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Pure (Xbox 360)
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RRP: £39.99
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Platform: Xbox 360
Publisher: Disney Interactive
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"Very promising indeed!" - 14 September 2008
After playing the demo on xbox live all I can say is that it is the most fun I have had on a racing game since the first time I played a burnout game! amazing visuals with a great sense of speed and a great soundrack as well as fun yet challenging gameplay which may be for you even if you don't usually enjoy racing games.
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"Pure" - 29 September 2008
So I got this game a few days ago and have been thrashing on it for quite a few hours now, and my impressions of it are very good indeed. The first thing that struck me about the game was that it was completely undemanding, and yet challenging, leaving you with a deep satisfaction - mainly due to the fact that the game is just fun. Fun in the pure meaning of the word. It's one of those games you can just pick up and play for half an hour and just have fun. However, there's also this other aspect to the game which will draw you in over time. An aspect that's very in-depth and logical.
The main part of the game is the world tour allowing you to go all over the world to different countries ranging from Italy to America to New Zealand - over all sorts of different terrains - from grass, to mud, to sand, concrete and more. This mode has you going from track to track simultaneously within the engine category - be it the begining D class engines, slwly building up the extremely fast A and S class engines. As it is, the game slowly gets more and more challenging as you move higher up the ranks and higher up the engine categorys. Before you can start your world tour, you have to create your vehicle. This is no simple creation ranging from a few choice parts and putting them together. The entire bike can be changed and modified ranging from the suspension, bars, wheels, tires, hubs, fans, rests, seat, design, aesthetic cosmetics and everything else. The whole bike has to be made from scratch. On the initial start-up your choice is limited to what you can have - all the different pieces have different effects on how your vehicle performs in the different areas - whether it's tricks, handling, boost, speed, acceleration, etc. As you make your way through the world tour, you unlock even more parts for the vehicle creations and open up new garage slots allowing you to make more and more bikes to fit your personal style of play. When all the pieces are garnered together, there are over 60,000 different possibilities for bikes to make - leaving you with all sorts of different choices.
The gameplay is pretty simple, but not so simple so as to make the game get boring. The handling feels right, and of course your different aspects created on your bike make a big difference to how it works. Similar to SSX from the Playstation 2, you drive around do tricks, land them and get boost. Boost allows you to drive super fast on straights, and getting more boost allows you to do super tricks. The different modes such as freestyle allow you to go around the track over and over again until your fuel levels run out trying to get as many points as possible from doing the tricks. This is all relative, and makes the game extremely fun and something you won't get bored of easily as the number of different trick combinations amount into the thousands. The replay value is also there, getting your times better and better on each track, trying to finish higher than you previously did - and the 100 player online mode is going to be unreal. Tournaments online driving along dirt tracks on all terrain vehicles just seems outrageously fun to me - and the game is.
Really, I can't find any flaws with it at all. The graphics are some of the best yet - with huge ranges of landscape looking over beautiful countryside and vast moutainous regions as you jump hundreds of feet in the air over cliff edges doing absurd tricks. The gameplay is challenging but fun, and the whole thing just feels right. I can't recommend this game highly enough.
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"loads of fun :)" - 10 September 2008
Forget what deano said. This is an excellent demo. the graphics are very good and the game-play is exciting. His recommendation to by a PS3 game instead is a little bit crazy. This review is for a 360 game demo not a PS3 title. Get the demo and be impressed :)
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"Demo is very promising" - 10 September 2008
As with other reviews I can only go by the demo which is top notch. Arcadey handling is spot on as is the risk vs reward. To gain boost you must perform tricks during the jumps. The better and more varied you make these then the more boost you get, however if you crash then you lose a fair chunk of that boost (and the ability to do more complicated tricks). Multiple routes through the course adds to the replayability. Excellent graphics and sounds AND has a promising music track list. Not forgetting 16 players online means that this should be a right hoot. Fingers crossed that it wont go the way of Flatout and get forgotten pretty quickly...
