If you want a crazy new experience in a cooperative adventure game, wait just a little bit until March! Split Fiction is a new project from the authors of It Takes Two and A Way Out. Hazelight Studios is developing a new action-adventure game.
You’ll find the hectic nature of multiplayer with increasing obstacles but a complete sense of cohesion with the person you’re playing with. The Blix team will tell you why Split Fiction is a game worth waiting for.
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Highlights
- A review of an upcoming Hazelight Studios game called Avowed
Split Fiction Review
Game Story
On Thursday, February 13, at the State of Play, Split Fiction developers from Hazelight Studios revealed a new trailer that better showed the characters and backstory of the main characters.
In the game, you will play on behalf of one of the writers, Zoe or Mio. They both accept a tech company deal and participate in a VR experiment that creates simulations based on the user’s memories and subconscious mind. The women, unfamiliar with each other, must team up and get out of this dangerous experiment.
Mio, a science fiction lover in turmoil, enters Zoe’s simulation bubble and is transported to her fantasy world. This plot was a great move to build the interesting world of Split Fiction and allow the science fiction and fantasy settings to come together.
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What Sets Split Fiction Apart from Other Cooperative Games?
The clever integration of multiple gameplay styles makes up the game’s main peppercorn. Split Fiction aims to enhance the cooperative experience with its genre-bending journey through the power of fiction and notice that they succeed at it.
You’ll see a wide variety of gameplay styles in Split Fiction, and even in the short time you spend playing it, it’s clear that this isn’t just a standard two-person puzzle game.
Here, the heroines need to get out of an active snowboarding war zone, and you get a scoring mechanic to compete with your partner. And here you are, already together, dodging enemy ships on a destroyed planet. The action then takes you to a Tolkien-esque town overrun by trolls, and it’s your job to remain undetected.
In one scene, Mio and Zoe ride a motorcycle while trying to evade the police in a cyberpunk-style city. One partner drives the bike, while the other uses his strength to fend off attacks.
In other words, the various mechanics, which are so perfectly worked out and combined in one gameplay, will amaze you.
At a time when every game can be played alone or is wholly filled with NPCs or people online, playing Split Fiction alone isn’t an option. The game raises the bar of cooperative experience to a new level.
Game director Josef Fares said it took some trial and error to ensure that the story and quest sequences were carefully crafted and looked good.
Other Features
On top of Split Fiction’s already intense main plot, there are also additional side stories in the narrative in small portals that transport you away from the main game. This is an excellent evolution of the It Takes Two mini-games – as the stories themselves feel more like mini-levels than side entertainment.
With many mechanics and side stories, Split Fiction won’t seem boring or monotonous, and the plot on the edge of science fiction and fantasy world skillfully changes pace from over-the-top to standard.
Split Fiction is noticeably more complex than It Takes Two. It has many moments where timing and coordination are paramount, and at times, it is quite challenging to keep track of everything that is going on and who is doing what.
On the other hand, Split Fictions is generous with checkpoints, so even though you’ll probably die often, you won’t be stuck in a rut for the same task.
Conclusion
Split Fiction looks to be a great sequel to It Takes Two so far. It really ups the scale and spectacle of cooperative action.
The project is scheduled for release on March 6, 2025, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles and Windows. Pre-orders are already available on Steam—the title price is $49.99.
