A FICTIONAL WORLD OF FRIENDSHIPS

Once every few years, EA publishes a game so great that I forgive them for making the mistake of creating FIFA.

- Anusha Ganapathi

Once every few years, EA publishes a game so great that I forgive them for making the mistake of creating FIFA. This year, we have been blessed with Split Fiction. It's a game about an unlikely friendship between two writers with entirely different stories to tell. At the beginning, Zoe and Mio are unpublished authors entering a shady lab in a swanky office building for what they believe is their big break.

Unfortunately, for them, huge orb machines await them. They suck their brain juices for ideas by pushing them into a virtual reality of their own imagination. Very subtle metaphor for AI, don't you think?

To make things worse, they somehow get shoved into the same orb, which fractures it, so the virtual reality shows them bits of both their stories. Split Fiction. Get it?