Pursuit Force is basically if they made an entire game out of those Hollywood blockbuster car chase scenes, and it turns out to be a pretty fun game, with some annoyances holding it back.
In the main campaign mode you'll be taking on 5 gangs, each representing the biggest threats to civilized society: the mob, military LARPers, loose convicts, karens, and the yakuza. In case you didn't notice, this is a very dumb game, but in a fun way. You'll be mostly killing a bunch of them bad dudes while on a high speed vehicle, set on a linear pathway of roads. It's mostly about completing the objectives while surviving against the onslaught of gunfire. If your vehicles gets too damaged, you can hop on an enemy vehicle, take them down and get on the driver's seat to continue the mission. There's also non-vehicle sections like on-foot third person shooting, or the helicopter turret sections, which are decent enough to make the missions feel more dynamic. At its best, the game's missions are bite-sized helpings of over-the-top adrenaline rush.
The game definitely gets more hectic as you progress, although the difficulty progression is not necessarily linear. Enemies in the later missions can jump on your vehicles and go right for your jugular, and this can be pretty annoying since there's usually not enough room on the roads to swerve around and throw them off. It also gets harder to manage your health, since the quickest way to get health is by filling up a bar by doing enough enemy takedowns and such, and you can lose points on said bar by hitting or hurting civilian vehicles. It can be very hard when there's like 2-3 other enemy vehicles hitting you into the civilians. Not to mention there's no checkpoint system here, even for the longer missions. It's not exactly insurmountable odds, but it does feel hella frustrating sometimes.
There's also 2 boss fights for each gang, and I can't say that these are as exciting as they should be. I think the best one is the final mob boss fight, which is one of the earliest boss fight you can do. The boss fights don't exactly ramp up in an interesting way, they usually just have more annoying elements to them, like having a lot of adds tailing them. This doesn't mean that they're no fun, but I do think it could have been done much better.
There isn't really a story here, it's just about you taking down a bunch of gangs without an overarching plot. I do feel annoyed that most of the game's dialogues are just people shit talking you, even from your own boss. Some of the gangs also have questionable accents, which at the very least is a bit distracting.
That's basically it for the main campaign. There's also race and time trial modes, which are just fine. The port/emulation job for the PS5 version is pretty nice, the up-res graphics looks good and the rewind feature is very helpful. I also got the platinum trophy in just about 6 hours. I had a good time with this, and I would love to see Sony bring more of their old forgotten franchises back.
In the main campaign mode you'll be taking on 5 gangs, each representing the biggest threats to civilized society: the mob, military LARPers, loose convicts, karens, and the yakuza. In case you didn't notice, this is a very dumb game, but in a fun way. You'll be mostly killing a bunch of them bad dudes while on a high speed vehicle, set on a linear pathway of roads. It's mostly about completing the objectives while surviving against the onslaught of gunfire. If your vehicles gets too damaged, you can hop on an enemy vehicle, take them down and get on the driver's seat to continue the mission. There's also non-vehicle sections like on-foot third person shooting, or the helicopter turret sections, which are decent enough to make the missions feel more dynamic. At its best, the game's missions are bite-sized helpings of over-the-top adrenaline rush.
The game definitely gets more hectic as you progress, although the difficulty progression is not necessarily linear. Enemies in the later missions can jump on your vehicles and go right for your jugular, and this can be pretty annoying since there's usually not enough room on the roads to swerve around and throw them off. It also gets harder to manage your health, since the quickest way to get health is by filling up a bar by doing enough enemy takedowns and such, and you can lose points on said bar by hitting or hurting civilian vehicles. It can be very hard when there's like 2-3 other enemy vehicles hitting you into the civilians. Not to mention there's no checkpoint system here, even for the longer missions. It's not exactly insurmountable odds, but it does feel hella frustrating sometimes.
There's also 2 boss fights for each gang, and I can't say that these are as exciting as they should be. I think the best one is the final mob boss fight, which is one of the earliest boss fight you can do. The boss fights don't exactly ramp up in an interesting way, they usually just have more annoying elements to them, like having a lot of adds tailing them. This doesn't mean that they're no fun, but I do think it could have been done much better.
There isn't really a story here, it's just about you taking down a bunch of gangs without an overarching plot. I do feel annoyed that most of the game's dialogues are just people shit talking you, even from your own boss. Some of the gangs also have questionable accents, which at the very least is a bit distracting.
That's basically it for the main campaign. There's also race and time trial modes, which are just fine. The port/emulation job for the PS5 version is pretty nice, the up-res graphics looks good and the rewind feature is very helpful. I also got the platinum trophy in just about 6 hours. I had a good time with this, and I would love to see Sony bring more of their old forgotten franchises back.