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One day, the fine folks at Disney Interactive Studios, after watching a 10-hour marathon of [[Michael Bay]] movies, picked up their copy of ''[[Burnout]] Paradise'' and thought, "This is a fun game, but it's missing something... something ''[[Buffy-Speak|explodey]]''." And with that, the game ''Split Second'' was born.
 
''Split Second'' is a racing game set up like a [[Reality Show|reality]]/[[Game Show]] (not to be confused with the [[Split Second (TV series)|Tom Kennedy quizzer]] from [[The Seventies]]) in which racers compete through 12 episodes of an internationally broadcast television series, also titled ''Split Second''. The racing is much like it is in any arcade racer, with one key difference: at any point, after accumulating enough energy (through drifting, drafting and jumps), racers can set off "Power Plays" in which bombs are dropped from helicopters, cars and trucks on the side of the track are blown up, overhead cranes and bridges are blown up and fall onto the track, ''the road itself'' is blown up to change the route of the course, buildings fall over, planes fall out of the sky... yeah, it's basically ''Burnout'' turned into a [[Summer Blockbuster]].
 
All it's missing is [[Megan Fox]] and [[Linkin Park]]<ref>or not, considering the fact that she won't be in the third ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' movie</ref>.
 
A [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809123409/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/05/04/split-second-2-canceled-layoffs-at-black-rock-studio.aspx sequel was in development but Disney canceled the project], [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-01-split-second-dev-black-rock-to-close leading to the studio's ultimate closure.]
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* [[AKA -47]]: Kinda. The vehicle companies seem to be pastiches of real companies. Ryback has more chunky vehicles that bear a strong resemblance to the modern versions of classic American muscle cars (Camaro, Mustang, Dodge Challenger). Cobretti cars are sleeker, with a name evocative of Italian manufacture (Ferrari, Lamborghini). Which makes Hanzo the Japanese company (name close to Mazda, Honda).
* [[Attack Reflector]]: You eventually get the opportunity to destroy those damn helicopters by sending their missiles right back at them.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Level 2 Power Plays are sometimes completely ineffectual if you time it wrong or if there aren't enough cars to be hit by it when you fire it off.
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** One of the Power Plays on the "Airport Terminal" level causes the air traffic control tower to topple over, crushing the racers beneath it and rerouting the course onto the airport runway. During the next lap, a jumbo jet comes in for a crash landing on said runway. ''[[Oh Crap|While you are racing on it]]''.
*** That one is pretty easy to avoid (just stick to the far left of the track and watch the incoming jet engine) and is actually a separate Level 2 Power Play. But still. ''Crashing plane''.
* [[Death Is a Slap Onon The Wrist]]: If your car gets wrecked, you simply reappear after several seconds just fine. On the other hand, considering this is an action packed racing game, those are still precious few seconds being wasted. However, this is averted in certain game modes, where death is permanent, automatically ending the round for the affected player.
* [[Death World]]: In the 'Detonator' mode, the player has to complete a lap of the track while the majority of the offensive Power Plays trigger in front of them. Every barrel, fence, car, train, building and bridge can and WILL explode as you drive past it in an attempt to throw you into a wall and explode. In short this mode could be renamed [[Everything Trying to Kill You]].
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: In no small part, the developers and the game itself make quite the effort to tell you that everything portrayed within is entirely fictional, and should NOT be attempted in real life for any reason. They again, this is DISNEY we are talking about.
* [[Downloadable Content]]: In addition to several car packs, there are three packs that each include a new game mode, a new track, and a few cars. The new modes are Survival Race ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|racing in Survival mode]]), Deadline (Detonator with timer-pausing pickups), and Onslaught (racing in Air Strike mode).
* [[Dueling Games]]: Sorta, being released about a week before ''[[Blur (Videovideo Gamegame)|Blur]]'', even though being an arcade racer is pretty much the only thing both games have in common.
* [[Disaster Movie]]: Many of the Level 2 Power Plays look like they came out of one of these.
* [[Epic Fail]]: You know you (or the other AI cars) are doing terribly in an Elite race if ''Rigg'' is in first place, because he drives the Elite Goliath mentioned above. Even under AI control, Rigg is basically the [[Butt Monkey]] of the Elite team and will almost always come in dead last regardless of everything that happens in the race.
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* [[Follow the Leader]]: It's ''[[Burnout]]'' <small>WITH TRAPS! AND NO BOOSTING!</small>
* [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Car]]: The Cobretti Slipstream is an amazingly good car, especially if you love drifting, and works well on almost any track. The Elite S510 is a close second. The Elite cars are not actually that practical despite their awesomeness or good looks. The description for the [[Le Mans]]-esque car won by taking 1st in the final race lampshades this a bit:
{{quote| "It's a purebred track car. Great! Except we're going to make you race it down a ''storm drain'', through a hail of ''explosions''."}}
* ~[[It's Going Down~]]: If you see anything big, tall, and cool-looking in the level scenery, there's a pretty good chance that it will be sitting on top of a car at the end of the race.
** Or ''several'' cars. The more that aren't you, the better.
* [[Limit Break]]: Level 2 Power Plays, which use your entire energy bar, and which often have a far greater impact on the race (changing the route, taking out several racers at once).
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* [[Runaway Train]]: One Route Changer sends a train careening down a track next to the course before blowing up. You can get a [[Cosmetic Award]] for taking out three or more racers with this: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|The Pain Train]].
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The likely state of the course after a few laps.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The entire game is one long love letter to popcorn [[Summer Blockbuster|summer blockbusters]].
** Survival Mode, in which you have to overtake a series of semi-trucks that are dropping explosive barrels to stop you, is lifted almost directly from similar scenes in ''[[Bad Boys]] II'' and ''[[The Island]]''.
*** One of the Survival courses takes place in a storm drain, giving a feel very similar to a [[Chase Scene]] in ''[[Terminator]] 2''.
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