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basically, one of two good games for the PSP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased a PSP , absolutely amazed by all the features and expandability.

THe PSP is good for everything, except games. Until now.

I tried so many games to tremendous dissapointment. THe graphics on many were fine (GTA liberty city stories, wipeout pure) but others were terrible outright (the con, the hustle: detroit streets, gripshift, frantix)

Pursuit Force is FUN - actually, its the best racer game out there too (which is weird...) So if you get it for the storyline-gameplay you will not be dissapointed. Its very reminiscent of 80's arcade games, but has checkpoints to prevent re-doing too much of the game.

If you are used to putting your game in sleep mode and doing something else (like me) you will have a bit of trouble since it wont allow you to do it unless you are actually in the middle of the action.

Pursuit force cannot dissapoint. I just wish it were longer. Sequel anyone?

*Just for your information, the other good game out there for PSP is Siphon Filter: Dark Mirror. The Brotherhood of the Blade series isnt bad, but the tedium can get to you.

Pursuit Force is an amazing addition to the racing-action genre, which saw a few successful games in the past. What makes this game so wonderful is the thrill of it - the ability to jump from vehicles to other ones, and the positioning of camera angles to create a grand effect. Pursuit Force has no plot other than you are an elite cop trained to pursue five infamous gangs until they leave your city.
And you get to accomplish this in style. Gameplay is divided into gangs, which are case files. You must finish missions with various ratings in order to move up within the force, and to take on new gangs. You are provided with the Equalizer, the police weapon. Once you are on the road, you hop aboard other vehicles and take the enemies guns, allowing for a wide variety of automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
The jumping from car to car is unique, well made and exciting. You have to time your jump sometimes a little more than others, but once you have locked it in; you can be a mile away and still complete the action. If your police bar is full, you can slowly jump down, slaughtering the enemies before you even steal their vehicle. Too cool. So much for your college essays when this game is before you.
The levels get very hard after you beat the first few gangs, but some alternative modes begin to open up in order to take breaks from the main Career mode. You get to race the other gangs, or free race against the clock. Both are fantastic addition to Pursuit Force since they are on their own worth getting the game. The racing feel of Pursuit is very realistic, without knocking off FPS, you get to feel the speed of the action. Replay is fun, and as you get better and better, you unlock more tracks, cheats and videos.
Although the main career mode is short, most PSP games are. You are given other things to do, so the game is a real value. The controls are perfect since the game was built around the PSP controls - it's not a transcription of another console's game. The land vehicles feel a lot more fun to drive than the boats, partly because the boats are so bogged down by the realities of water.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes racing games, but also like shooter games. This game is an amazing and innovative combination of the two.

GRAPHICS: 7/10 (The few cutscenes are awesome. Overall great graphics. I am hoping for a sequel.)

SOUND: 7/10 (Some levels have great soundtracks, others don't.)

CONTROLS: 9/10 (No issue with controls. The game was made for PSP, so the controls feel right. Cars handle beautifully; boats maybe less so.)

DIFFICULTY: 10/10 (Ultra hard. Its fun though; you will die, and sometimes three or four times, before you finish a level.)

LOAD TIMES: MEDIUM (Load times are not bad - not very low either. You will not be able to put the PSP into sleep mode during a load or menu screen.)

OVERALL: 9/10 (Amazing game, and great replay value. It doubles as one of PSP's best racer games as well.)

Lots of fun..... While it lasts...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game features Career mode, Race Mode, and Time Challenge Mode. It also has a gallery (great for showing the graphics off to your friend!)

Pros: Great Graphics, Lots of Fun, different vehicles (boat, helicopter, cars, Busses, trucks), and good gameplay. However, there are some Flaws... Great loading times!

Cons: For some reason, I thought that jumping off of cars would be hard :( Once you jump, you never miss, no matter how far away the might've gotton in the time you get out of ur car to the time you jump onto their car. Also, when you shoot, you can never miss! It aims automatically, which can be helpful at times. The loading times weren't bad at all, and are very fast. However, the thing that really pissed me off, is that there's no sleep mode... If you don't know what that means, it's that you can't turn of your PSP, and then play it w/out starting over. The only place where there is sleepmode is during the mission.

The music matches the game, and the different modes keep you entertained for a while. Another bad thing about this game is that it has very little replay value. Once you beat the game, it isn't fun to go back and try to get an A just to see a picture (gallery)

I would reccomend this for anyone, kids and adults, hardcore gamers and casual gamers, because it is an excellent game while it lasts.

Great action game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This in my opinion is the best psp game yet!! I just love jumping right of your car on to the bad guys cars or any kind of vehicle. You never miss when firing which is a cool feature. The only down side is that it is not able to go into sleepmode unless your right in the action. The whole consecpt is to jump onto one guys car kill the guy in it. Take his car and drive around untill you find another car to jump on or boat or any vehicle. That's the basic concept. Thier is also land mission where you can get on foot and kill all the bad guys. List of pros and cons.

