Professional troll Gameloft is at it again, and this time they were 'inspired' by Split/Second for their upcoming Fast Five: The Movie: Official Game -- Fast Five being the fifth The Fast and the Furious movie.
The sad thing is that the trailer actually makes it look better, in terms of graphics, than the Split/SecondiPhone and iPad games. Whether it's actually better or worse in terms of gameplay is something we'll have to wait and see though.
If you intend to make a statement against the continuous rip-offs, you could just buy the Split/Second iOS games instead. But then you can also be sure that Gameloft will later say "See, we even raise more awareness and revenue for the games we rip off!"
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you must be nuts to think that this looks better than Split/Second. I mean seriously. The environment maps on the cars were stronger? S/S has ambience, mood and epicness in the explosions.
Incidentally, I have not played either game, I am going from the media available on this site.
If I had been told ten (or however long ago the 1st came out) that the fast n furious would have 4 sequels and multiple spinoffs I never would have believed it...I still wish it wasn't so
Being a gamer on a really tight budget, as long as Gameloft's games are cheaper than their more expensive source material, more power to them. If Modern Combat Domination for PS3 is an indication of their current quality, I anticipate their games to be quite adequate alternative to today's $60 games.
It's design and gameplay were mediocre, and understandably most people have pretty much forgotten about it. It wasn't terrible, but there's no reason to exist as an inferior copycat.
S/S on console was def my fav raceer last year... hands down!
Never saw the ios version but was def left wanting when the psp version came out and I was pretty hyped for it too.
ca la vie
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12:40 PM on 04.05.2011 | 
Incidentally, I have not played either game, I am going from the media available on this site.
Compare it to the iTunes links of Split/Second, not the console games.
My apologies, S/S looks retarded in iOS.
Spinoffs? What spinoffs?
Whats the difference between this being a ripoff and something like Dante's Inferno being "just a game with similar concepts" as God of War?
There was a day when no first person shooter could be released without it being labeled a "Doom Clone"
Dante's inferno Is a GOW knockoff...
It's design and gameplay were mediocre, and understandably most people have pretty much forgotten about it. It wasn't terrible, but there's no reason to exist as an inferior copycat.
Silly Innovation... you get thrown around so easily and people believe in whatever you landed from and not tossed off...
I don't understand why the "industry" stood behind that game but takes issue with Gameloft when they do the same thing
Never saw the ios version but was def left wanting when the psp version came out and I was pretty hyped for it too.
ca la vie
*SPOILER ALERT*
sequel Split/Second drove at the finale of the campaign. I got goosebumps at it.
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