Shack Preview: Pursuit Force

Bring back Road Rash!!!

They sent me a demo of this. I wish I could play it, but I value my 1.5 firmware more.

What's gratifying about the maneuvre is that it's not actually death-defying; you'll make it every single time, and that works in the game's favor

I disagree. When it's such a simple thing to pull off, it becomes just another part of the routine for completing a mission. Assuming you give up on shooting the cars up or you get on to one of the missions that has bullet-proof cars, and it's the only real way to progress. I can't suggest how to implement it to make it more fun whilst retaining the ease of use, but knowing that it's possible even if the car turns a 90 degree corner and yours crashes in to a wall is pushing it.

My biggest problem with it is that the longer missions are broken in to pieces (eg Rail shooting segment, driving segment, foot segment, driving segment), and there's no resume - you have to do it again from the start. It gets pretty frustrating, although in it's favour there's often another mission you can do, so rather than quit in frustratio there's the option to switch mission.

Ultimately, I traded it in because it got too repetitive. It's not terrible, but as a full price game it didn't really offer enough to make me want to finish it, or even replay any of the missions. Also, Smackdown vs Raw came out about two weeks later, so there was something worth trading it in for.

Another racing game? like we don't already have enough

This game was so much fun at E3. Jumping from vehicle and shooting another dude...it was righteous.

.[What happens to the official law enforcement vehicle you've just discarded? This is not the sort of game in which that matters.]/

ahaha awesome.