Pros:
1.Awsome acion consept
2.Great graphics
3.Tons of missions
4.(land and drive missions also)
5.lots of weapons to use

Cons:
1. no multiplayer
2. Can't go into sleep mode (at somtimes)

Bottom line it's a great game very reccomended!

Awesome action film in your hands

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite honestly highly entertaining. It feels like you are playing the role of a super cop in a Summer Blockbuster Action film jumping from vehicle to vehicle and gunning down the bad guys. Included are racing games and time trials to extend the action game play. Personally, I give it fours stars for me but for the "action junky" I'd safely give it a five stars. I'm impressed with how polished this game is too... Nothing to complain about as far as graphics, sound, load times, etc...

Fun at first, but not enough to it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Gotta be short and sweet since I'm at work. While the gameplay in innovative and very much fun at first, once you get past the fact that you're slo-mo jumping from one car to another, and then trying to do the same with the next car in line, it just gets old quick. There is no aiming your weapon, or any other skill techniques for that matter. You press one button to automatically jump onto another car, you hold R trigger to lock on and fire. Sometimes it's cars, sometimes trucks, sometimes boats, but they all work basically the same. I wouldn't pay over $20 for it.

why can't they incorporate this kind of moves on some other action games.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are pretty good, specially some of the movie cuts to setup the story. Game is a mix of driving game, shooter, and just plain fun. The controls are pretty easy to learn. Action is continous, no wasting time with setting up the story line..just that you are cop and you must do what you captain wants to bring law and order to the city. Only negative is that you can't turn off the power (sleep mode) in the middle of load screen. You have to be with in the game to get the psp to sleep mode. Overall- great game.

A Nice Surprise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I actually bought this game used at Game Stop for $10 or $15 bucks. I'm glad I picked it up. Pursuit Force is a fun and action-packed police game that really gets your attention.

In Career mode you work your way up the hierarchy from an officer to a sergent to a captain. As you complete missions more are opened up for you. Mission include stopping an enemy from reaching a certain point, or protecting a convoy/mayor/informant, to shooting your way through obstacles. Some assignments incorporate more than one, and those are awesome!

Game play is pretty simple. You walk or drive, shoot, dodge, and jump onto other cars. It takes a few tries to coordinate yourself, but once you do it's fine. What I don't like is the lack of options when wanting to change controls. You only get two options, and don't get to set the buttons the way that best works for you. A drawback but you get used to it.

Another is that you don't get to choose weapons. You simply hold the "shoot" button, and when you run out of ammunition the weapon changes on its own. The positive is that you don't have to waste time collecting ammo or worry about running out of weapons at a critical moment. The negative is that some guns shoot much slower than others, or have a limited amount of bullets, and it takes a second when the weapons have to change. But again, you get used to it.

The cars are very specific in their type of handling. SUVs drive like SUVs, sports cars like sports cars, etc. The boats though....well, I hate trying to drive the boats. Maybe that's how they handle in real life?

They aren't a lot of mode choices for game play. Career mode is the by far the best, what with the creative scenarios and various mission requirements. As you progress in the game each mission gets more complex. Time trial is just you driving through a stage for no real purpose. A free range mode where you can just run around and arrest bad guys or chase bank robbers would be great, but oh well. You also have race mode, which isn't too bad. There are various missions with this as well, but basically you race other folks for whatever reason (to get the atmom bomb, to reach a witness, etc.). It's a good mode for, say, when you're waiting in the doc's office or something.

All in all this game truly is fun. There's even a sequel coming out in 2008. So if you like action games, and love police plots, I think you can't really go wrong with this one.

Crazy shoot em up fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Decent graphics, nice plot, cool options to go from vehicle to vehicle like Grand Theft and Driver 3. Don't send more than $20.

Really good violent racer for psp

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was one of my first games for the psp when i got it at christmas time around a month ago. I like this game because for being on a hand-held it has pretty good graphics and sound. I love how you can jump from car-to-car and if you have enough points you can jump in slow motion and shoot the drivers and passangers(you can do that anyway but its cooler in slo-mo). Its a pretty long game because ive played it for no less than 4 hours and it says im about 37% through the game.

I got this game for christmas for around $19.00 brand new on ebay. I think for being brand new that, that is a very good price. I think its worth max. $20 but not really much more than that. So if your looking for a cheap shooter/racer pick this game up soon.

Fun in full force

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Perfect hand held game. Missions sizes are perfect for a quick play or a full blown night out. Excellent controls, wonderful graphics, great execution.

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