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Racing games are usually only focused on the ratings. If you want to be winners in a racing game, you or the player must occupy the top positions in every race that followed. However, not in the game Split / Second. There is another focus needs to be done, namely how the strategy should be done by you to trap and slow the enemy. Strategy is to destroy or blow up a special building that is in the racecourse. The more often you drive a car trapped in the explosion, you will increasingly lagging far behind.

The main thing that is offered by the Split Second is PowerPlay, which are required to activate a trap or explosion. PowerPlay can only be filled if you do some interesting attractions, such as drifting, drafting, jumping, and a close call if you can avoid the explosion. PowerPlay can you use if you has been filled at least one bar of the three bars that are available. However, if patiently waited until the third bar is fully charged, you can activate the explosion of the most extreme in the race track, like demolish the building, destroying tunnels and railways, to change the race route.

All traps or explosive shall be done from a distance before the car you drive up to the hotspots or areas of entrapment. If the car is in front of the enemy that you’re past the trap area and displays an icon, it’s time you use the PowerPlay. There is one thing you should note, was the location of traps only in some specific areas. If you’re not in a timely manner to enable PowerPlay, instead of your own car will be crushed. Interestingly, all of your opponents in this race can also enable PowerPlay so that they can trap you.

Jumping jumping the length of time you do will affect the PowerPlay which will be obtained.
Split / Second as if to invite you to follow a reality show. All participants are required to be doing the race to earn money. In addition to the normal mode, the game Split / Second, you can also play other modes, including Survival mode, Air Strike, detonators, and Elimination.
In Survival mode, you not only compete with the cars racing peers. However, in that mode you will also find various types of trucks are ready to confront you along the racecourse and the trucks will drop the drums or metal cans that will ruin your car if you hit it. Air Strike on the mode, you will be tested in order to avoid various missiles thrown from the helicopter along the racecourse. Detonators and Elimination mode is a race that requires you to avoid automatic PowerPlay and your car should not be in a position that has been bloated by the time specified.
Black Rock Studios, as the developer of this game has slashed the speedometer display and map of the monitor screen. Lap Count, PowerPlay Bar, as well as a position player can still be seen and placed behind the car so that you or a player of this game spoiled by a vast landscape.

In terms of graphics, detail all the cars that appear still looks less than optimal. Strangely, the car hit by friction or hit the other player still looks smooth and no peeling parts. Significant damage was only seen when a car hit by the blast and shattered. Cars and location of the racecourse on this game is not contained in the real world. Ease of control in this game unlike any other racing game. Attractions drifting can be done easily. This game also brings the multiplayer mode with a capacity of eight people (online) or two (offline) split screen on a PC.

Minimum Specifications: Windows XP/Vista/7 Processor: Intel Pentium 4@3.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 4000 Memory: 2 Gb Hard Drive: 6.5 GB Free Video Memory: 256 Mb Video Card: nVidia GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon X1800