#Arcade Racing

Split/Second: The Forgotten Arcade Masterpiece That Deserved So Much Better

Some games define a generation without ever reaping the rewards. Split/Second is one of them: a spectacular and inventive arcade racing game released in 2010 by Black Rock Studio that crashed into commercial indifference and took its studio down with it. Sixteen years later, it remains an absolute reference point in the genre—an almost perfectly designed game object that nobody cites enough. It was time to set the record straight.