The emphasis is firmly on insane action rather than pure racing and when I say insane action I mean it, it’s not long into the game when you’re hurtling at breakneck speed fighting off your rivals whilst trying stay on the best racing line. Split/Second, or, to give it its full title Split/Second: Velocity (a subtitle strangely absent from all in-game splash screens and menus so we’ll dispense with it too) is a hi-octane arcade racer, formed in the same melting pot as Criterion’s Burnout series. The reason? Developers Blackrock Studios, who have previous form with the often overlooked but damned good – Pure, have now created an action racer with a twist. For some people the name ‘Disney’ when used in-conjunction with a video game could put them off making the purchase but this is no ordinary Disney title: there are no Princesses to woo or strange but wonderful cartoony worlds to venture across.
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