If Split/Second has a problem, it’s that it’s going to be over sooner than you’d like. If you want to give your home cinema system a workout, you won’t do much better than this. From the urgent, action-movie music to the various clangs, thuds, bangs and blasts, Split/Second sounds like the biggest, most overblown blockbuster you’ve ever seen on a cinema screen. If you’re familiar with the cinematic works of Messrs Bruckheimer, Bay and Scott, then you’ll find many echoes of their style replicated with skill, and not a little genuine love. Even were this a conventional racer the graphics would be stunning, with fantastically detailed tracks, rich lighting and a gorgeous, ultra-smooth frame rate, but when you throw in the explosions, the dust splatters and a range of brilliant, cinematic special effects, the cumulative results are dazzling. Split/Second is also a fantastically polished game.

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