So I've been hearing things for awhile about the upcoming game that Black Rock Studios, the folks behind the excellent off-road racer Pure, was working on. The first part of the rumor had it being a racing game, which wasn't surprising. The other half of the rumor said it would packed with destruction -- both environmental and vehicle -- that would blow minds. The "Burnout Killer" people said.
Last night, GameTrailers TV had an exclusive first-look at the game in question, called Split/Second and coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. To say it looks "incredible" is an understatement. While I'm not sure how much of what we're seeing is in-game and not pre-rendered, the ideas are there, and they've got my attention. A collapsing bridge; the entire front end of cars being torn to shreds; an exploding gas station; fast cars. Throw in a free bag of Skittles with every purchase and you've got my sale, for sure.
How closely the game will play to Criterion's Burnout series (from the trailer it looks like the environmental stuff may be player-triggerer) remains to be seen. But whether or not Black Rock is gunning to snatch Criterion's "King of Arcade-style Racing" title, one thing is for certain: Split/Second definitely looks kick ass.
You can check out the full trailer in HD over at GameTrailers, and you definitely want to do that.
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4:00 PM on 03.07.2009
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in the meantime I'll still be rocking burnout paradise
That's wicked fucking awesome.
Besides the intriguing premise, it does look fun, and if that's not pre-rednered graphics, then holy hell...
I'll wait for a new Burnout or GT5, thank you.
After driving the Ecto 1 and the Delorean, it's hard to imagine something better. Still waiting on the next island...
BTW, I love the ps2 days, devs tried to get things to run at full frame. Here, we have next gen consoles, and only a few titles are up to the task.
Still, it's got to beat out Fuel and it's Flaming Tornadoes, before it can take out the Janson 88 Special and Paradise.
The trailer, IMHO, is all prerendered. Not only that, the devs will have comabt the most popular, best and quite frankly, most fun racer on the market.
Good luck to them beating a ENTIRE franchise with one game, a franchise that has churned out consistenly brillant games, re-defined a sub genre, is loved by millions, sold millons of copies, and has THE best DLC a game has had so far, ever.
So in short, I do seriously doubt this will ever be a 'Burnout-killer'.
GRID looks amazing, and it runs at 60fps. I don't how this game can't look like that and run at 60fps. Technology is fast.
And Mushman is absolutely right.