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Split/Second ZOOM!
15 years ago
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I have always liked racing games despite the fact I'm not that good at them, but that did not stop me before while attempting Cruisin' USA, Cruisin' World, Ridge Racer, Mario Kart, World Driver Championship, Re-volt, and Burnout Paradise. Split Second feels and looks different (in fact it looks great) from the others, but put all that aside and this game has gotta be THE hardest racing game I have EVER played. The way this game works is that you have a power gauge and in order for you to build up power in that gauge you can do a variety of things. Do long power-slides/drifts, drift past someone in front of you, get air-time in jumps, drafting, or get close calls. When your gauge gets to a certain point or fills up to a point, you get to execute what is called power-plays, which simply is to detonate a nearby something to explode in a great way. Power-plays can be explosions, building blowing up and falling on the track, forklifts dropping lots of steel girders on top of you, there's too many for me to list so I'm gonna move on. The thing that killed this game for me is level of difficulty in the Season mode. There are certain things that are wrong in the basic mechanics of the game while in Season mode.
1: The power-plays backfire a lot more and don't work as often.
2: The Elite Drivers are WAAAAY too good, good to the point of broken (basically godmodding).
3: Sometimes when you bump into a wall that would normally result as just a bump then result in you being wrecked.
4: Certain Challenges in season mode have close to impossible time expectations.
5: Your starter cars are useless as the season progresses, and the game upgrades itself with faster cars so the game makes the starter cars obsolete.
6: The game expects the impossible and expects you to get 1st in EVERYTHING in order for you to earn the credits to get other cars!
7: The AI in the regular drivers also have the same thing as the Elite Drivers in the regards of them being able to corner a turn without losing speed and not hit a wall while you slow down and slam into walls.
Quick play mode is basically the only place I actually have fun and when the game is fair, I have my doubts I will be able to unlock the other cars, but at least I can say I didn't try. ^^
But seriously why do game developers make these games with near impossible difficulty?! I know that some people say that it gives a feeling of accomplishment, but they said the same thing about Monster Hunter Tri and that was the worst game I've ever played. Games to me are meant to blow off steam, not to frustrate the living hell out of people! COME ON!
Thank you. ^^
1: The power-plays backfire a lot more and don't work as often.
2: The Elite Drivers are WAAAAY too good, good to the point of broken (basically godmodding).
3: Sometimes when you bump into a wall that would normally result as just a bump then result in you being wrecked.
4: Certain Challenges in season mode have close to impossible time expectations.
5: Your starter cars are useless as the season progresses, and the game upgrades itself with faster cars so the game makes the starter cars obsolete.
6: The game expects the impossible and expects you to get 1st in EVERYTHING in order for you to earn the credits to get other cars!
7: The AI in the regular drivers also have the same thing as the Elite Drivers in the regards of them being able to corner a turn without losing speed and not hit a wall while you slow down and slam into walls.
Quick play mode is basically the only place I actually have fun and when the game is fair, I have my doubts I will be able to unlock the other cars, but at least I can say I didn't try. ^^
But seriously why do game developers make these games with near impossible difficulty?! I know that some people say that it gives a feeling of accomplishment, but they said the same thing about Monster Hunter Tri and that was the worst game I've ever played. Games to me are meant to blow off steam, not to frustrate the living hell out of people! COME ON!
Thank you. ^^
(as you can probably guess, hon, i dont know what you're talking about XD)