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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 (
A [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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** 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
* [[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
* [[Dueling Games]]: Sorta, being released about a week before ''[[Blur (
* [[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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