Let’s face the truth. I died a lot in Split Fiction when I played with my partner at a preview party organized by Hazelight and Electronic Arts. But I got here back and went back to the fight. And I actually liked my time with the Adventure Action Adventure game.
Split fiction, appears on PC consoles and computers on March 6, 2025 for $ 50. But I needed to try it for several hours, and I also interviewed Josef Fares, the founding father of the award -winning Hazelight studio, after playing in the game.
Sitting on the couch with my partner, the game began with the humor of several authors of books who didn’t hit it immediately. You play as Mio and Zoe-Dwór authors, one science fiction, one fantasy. They are like oil and vinegar when it involves personality. But they are dropped into a common disaster. Only working together – with one player helping the other – they’ll get out of it.
They each visit a simulation technology company in which they were promised a publishing contract. The writers are trapped in their very own stories after they were connected to a machine designed by the bad book “Simulation” that desires to steal his creative ideas.
To escape with their intact minds, they need to overcome their differences to interrupt down the system that holds them. A difficult part is learning to work together, said Fares in an interview with Gamesbeat. Mio is not particularly friendly, but it has an accurate, skeptical instinct towards the company’s intention. Zoe is much more trusting and is ready to simply accept any anesthesia to be published.
Luckily, he enters the platform when the machine prompts the bubble, which puts it in some sort of sleep stagnation – and begins to extract stories from its head. But Mio resists and wants to depart. A foul CEO won’t let her, she fights with her, and she falls into the bubble of Zoe. They deal with the same fantasy world, and Mio appeared in the world of Zoe’s history by a fault. They begin to search out a way out, following the fault, which alternately takes them into various fantasy worlds or science fiction.
The game begins quite easy, but during each meeting/puzzle/fight it took us a few attempts to get time to fight and move. It wasn’t very difficult because we never got stuck for a very long time. But sometimes one player had to maneuver the other through a given fight scene.
It was early to learn to play quickly. I saw that many interactivity was coded in color. If there have been purple leaves that were intended for MIO, so I needed to hit my right bumper in the controller to make use of my grabbing hook to quickly fly through the space. If he was green, he was intended for the second player, in this case, to make use of his controller so that Zoe would do something. You can run around the partitions like in Titanfall, and you may jump on the rail and slide down, because it takes two in IT.
More difficult fights were observed in a few hours, in which it took us a lot of time to go through the battles. We liked how difficulty step by step increased in the game. Humor of the Pig Side Quest was disgusting in a charming way-Mio flies with a fucked up atom, while Zoe climbs next to it. I at all times liked, like every battle, it was that Mio is doing one thing, and Zoe does one other – and the victory only goes through cooperation in the fight against enemies.
As you almost certainly know, divided games are very difficult until the day. It’s like using one game console to display two different games at the same time on the same screen. This moves calculation resources to the limit, and the programmer must reduce the quality of the graphics to take care of a double variety of frames per second. Fortunately, because of the animated variety of the game, the quality looks pretty good because it is based on Unreal Engine 5 Epic Games.
Hazelight also has many veterans working on the game. The tariffs began with the brothers: a story about two sons, moving stories about two brothers. Hazelight followed this (about two prisoners in Jailbreak) in 2018. In 2021, Hazelight won the match of the yr in a divided screen game, which takes two, about a few on the verge of divorce. I played every game, but I have not reached the end yet. Along the way, Hazelight worked with the originals of EA and they have a formula and a rare ability to inform a story that is moving, funny and filled with originality of the game.
Split fiction’s has a variety of always changing mechanics that keeps each players on the fringe of the couch. Both Mio and Zoe must recognize scenes based on their stories that the simulation is visualized as virtual worlds. And they need to go through lush fantasy and science fiction spaces.
You have to do things like being transformed with a fish button button to swim through a fantasy stream. Zoe must use a magnetic arm to download boxes and throw them on attacking flying police cars. Mio must go to fight with soldiers and break with a cybernetic sword. They have to ride on hoverboards through the desert sands and surf around sand sharks from something like Dune. I know that there might be more surprises in the game, but I’m not going to spoil them.
Part of the narrative in the game is that Mio and Zoe do not get along at the starting, but they learn that they are only hope. The heroes will in some way change through their journey. And they have to learn more about themselves when they go on – and overcome problems together.
I asked Fares if you’d ever have the option to play as a human player, combined with the AI character. Fares said that it might be a plain game for a single player who wouldn’t be so funny, because your partner AI can not likely behave like a real man.
“If it is not rinsed, not repair,” he said.
Will this game be price 50 USD? Surely. This is a 15-hour game that is very funny so far. And this is one other title that would win an increasingly creating variety of awards, many awards.
