Split/Second

“The PC port of this game is slightly terrible, including no support for pro controllers, and graphics no better than its original Xbox 360 version.”

“Graphics options are severely limited, offering only a handful of presets.”

“After playing titles such as Battlefield 4, Dirt 3, Bioshock Infinite on very high graphical specs with a silky smooth framerate, I expected this game to look extra silky smooth; boy was I wrong, the framerate is capped at 30fps and there is noticeable stutter on top of that.”

“The music, voice and engine sounds are close to being silent, while every collision, explosion and tire skid is extremely loud, with only two options in the settings: music and everything else.”

“Most of the sound effects are pretty dated due to the game's age, and many sound effects like whooshes and tire squeals are significantly louder than the music, making it very noticeable until you find the sweet spot in the audio settings.”

“Music variety is low and the soundtrack is just insultingly generic.”

“The story is about as minimal as it gets and exists almost exclusively to provide context for the gameplay rather than to stand on its own.”

“I think it serves its purpose very well despite there being no characters to meet or grow attached to, no meaningful dialogue, no exposition beyond the basic premise, and no major plot developments that build toward a satisfying climax. From beginning to end, this game simply tells you that you're a contestant competing in a televised racing competition and that your goal is to finish first to become the season champion.”

“But unfortunately, cannot recommend it as it has a pretty annoying bug which randomly crashes your save file... so you can be playing, be halfway through the storyline and have to do it all over again.”

“This version misses all the DLC content from its console counterparts, is locked to 30 frames per second for some damn reason, has performance issues in forms of stutters and long load times, has a random save corruption issue that usually happens in episode 6, only offers a limited amount of graphical settings, only showing keyboard prompts in menus, and its DRM (SecuROM) is not fully removed but only deactivated which causes issues for community patches.”

“It is unoptimized, has a capped framerate, and I had to struggle to even get the game to recognize an Xbox controller.”

“The game has huge issues with stuttering.”

“Freezes PC in the middle of a race and it's 30 FPS locked with no solution to fix it.”

“This game was absolutely brilliant on my PS3 back when I first got it in 2010, so my question to people at Steam is... why in the hell can you not get anything right??? This port over is just downright not even playable! The game lags and freezes (and no, it's not the spec of my computer because I've got a top-of-the-range gaming rig PC with amazing specs), and yet the game still lags and freezes. Also, there's no DLC for this port so I can't play with my favorite cars, and there's no online play to race against other players. So you have the damn cheek to charge me nearly £20 for this piece of crap that doesn't even work properly! I'll be making a complaint and demanding my money back!”

“The game crashes and has tons of video and audio glitches, and none of the forums I looked into have a way to fix it. A shame — it was one of my favorite games on the PS3, but I guess I shouldn't have bought it for PC since it's so badly ported.”

“Replay value is low once you get to know the maps.”

“Overall, replayability is a little limited, but at just under $20 it’s not a bad deal, right?”

“Really hurts replayability of the campaign too.”

“It gets repetitive and grindy later in the campaign.”

“To finish the career mode would take around eight hours – a couple more if one seeks to finish all bonus events (which, annoyingly, require grinding for a number of wrecks each episode) and to come with the first-place finish on each.”

“On most tracks, the 1st place time is unreachable without dozens of hours of grinding just that single event to figure out the perfectly optimal way to play it.”

“And as if that were not enough, their current idea of a racing game is a re-skinned version of Asphalt 9 with all the usual microtransactions and pay-to-win mechanics.”

“Is this a cash grab?”

“Shame on the developers for advertising this game as a 'racing' game; this piece of trash shares absolutely no similarity with any of the existing good racing games both in terms of mechanics and competitiveness.”