Split Second

I played Split Second a while back and just never had the time to write this comment. 

Ok, so you drive this car around and you have to gain boost or 'special abilities' while to do dangerous stuff around the track. I haven't played the game that much but from what I have played you can destroy your opponents or use the environment against them. Like for example if you have enough boost or what ever its called that you need to collect to use the abilities you can call in a helicopter to destroy all the opponents or you can aim your rocket thing that destroy your opponents, but wait a second you don't even aim in this game, just a wait a bit and you will autolock on the other cars. 

You do get a variety of different modes on the game not just racing, I personally haven't tried them all, but there are a few of them and as you play through the campaign you get to experience them all.  

The theme of the game is a bit like Burnout, but Burnout is a much better game in my opinion. One thing that you can say with Split Second is the crashes, pretty sweet at times but again nothing special and Burnout just made it look better. 

Compare the game to Blur and well...its much better, lets not rage again over Blur like last time. 

So what do you get with Split Second, the one thing you do get is fake cars, I am no petrol head but there is no way these cars are real! but that's ok as the theme of the game works. I guess the important point here is, is the game fun? well yes in some ways, its fast like burnout and most of the time there are other ways that you follow to win the race which is pretty cool. 

Split Second is by its own right a separate game and even though I am comparing it to the Burnout Series, I really do it no justice, its a fun game but its no way a racing simulator but sometimes that not a bad thing. 

Personally the game does not appeal to me, its my thing but did I have fun while playing it...a little but it does not warrant paying the full price for the game!

Image one taken from: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://game1.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/split-second.jpg&imgrefurl=http://game1.in/%3Fp%3D682&usg=__rIfsu0aZ-wUUVJ8qGJnYVKGFs38=&h=1024&w=1280&sz=371&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=6KDmn7x5Dvu9vM:&tbnh=148&tbnw=195&ei=ZZQ9TePgEYjAhAfDqIjhCg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsplit%2Bsecond%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D933%26tbs%3Disch:10,120&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=332&oei=KJQ9TYL1KIa4hAeD1cGYCg&esq=6&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:0&tx=119&ty=68&biw=1280&bih=933

Image two taken from: http://www.thebitbag.com/2010/06/22/split-second-review/

Image three taken from:http://www.avclub.com/articles/splitsecond,41636/

Blur PS3

Before I do this post let me just say...NEVER BUY THIS GAME! 

Ok nerd rage over! I was playing Blur a few weeks back on the PS3 and I was surprised at the game, for some reason I thought that the game was about Racing and not about getting some stuff on the ground and then shooting them at your opponents! I guess the whole idea of shooting lasers out of my American muscle car is not my idea of a fun racing game. 

The game can be easily compared to the wipeout games and also Mario Kart to Crash Team Racing, but those games work, Wipeout was just amazing, flying around on hovering ships at super fast elite speed makes sense right and then shooting lasers all makes sense! and for the other ones, the genre the games are in makes it perfectly suitable for games like that and they are a lot of fun for all ages. 

But many I am just getting old and this type of franchise does not work for me any more, but I don't understand why they would make a game like that, I personally think that a game like that is best suited the cartoon genre of gaming as it makes it more fun, there is no need to add real cars, shooting lasers. I must admit that I didn't really play much of the game as it got so boring for me and it was just no fun at all. 

My advice of this one is, first of all rent the game and see if you like it, but if you want a simulator racing or just a pure racing game, stay away from Blur. 

Picture 1 taken from http://www.techshout.com/gaming/2009/21/blur-game-to-zoom-onto-gaming-consoles-this-autumn/

Picture 2 taken from http://kpsite.pcriot.com/?p=314

Halo Reach XBOX360

OK a few months ago I got my self a XBOX360 pretty decent price too and it came with Halo: Reach.

I have played the Halo franchise since it came out on the first edition Xbox and I loved them.  For me personally Halo games just gave me something completely different from any other first FPS that I have played and I have spent hours up hours playing the games. I didnt get the ODST Halo as well I didnt think it was any good to be honest not sure what Bungie were hoping to achieve by releasing it and also the Halo Wars game, again I didn't bother trying those out as well...I didn't think they looked very interesting to play, but then again you can not judge a book by it's cover!

Halo Reach is a good game, but that is as far as I would go. It has something different to offer which the new armour pick ups, such as Sprint or Jet Pack and they give the player a  lot of freedom and a new way of playing the game and also the assassination move which I must admit was a little tricky to master. The story I must say is fantastic, but well...I was expecting that, the Halo story line is what makes it stand out from the other games and Reach started it all (in story line terms). So it had the building blocks there in terms of the story, but I am not saying that is bad, I liked the game a lot but...I guess I expected a bit more of the story. 

When it comes to the  game play, its well the same, apart from what I mentioned about the armour pick ups. There are some new weapons to pick up which is pretty cool and the fight in space, where you actually fight in a space aircraft! well more like a jet, but its pretty either way! But that about it really the rest of the game you just kill more bad guys like you would in the other games. 


But where I think the Reach shines is the multilayer mode, I have played a few games and its alot of fun, the game is well balanced (even though I have heard that when it first started it had a few problems but what game does not) there are a variety of different modes to satisfy most Halo gamers. The firefight mode is also pretty interesting where you get the fight versus Covenant forces either protecting generators or a points based game against you and the other players. 


Halo: Reach also  lets you customise your character, but to a dramatic level, much more than the previous Halo games with the better armour unlock able as you get your rank higher, this feature I like a lot as it lets each player look different from anyone else and there are loads of customisations available so there is plenty to unlock while you play. The game adds "Forge" where you can pretty much create your own halo world and any game mode, this is by far the best feature in my opinion of the game, the amount of customisation you can do is again pretty sweet and you can let your imagination run wild. 


So even though I said that the Reach is not that good, I did not mean that the game is bad, the game is really good but in my opinion is not something special. By all means try it out and see if you like it. 

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