PURE (Sarah Ab Kadir)
STEP ASIDE TRAVIS PASTRANA.
Time for me to bewilder you with my awesome aerial stunts that I can accomplish with my freakking virtual fantasy.
So judging from the cover, you get the whole idea already. The only thing fucking up the whole game is seeing the Disney trademark on the bottom right corner of the cover. Or else it would've still been cool. Thing is, you gotta play this game with cool songs in the background like music from Limp Bizkit, Puddle of Mudd, Nirvana, Ramones, Saliva, Korn etc etc etc, you get my drift.
So what is this game about?
So basically, this game is about being extremely cool. Extending my theory, I'd say, Pure is an arcade off-road racing game with an incredible graphics engine that takes ATV races to another level by exaggerating the natural human limits. The lighting effects are top of the line, along with other visual details such as moving grass, smoking exhaust pipes, and deformable track surfaces. Yeah, you heard me, the terrain surface is fully deformable, but only visually. The whole picture suits with Motorstorm graphics, but here the developers emphasized a lot on the detailed aspect of every track. With every graphical option set at its highest scale, you can see clouds of dust behind the opponents, cameras flashes, birds flying, water and mud that splashes. Yes, you can admire the birds flying because most of the time you will perform extremely high jumps that forces you to perform insane tricks. Hehe. Every landing is followed by another extreme jump influenced by your speed and by how much can you flex the suspension in order to take off as high as possible.
Every completed jump trick will increase the turbo meter which unlocks new series of tricks which increases the turbo meter much more. Each races starts only with level 1 tricks available. Perform enough tricks and you will gain access to level 2 tricks, and then to level 3 tricks. Level 3 tricks are followed by special level tricks which demand higher jumps to be performed. Every trick has four directional axes in which the movement can be performed. By combining the axes you get improved tricks for each level, but they tend to be hard to be performed from the keyboard due to long button sequences that can sum up to 5 pushed buttons in a single trick. The game was definitely not meant for the PC from this point of view, but if you use the basic tricks including the ones from level 3, you will earn enough boost to win the race.
After 20 races you will get sick of the same tracks, although everyone is an eye-candy opera. Following the classical arcade approach, every track features short-cuts and short secondary routes, but no track features an extremely high complexity. A couple of laps are enough to familiarize yourself with every aspect of any of the tracks and to exploit it at the maximum.
What makes the game so compelling?
Errr... okay well I guess it's quite compelling/fun cause you get to choose whether you wanna be a male or female competitor. Just to prove that 'X games' like these can be played by females as well so stop being chauvanistic! The character is already preset with a few options, all dressed(all looking cool so dont worry if you think they look ugly or anything). You get to build your ATV's from scratch though. That's pretty cool cause you get to customize your drive and then screenshot it and show it to your cyber girlfriend when she comes online.
Is it hard?
I wouldn't exactly say its hard. Like I said previously, you'll probably get sick of the rounds by the 20th race, because you'll get familiar with the race-tracks and you'd know where to drift, how to jump whether to boost or not at certain levels or anything. Pretty much similar to Burnout.
Try not to fucking scan your eyes to the bottom left hand corner of the cover as well. Totally don't agree with it cause my 3 year old cousins EAT THE CONTROLLER. They don't use it and play the game, they simply attempt to devour the xbox controllers. So yeah, PURE is somewhat similar to Burnout, just that it's a different type of vehicle altogether.
Limitations?
Ok once again, the title of the game does not describe the game at all. And I think that is a very important aspect to a game. You need to know what exactly the game is about just by reading the title of the game. Clearly there is no meaning to it so potential buyers will most likely just breeze through the racks and overlook this game. That is possibly the reason why this game was given as a free game when you purchase an XboxElite console. Other than that, I've only began playing this game so I can't find major setbacks about this game just yet.
In a wrap?
This game comes free by purchasing the XboxElite package. So that's kind of the only reason why I played the game. Other than that, I really don't think I would've given this game a chance considering I already have a game like Burnout(Extreme) to wreck my anger out on. Though the graphics are superb and you will feel really cool, I'd give this game two popcorns.
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