There are a few ways to describe Disney’s Split/Second, an action racing game with a game play twist. It’s a mash-up of street racing meets movie car chases. It’s demolition derby where racers destroy the environment rather than competitors cars to win. The industry pitch might be EA’s Burnout meets the Stephen King-Arnold Schwarzenegger dystopian future film Running Man. If that last one sounds like a stretch, consider that the premise puts race car drivers in a win or die reality show.
Elevator pitches aside, the game brings a unique twist to action racing that the video trailer has to get across. It does a clever job of doing it with a literal mash-up of its own. It baits with an intro worthy of a polished racing simulation game. It then abruptly takes a comedic turn into showing the mayhem and over-the-top action that can be expected in the game.
Watch it at GameTrailers.
