Fans of Xboxliveaddicts will be long familiar with Black Rock Studios previous work. Better known as Climax. They developed some of the most popular MotoGP titles to date. After handing over the licences, Disney Studios purchased Climax and turned them into Black Rock Studios. They then got to work on the well received ATV freestyle racer Pure and whilst we were all amused with Pure, the studio was secretly creating another type of racer, that game. Is Split/Second.
To give the game a little more credit of ‘we just wanted to blow s*** up at you whilst you raced.’ The game adopts a televised style of presentation. With a 12 Episode season running of around 6 different events each episode, giving the viewers plenty of variety and destruction. Racers can earn ‘power plays’ mid race to use on the environment. Earning these can be by performing drifts, jumps etc.
There were a number of cult classics that didn't sell like gangbusters, but still worked their way into gamers' hearts. Here's WWG list of nine great titles that deserve a second chance on newer consoles
I'll point out that these games are all from the X360/PS3 era - they've already had HD releases when they first came out. Split/Second and Blur - with the crazy vehicle physics capable today, why would we not want sequels to them?
The other games, all a matter of opinion of course, but... thank you for your ads between every single game. /s
Problem with sequels is that they aren't very likely. Activision dropped Blur like a bad habit, and Disney isn't doing games anymore. So I'll happily take the originals.
As much as I'd kill for a Demon's Souls remake, isn't likely. We'll probably get Bloodborne 2 instead.
Dafuq kinda title is that? These games were already released on HD consoles though...
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James Pettegrow talks us through an arcade racing title that didn't get as much credit as it deserved.
As it was said, Disney shut it down due to it not being successful enough. With that said, a sequel could definitely have improved on Split Second's arcade madness.
Split/Second and Blur were the two most under rated racers last gen. They were great games and wish there were potential sequels.
Personally, i prefer games like that, more so Split Second than Blur. I also remember when i was playing Destruction Derby Raw back in the day.
GRIP is a game going to early access on Steam, because there wasn't enough people backing it on Kickstarter (unfortunately).
That's one of my only hopes for racers i enjoy.
Hoping for BC as I still got the XB1 disc and still play it time to time. This and Midnight Club LA along with Project Gotham Racing 4 are hidden racing gems from the X360 days.
