underrated off-road racer Pure. The finesse and attention to detail are evident here as they take us back to the halcyon days of pure explosive racing...
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Split/Second is a fantastic and fantastically straight forward racing game that, despite a lot of explosive violence, is really and truly fun for the whole family.The premise is simple enough: near-future television show broadcasts car races on tracks...
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Split/Second does not work. It should, with a menagerie of exploding buildings, toppling towers, and crashing freighter jets smashing cars during the course of a race. It is a seemingly fail-proof concept until it enters into execution and completely c...
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So you think you have seen everything that racing games have to offer? You have attacked the corners of the Nordschleife and launched yourself from the roof of a Paradise City parking garage. But have you ever had to dodge a crashing jumbo jet? Split/S...
Breathtaking graphics and thrilling action.
Awful 'rubberband' AI punishes more skilled racing gamers.
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There are two types of racing games hitting the market. You have the ultra-realistic racing simulators such as Forza Motorsport 3 and Gran Turismo 5 (if it ever comes out), and then you have your arcade style racers like Need For Speed. I, for one, hav...
For someone who’s not a big racing fan I must admit I really enjoyed Split Second. This arcade style racer gets the heart racing, and will have your eyes bulging. And that’s just the single player mode! Hop online and play some multiplayer or even spli...
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From the developer of the 2008 fast-paced, off-road, quad-bike racer, Pure comes Split/Second Velocity, a stylised, over-the-top arcade racer that has a heavy emphasis on destruction and speed. This isn’t your standard ‘A’ to ‘B’ racer. The events in S...
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Fast cars and explosions are, for many people, a match made in heaven. Hollywood directors with cash to burn seem required to film at least one high-speed sequence on a busy motorway, complete with cars flipping out of control and crashing into each ot...
Glorious visuals, Thrilling powerplays, Feels too simple, Not enough cars on track...
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When did Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer start making video games? Well they haven’t…or have they? Jerry is in pretty tight with Disney these days and they are responsible for the mega-summer blockbuster action racing game coming to a theater…err…liv...
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Black Rock Studios' last title was Pure, an ATV racer that dealt out a phenomenal amount of vertical experience. Lots of tricks and crazy stunts. It has remained in rotation at my house thanks to a 10-year old that has long since eclipsed m...
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Visually speaking, Split/Second is a fabulous looking racing game. Black Rock Studios has locked down a very solid frame rate well allowing so much to occur on screen. It is really quite amazing how so many explosions and the resulting carnage occurs...
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If Michael Bay made Burnout.In the realm of racing games it takes quite a bit to stand out. The Burnout series took things to new heights with each release focusing more on arcade action and destruction as opposed to gear tuning and tire pressure. Blac...
Power plays change the game, Awesome explosions, Solid controls, Lush visuals...
Track repetition, Forgettable soundtrack, Frustrating rubberband AI...
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Racing games fall into specific categories, bringing simulation to new heights or serving platefuls of chaos to the masses. Today we take a look at Split/Second from the team at Black Rock Studios, a racing game that brings movie-inspired chaos that ev...
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Speeding down an airport runway in a shiny red sports car is cool; speeding down an airport runway with an out-of-control aircraft thundering toward you is insane. That's the idea behind Split/Second, an arcade racer in which you wreck your opponents b...
Power plays lead to some fiery thrills, Slick racing model with a good sense of speed, Survival and Airstrike modes are neat twists.
Thin package that relies too much on a single mechanic, Scant online options, Online scoring bugs.
This shallow but rambunctious arcade racer may have only one trick up its sleeve, but it's a really good trick...
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Boasting a high-octane over-the-top style with explosive amounts of substance to match, Black Rock Studios' Split/Second is a sleek, addictive, and rewarding console racer made even better by its ingenious Power Play mechanic.I'm not a big fan of simul...
Power play gimmick is ingenious and unique; superb track designs; imparts a tangible sense of speed.
Traps are the only way you can wreck an opponent; no reward for causing crashes; being in the lead isn't the advantageous position it should be.
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Racing games, at their best, feel dangerous. You should get the sense that you're strapped into a death machine, pushing your screaming body around the track. Split/Second elicits that feeling by putting you and your car into a faux-reality show wher...
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ign.com
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by Arthur GiesAs much a Kart racer as an arcade racing title, Split/Second is as predicated on screwing over other competitors as finding a perfect driving line. The premise is simple: as a contestant on the television show Split/Second, you'll race ag...
In the end though, Split/Second has so much going for it that it's easy to recommend for kart and arcade racing fans alike. The visuals are great, the sound impresses, and there's enough game between the singleplayer season mode and fun multiplayer to...
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