Split/Second - WTF Disney Interactive

[QCX]

So I got shown this game by a mate of mine and ended up downloading the demo off of XBL. I was absolutely amazed at it.

I love racing games. From Daytona to Grid all the way to Mario kart and CTR, all of them are as equally fun. You want to why?

It's racing. No matter what you do to racing, it's still racing at the end of the day. Sure you can try and give it a twist like a M. Night Shyamalan movie and make it a story driven game with a plot (no pun intended). But when it comes down to it, it's still a car (of sorts) going around a course in hopes to come first like angsty teen having intercourse for the first time.

So when I seen Disney labeled on a game I got a bit resistant to play this, but I am glad I did.

The game is set as a reality TV show, where cars race on track filled with danger in form of falling building and explosive buses. Seriously it's like a pyrotechnic specialist got his hands on C4 and just had a field day on the courses. But here's the twist on it, rather than just stuff exploding at random, you control when it happens and so can your opposition.
Whoa whoa whoa, I can hear you say it as I did too.

"This is Disney Interactive, shouldn't it be fuzzy bunny and gang having a picnic in the forest."

This game came out with a blatant "fuck you" and did burnouts on the bunny's head. Its taking racing and explosions, combined them together with a fast paced stylish car and the attitude of the A-team to make one bad ass game...and it's from Disney.

I'm still in shock from it. Did someone put acid in the water cooler over there or have they finally loosened the chastity belt off the nun's vagina and set her loose at spring break with a bottle of jack. I don't know, but I like this new Disney.

All in all the game is really well made. The graphics are really well done and the animations for all the explosions and falling buildings are in my eye's perfect. The handling of the cars is simple and effective and the controls are exactly how they should be.

The idea is to well finish first, but in the midst building up points that are used to trigger these awesome explosions by drifting, drafting, shoving, shunting and generally just doing some aggressive driving. But look out because well I managed to screw myself a couple of times by using them at the wrong time or my opponent trigger theirs on me.

The multi-player plays exactly the same without the story line and is rather fun. Just about anyone I played with has said the same thing...."This game is awesome".

And that's how I am going to leave it.

Well done Disney you did something besides make anti-Semitic metaphors in the form of a beloved children story.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Well, it's actually made by Black Rock, Disney Interactive are only the owners of that company and they don't even have that much to do with Disney.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Meh..Burnout is still more awesome.

 

[Esspytood]

i got the demo on a PC PowerPlay DVD and it was kinda nice.

but the absence of video settings ment i could only play in 4:3-o-vision... which is a bit odd.

...just a bit.

 

[razerdoh]

(no pun intended)

There's no such thing as an unintentional pun; the act of typing the phrase "no pun intended" makes it intentional. If your pun truly wasn't intended, then why didn't you erase it and write something else?

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

 

[QCX]

(no pun intended)

There's no such thing as an unintentional pun; the act of typing the phrase "no pun intended" makes it intentional. If your pun truly wasn't intended, then why didn't you erase it and write something else?

FYI, your post is contradictory of itself. In the time it took you to copy pasta that, you could have made a constructive criticism about my review, rather then coming across as a pedantic wanker.

The reasoning behind using "(no pun intended)" was cause I could clearly see a pun, but the way I wrote it was unintentional.




http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

 

[QCX]

Well, it's actually made by Black Rock, Disney Interactive are only the owners of that company and they don't even have that much to do with Disney.

Yeh but the fact that it has a Disney label at all, to me is kind of odd.

 

[QCX]

Super-elaborate spam?

In no way is this possibly classed as spam. For it to be spam, I would have to post it over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....etc.

This is a simple non-bias review of a game that in my opinion was good.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

Hmm, I have never even heard of this game before. It sounds quite interesting actually.

Also.

Sure you can try and give it a twist like a M. Night Shyamalan movie and make it a story driven game with a plot (no pun intended).

I don't get it...

 

[Nouw]

Split/Second is awesome. I agree. It's a new spin on the racing genre. Incredibly fun. It'd be another fine game to play with your mates.

 

[QCX]

Hmm, I have never even heard of this game before. It sounds quite interesting actually.

Also.

Sure you can try and give it a twist like a M. Night Shyamalan movie and make it a story driven game with a plot (no pun intended).

I don't get it...

Story "driven"

 

[migo]

Not much of a review. It doesn't touch on the best part of Split/second.

There are 3 ways to increase your gauge for blowing stuff up. Drifting (self explanatory), airtime (also self explanatory) and drafting (going up behind another car). Drafting is the part that's key. Anyone with even just a modicum of skill can drive behind other cars, rack up their gauge and blow stuff up. The further up front the player is, the less opportunity there is to draft, so you need to be good at drifting and getting airtime. This balances things out nicely, as if you are skilled you need to be better at drifting, but if you're not as skilled you can still have fun and get by just with normal driving and drafting.

I haven't seen any game, ever, that is as well balanced as Split/Second, and I'll buy it the moment I find some other people who like to play racing games.

 

[scnj]

It also doesn't manage to touch on the hideously unbalanced rubberband AI and overly frustrating chopper attack mode.

 

[QCX]

I'm not out to touch every tiny detail of a game and explain it in 30-40 ways. Its simply a non-bias opinion.

 

[migo]

It's not a review though, because you didn't review anything or say anything about the game that someone who watched a trailer or played the demo couldn't figure out.

 

[QCX]

Perhaps in your eyes, but to me it is a review.

A review can be in many forms, an opinion, a view, etc. Sure I am only giving little information and not really letting on about the entire game. That's because I'm not trying to, that's for the players discover for themselves.

As a reviewer its not my job to give spoilers or embellish the game, its to give my point of view, which I did.

 

[migo]

Explaining game mechanics isn't a spoiler, and you didn't give points of view of the game, you talked about your reaction to it being published by Disney. A review is supposed to include pros and cons of a game, something for the reader to decide if they want it. Nothing in your post gave any information beyond what someone could glean from playing the demo themselves or watching a couple trailers.

 

[tomtom94]

I picked this up for a quick play at one of the demo machines in HMV.

I think I spent about twenty minutes to half an hour on it, seeing several tourists from various countries try and understand DJ Hero (and one of them tell me Split/Second was a good game)
It's...well, the handling takes a lot of getting used to - it's a strange mixture of arcadey drifting and realistic slipperiness. BUT when you do get used to it, and learn when to trigger your stunts, this is a superb arcadey racer, in my honest opinion.
And I won't own it :'( *has only a Wii*

I will be honest, your reviews do need a bit of work, it just seems to me like a recommendation based solely on the fact the Disney brand is attached and it's not kiddy.

 

[Asehujiko]

Since when does "not disney like" suddenly make a game good?
The AI rubber banding is retarded, you can go from a 10 second lead to 2nd place in less then those 10 seconds, the fact that the game is stuck on 4:3 in 1024x768 just screams SHIT PORT and the game cheats by making you loose control of the car, which then flies sideways right into the new obstacle.

 

[migo]

Since when does "not disney like" suddenly make a game good?
The AI rubber banding is retarded, you can go from a 10 second lead to 2nd place in less then those 10 seconds, the fact that the game is stuck on 4:3 in 1024x768 just screams SHIT PORT and the game cheats by making you loose control of the car, which then flies sideways right into the new obstacle.

I completely disagree. The AI doesn't cheat terribly (like most other games), there's always a balance to let you catch up, and it's not cheating by making you lose control when someone activates a power play - that's part of the game. I've caught up from 5th place to 1st in Split/second which isn't possible in a lot of other racers which require you to take first and maintain it for the rest of the match. 1024x768 is 4:3, you apparently need to work on your math.