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"Pure heaven!" - 5 September 2008
I downloaded a demo off Xbox live and although limited tracks and race modes, I was blown away by the visuals (you can see for miles...think Assasin's creed in terms of visuals), the tricks were so good, so high (at times)i actually held my breath! The racing speed is quick, as quick as any other game i have played, the variety of racing and/or tricks was well balanced.
From what I have read, and its a lot, you can build your quad from scratch and customise the parts depending on whether you want a racing quad or a quad for tricks - pretty unique as most games just allow you to change the colour!
I can't wait for this game to come out - download it and you'll see what I mean
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"Pure perfection!!" - 17 September 2008
Some websites have just published reviews for "pure" and they range from 8.5 to 9.5.
Yes Motorstorm is a great game but all those nay sayers with PS3 agendas should understand that the games industry moves on.
Ive played the demo of Pure and its pretty damned good.
The graphics are brilliant and the game play is spot on. I like in particular the way you are rewarded for pulling off stunts when you are in the air.Pull off the stunt well and you get extra boosts of speed that could win you the race.
I for one have pre ordered the game. Cant wait!!
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"Get it or miss out!" - 6 September 2008
Now having purchased the game £34.99 , bargain! Ok its not COD4 or GOW2 or even Oblivion but its great fun , so buy and be happy.
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"Brilliant fun!" - 18 September 2008
Pure is brilliant fun. Load times are short. Graphically it's superb and there are no noticeable framerate issues or glitches. There's some banging music too!
The game begins with the same introduction as the demo, where you have to do a lap, perform a trick, boost and so on. Once you've completed that (which you only do once of course, not every time like in the demo!) you're taken to the main menu. Getting started is a breeze. There are tons of customisation options for building a vehicle, or you can just hold down either X or Y to automatically build either a speed racer or a trick racer. It's a great option for people who can't be bothered selecting individual components, but the depth is still there for those that want it.
The trick system is more complex than I first imagined, as you not only build up juice to activate the X and Y button tricks, but you can also use either shoulder button as well to do variations. Tap the analogue stick either up or down twice and you'll do a full somersault. I think they got the balance just right between tricks and boosting. It sounds cliched to say it, but Pure really is one of those games that's easy to pick up and play, but hard to master.
There are a few game modes. I got to try the world tour mode, where you race against the AI opponents, unlocking more tracks, vehicle parts and events as you go. That was great fun. I tried another mode (can't remember the name) where I was driving around the course trying to string together as many tricks as possible to build up points. That was good fun. I didn't get to try the online play, but I believe you can have up to 16 people racing at the same time.
There is plenty of content here - lots of tracks, several riders to choose from, a whole host of customisation options for vehicles. It'll certainly keep you busy for a while trying to unlock all of the achievements.
Negatives? It's a shame there's no split screen local multiplayer, and sometimes the courses can be a little unforgiving causing your rider to fall off just for straying a little too far to the left or right of the track. These really are minor complaints though.
Overall, if you're a fan of arcade style racers, or maybe the SSX games, I think you'll enjoy this a lot. I can't wait to try it online!
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"Cheap Motorstorm Rip-off!" - 5 September 2008
Do yourself a favour and go and buy Motorstorm for the PS3 or at least wait till October to buy it's sequel Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. At least then you will get a quality racer with the fun, stylish and intense experience that Pure fails to offer.
Basically this game has tried to re-create that crazy off-road experience of riding through muddy tracks on a buggy, knocking your opponant to the ground and doing crazy stunts in mid-air that Motorstorm does so well and fails to come anywhere near in terms of quality, graphics and overall experience. Even some of the tracks are the same from Motorstorm, what a rip-off!
The graphics look like some fuzzy rpg game that you might see from a Disney released game rather than the stunning photo-realism you will get in Motorstorm. The controls feel totally off-key and you don't feel like you're on the ground at all rather more like you're just sliding through mud. Some of the in-air stunts are cool but really that is only what this game has to offer different to Motorstorm, other than that it is no more than a cheap rip-off.
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"great fun" - 28 September 2008
in a word this game is brill in every way online great graphics brill and most importantly for me the atv handle just perfectly.i'm not going to ramble on but if your looking for a game buy this.ps this is nothing like motorstorm (which in my opinion was a bad game)
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