Disney Interactive's Pure will be released in Europe this week on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and here are the First 10 Minutes from the game; as usual in video form. The game has given me some of the most fun play sessions this console generation (both in singleplayer and multiplayer) and there's no reason for racing fans to miss out on this fantastic game.
The developers, Black Rock Studio, has done some great work with the graphics engine. The framerate is steady and the game looks really good. The racers feel alive with their taunts and constant moving on the ATVs, even though I was surprised to hear how annoyed people were with the chants between the characters in the demo.
The World on Tour career mode is pretty straight-forward, you enter tournaments and earn parts for your ATV. There are three different modes, and my favourite is easily the sprint mode - small tracks, not that many jumps and really intense driving. Race offers longer tracks and more big jumps, while Freestyle is trick-based and has power-ups placed throughout the courses. It's here where people might be disappointed, since there are not more modes to choose from - specially as race and sprint are pretty similar. I say: better to have few good modes than tons of boring modes that you have to force your way through in a career mode. Other than the World Tour mode you also have the classic racing modes, time trial and single event.
I have to give the game a major thumbs up for the customization mode. I'm often turned-off by how some games just throws in tons of parts without telling you how they work and what they do. Here, when you get new parts it tells you how it's better and how it's worse compared to what you have on your current bike (more acceleration, less trick for example). There's also tons of different parts to add to your bike, which you then can use in the multiplayer mode.
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Still, features-wise, its basically not as huge as MotorStorm 2. I think its a great game for thrill-based racing fans, although I've read in most reviews that it only revolves around down-hill thrill-rides, that's all(Much like PS2's excellent Downhill Domination)..., like me to tag us over till the real off-road king "MotorStorm 2" is released...
Loved the demo! These tracks look crazy!
I haven't played it but from all the things I've learned, I just couldn't place on my finger on it... silly me, I had to write so much to make my point above...
Anyhoo... the game has an ultra cool gfx-engine and customizations appear to be real fun as well.
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I'm really looking forward to playing this game... hopefully GAME will send this tomorrow so I get it for Thursday (360 version). Then there's Wipeout HD the same day for the PS3... it's certainly going to be a great week for games! :D
Anyway back to LittleBigPlanet beta! Thanks Eurogamer! Muhahaha!
I'd also like to know if there's some way to disable the camera tweaks when you perform tricks, because that totally pulls me right out of the should-be dizzying experience of being rediculously high up in the air.
And btw, it's got nothing to do with Motorstorm, it's a game about ATV and ATV's only.