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 Heart POUNDING! September 6, 2010
Sheeple
So i recently bought a copy of PC gamer... It had a demo for split second. Within minutes i was shaking from the experience. I sent the demo to a friend.
I eventually bought the game. I love just about every minute of it. Unfortunately, it's also a good thing i bought a punching bag. Most of the events are MADDENINGLY fun! The racing is well balanced, and the amount of shortcuts are reminiscent of the "Rush" series.
HOWEVER, this game goes to great lengths to cheat. Don't believe me? Then play one of the Helicopter Evade races. If you go too fast, you'll die. If you go too slow, you wont get any points. This event doesn't become fun, skillful or balanced until the revenge stages. And the ONLY thing worse than those stages are the time trial stages where you have to use the car they force on you. If i didn't own the aforementioned punching bag, i would have broken my keyboard, monitor, controller and countless other peripherals (if not the computer itself) a long time ago.
When it's fun, it's ADDICTIVELY fun!! When it's bad, it's HORRENDOUSLY, CHEATINGLY BAD!!!
 total blast! July 30, 2010
Gilbert Ortiz (new york city)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
excellent game all around, easy to install and fast start up. very happy with this purchase
really fun racing game July 18, 2010
RudeInternetUser (Taichung, Taiwan)
This game is extremely fun. Being able to interact with the environment, create explosions to destroy your opponents, and ultimately change the racing course is great. You try to time your "power plays" so that a truck may explode and skid across the track into your opponents car in front of you, or have a falling building destroy a bunch of cars and create a new route with lots of high jumps, or even having a plane crash into a runway that is part of the race track. Power plays are gained by drifting, drafting, and dodging the malicious environment. The graphics are undeniably phenomenal. The fantasy cars look fairly real, though design can be repetitive. The tracks are great fun, and most of them has one or more have epic track changes. Track changes basically look like this: A ship will tip over and crash into the runway pwning all cars in the way, and provide a new part of the map with new obstacles to control. It also shortens the track to give advantage to whoever triggers it. There are 11 tracks, but almost half of them look the same with a bit of a twist. Other game modes like survival (running by giant trucks that dump explosive barrels at you) give you other maps, but still look very similar to the maps in regular racing. Another great thing is that you get SPLIT SCREEN!! this is great. I have a buddy come over and we play against each other on the same computer screen. Games like Blur do not offer this, and if you do not have a solid online community, playing by yourself can be dull. You can have both players on one keyboard, both use xbox controllers, or one with controller and one with keyboard.
After playing the game for a bit, you start to figure out all the places that you can trigger stuff, and may lesson the excitement. The Campaigns are fun, but get repetitive. The levels get extremely difficult and ultimately discourage players from wanting to finish it. I spent many hours on one campaign and never getting first. There is little story line at all, other than a commentator (a pretty good one) only talks when you enter a new session, but doesn't talk at all otherwise. I can see that they did not fully develop the idea of commentating. The music is also poor, so you may want to put on some exciting music for the background instead of in game music. The AI can unrealistic: does not spin out of control when you slam into them, whereas the opposite is true. They also seem to catch up when you are far ahead first, though this keep things from being dull.
All in all, great game but doesn't seem to be fully developed. A lot more work could have been done to perfect this epic racing game. There also isn't much customization due to the nature of console ports. Other than that and the previously reported flaws, I highly recommend this game.
Vendo merchant service July 11, 2010
mchavez
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased a video game Split Second from the merchant Vendo via amazon.com. The game was shipped in a timely manner and the packaging protected the item from damage. I highly recommend this company and the game.
 NOT a PC game! June 14, 2010
A. E. Smith (West Coast, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do not bother buying this game if you intend to play it on a PC. You will get what is obviously, a console only game, with only the most basic support for a PC. There is NO support for a racing wheel/pedal combination (which the game identifies as a "joypad"), no ability to significantly re-assign buttons or keys for racing and you will end up either having to play from the keyboard, or reaching back and forth between wheel and keyboard to access functions.
During game-play, you will have to build "power" to access the various functions (Explosions, track changes, etc.) Building "power" to access the power-ups requires you to "drift" your car, which on a wheel/pedal set-up means you must violently turn the wheel, let off the gas, quickly stab down on the brake pedal, let off the brake and slam the gas back down and hold the wheel over for a short "drift". Repeat over and over and over in order to build enough power to play the game as intended. This will quickly lead to extreme leg fatigue, or broken pedals (unless you have very expensive metal pedals and the ability to apply them very quickly, but very gently).
As if that wasn't enough, there is NO force feedback, a "rumble" option that does not "rumble", no E-brake and more frustration than this game warrants.
The game-play is purely arcade and simply does not work well on a PC. I have a very advanced driving set-up for my PC and I own nearly all the driving sims/games that there are. This one is among the worst. Buy it for a console, buy it for its arcade action, buy it if you are 9 yrs old, but don't buy it if you wanted a blow-em up, action racer that you can play on your PC - because, with this game, you can't.
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