Pursuit Force Reviews

Pursuit Force nails the feeling of being a police action movie very well. Criminals who won't stop at anything, a diverse set of missions to undertake and it's full of cheesy humour. I will compliment the game for that, but unfortunately that will also be the only compliment I can give. The developers took the police theme inspiration probably too literally, particularly the 'only got one chance' part. The difficulty is extremely punishing and not in a fun way. Everything has to be done pixel-perfect and within a time limit, and if you are unable to do that you will fail the mission guaranteed. Now I don't mind a bit of trial and error, but this game does not have a checkpoint system, and missions are pretty long. This means that you'll constantly be retrying missions that are easily over 5 minutes long, just to fail near the end. And the worst part is that you have to beat every mission before you are able to unlock the next ones, so not only will you have to retry constantly, but you also can't continue the story. The missions also have grades and unlock cheats at the highest grade. Great, now I can use them in unfinished missions to make it easier for myse- oh wait, I can't use cheats on unfinished missions. What. How do you even mess up the cheats. And it truly is a shame because I enjoyed the jumping between cars, hijacking them and shooting criminals while driving. But with a game this punishing, it was not meant to be. There are some alternative modes with one being a racing mode. Cool I'd say.. but it takes away the core mechanic of Pursuit Force (jumping between vehicles and shooting) and leaves an empty, soulless driving mode. The driving in this game is nothing special, so a whole mode dedicated to that is just a waste of effort. There is a sequel to this game which I will still try out, hoping it has improved on this game. The concept is good, the execution is completely ruined by the difficulty.