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Jul 12, 2016 · Split/Second melds fast-paced explosive racing with reality television, and the results are impressive. If you prefer arcade-style action to tweaking engines, the game is worth picking up, even ...
- Managing Editor, Apps And Gaming
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- Kart racing grows up.
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By Arthur Gies
Updated: Jan 10, 2022 10:06 pm
Posted: May 25, 2010 11:45 pm
As 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 against other drivers on a track designed to be destroyed.
Split/Second has the most impressive destruction and explosions yet seen in a racing game. From passenger jets exploding across a tarmac as you race under a wing, to detonating power plant cooling towers, to collapsing train tracks, Split/Second assaults your eyes as soon as you're off the starting line. There's so much going on during races that it's often difficult to navigate the game's courses, though the designers usually do a pretty good job of marking turns and plastering visual cues around the track.
While it's occasionally clear that the the environments and vehicles have some fairly simple geometry, Black Rock has done well to heavily stylize the game through lighting and color filters. Each course has a specific palette and theme without feeling monotonous, and the lighting is particularly strong. Split/Second is the closest a racing game has come to approximating the look of popular car films of the last decade or so, and that goes a long way to selling the premise. The visual design and UI are also very slick, though occasionally a little obtuse.
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 last you quite a while. While there are flaws, these are more than made up for with strong design,...
- Arthur Gies
Michelle McLaine. Alastair Duncan. Det. Dick Durkin. Michael J. Pollard. The Rat Catcher. Alun Armstrong. Thrasher. A policeman (Rutger Hauer) hunts a slimy monster ripping out hearts in 2008 ...
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- Rutger Hauer
Has been ever since Bladerunner. This movie has an extreemly thin plot, campy acting, moody gritty alleys, a big scary monster and big cool guns. Hauer is awesome in his leather coat, cigar, sunglasses and with the biggest baddest handgun ever. This movie rocks.
May 18, 2010 · Summary. Split/Second, is an intense action racing game set within the world of a hyper-competitive reality television show. Content Rating. Violence. Developers. Black Rock Studio. Publishers ...
Jun 10, 2010 · Split/Second: Velocity review. Stability issues notwithstanding, this explosive new arcade racer is just about as compulsive as they come. PCGamer. PC Gamer is the global authority on PC games ...
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May 18, 2010 · Split/Second, an intense action racing game set within the world of a hyper-competitive reality television show. Competitors vie to be the first across the finish line in a made-for-TV city built for destruction, with the ultimate goal of becoming the season champion. Competitors in Split/Second don't just collide with other vehicles to knock them from the track -- they can also trigger ...
