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The driving mechanics are solid. It's totally arcade racing, no realism here. Each vehicle you commandeer has its own handling and speed, so it's not as monotonous as it could be. Bigbig mixes it up so you're not only racing in cars, but motorcycles and speedboats, too. The missions vary, some involve taking out an enemy or capturing their vehicles, others consist of tailing a mafia bigwig or racing to the rescue of citizens in peril. It's the perfect pick-up and play type of game, where you could easily sit and play for an hour or for a ten-minute bus ride. There are some missions where you are on foot, and that's where the game stinks. When we first demoed the game a few months back, we were told that it was strictly vehicle based. Somewhere along the way, the developers felt the need for the player to stretch their legs, and it's a totally awkward experience. I want to drive around, shoot bad guys and jump from car to car...not stumble around like a clumsy dope with a gun. They should have left the out-of-vehicle moments out of the game; they don't add anything to the experience. The graphics are solid. There's a cartoon feel to Pursuit Force that works with the exaggerated action. The loudmouth Police Chief is constantly yelling at you, either giving you backhanded compliments when you do good or berating you when you fail.Read full review
----- Name of Game: Pursuit Force Platform: PSP ----- Core Ratings: Gameplay: 3/5 Graphics: 3/5 Audio: 2/5 Movie Sequences: 1/5 It takes a special person to like this game. Pursuit Force is strictly combat racing with the occasional on-foot encounter. You will have the opportunity to use different vehicles, enemy and friend alike. Trucks, sports carts, boats, the works. Each mission you undertake specifically involves bringing bad guys down. The good part about this game is that it provides variation in enemies and each enemy, looks, acts and fights differently. You are graded on performance (based off of points collected in the mission by accomplishing and not accomplishing certain things) for each mission which provides for various levels of difficultly. By allowing you to earn your own grade, you are in charge of the difficultly level. That, by no means, says that this is an easy game if all you want to do is get crappy scores. In fact, even a "C" is sometimes difficult to obtain and it takes several attempts (if not an hour worth of attempts) to get the grade that you want. What types of missions are there, you ask? You can generally expect to be chasing down some enemy or protecting some ally from an enemy and all of that requires "racing" to some objective. What's so hard about that? Most levels are time-based, in fact, all levels are somehow related to time. Whether you are trying to get to the airport in two minutes or protecting the mayor from a hit, you only have a specified amount of time before you lose. There are NO second chances throughout the level. If you lose, then you start over from the checkpoint or the beginning. Other modes that I didn't experiment with as much as I did the "career" mode were the "time trial" and "race" modes. Each mode has it's own advantage but what makes Pursuit Force amazing is how quickly the career mode can suck you in. It doesn't have a particularly great storyline (if one at all) but the audio and graphics were decent enough to ignore that little comment. I would probably recommend this game to someone who doesn't like to commit to games. It's definitely a pick up game that you grab at some point and then put down at another point. I suppose that would be another good aspect of this game; no matter when or where you put this game down, you'll always come back and be able to play it as if you never walked away. That's also probably the bad part. Pursuit Force, as much fun as it is, often leaves me walking away from it rather than staying to play. We would strongly recommend that you somehow try the game before you purchase it, mostly because we're not even sure we want to keep it and we have a lot of games and UMDs that have come out for the PSP. But, if you have to purchase it, you'll find comfort in the fact that it will at least keep your attention for a little while.Read full review
Graphics, sounds, and game play are great!! Very addicting with non-stop action. It can be a bit frustrating at times, and you lose out on precious time when you can't control a certain vehicle (going too fast) such as the motorcycle. Controls are fairly easy to navigate. Very cool concept game. 5 different gangs (Capelli's, Warlords, Convicts, Vixen, and Killer66) that you hunt down; and each gang has 6 stages. For the price $12-$17 delivered (new) is a total bargain. Great replay value as well. I highly recommend getting this for your PSP.
Pursuit Force for PSP is a fantastic game, that I would highly recommend to any PSP owner who has a penchant for action and racing games. To me, it can best be sumarized as an excellent blend of Sega's seminal arcade to console games, Virtua Cop and Outrun. The presnentation is fnatasitc, and there's lots of value and replayability thanks to time attack modes in addition to the main "Story Mode". There's a phot and video gallery that is unlocked as the player progresses through the game. Personally, I can't wait for the recently annoiunced sequel.
there are shooting,racing,police officers,robbers,lots action very fun game for young boys keep busy for hours at a time.grandson got for his 13 birthday he loves it very much.fun game.you,ll want to purchace it.
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