I’ve been playing Pure on and off for the last week or so now and ready to give my impressions on the game. Pure revolves around racing with an off-road quad bike with many jumps that allow you to do stunts. Depending on your hangtime, you can do more stunts or advanced ones that fill your turbo boost meter. Use the turbo boost and you’ll go faster, but your turbo boost meter will decrease. Thus, the game revolves around pulling off successful stunts in the air so that you can boost when you’re on the ground. Mess up a stunt in the air and landing on your face will result in a good chunk of your boost meter decreased. This is the game in a nutshell, and there are varied tracks around the world to race through.
The game also has a relatively strong focus on customizing your quad-bike with various parts that affect stats such as max speed, acceleration, handling, etc. I wasn’t a big fan of the parts interface, as it made replacing and upgrading parts a bit confusing so I often used the option of “quick-building” my quad-bike whenever I felt there were new parts to choose from. From what I hope, the quick-building feature automatically puts a quad-bike together and uses the best parts.
I haven’t gotten around to online yet, and most likely never will since I’m not exactly an online racing game fan, but for the most part I’ll say that Pure is a good game if you are a fan of the genre. I’m not a big racing game fan, so the minimal gameplay features had me a bit bored after a while. After I played the first couple of races, I wondered, “Why bother playing through to the rest of the races if the gameplay is the same but it’s just a different track?” I guess one can make that argument about any game, but for a racing game, it’s different because you’re not exactly gaining new gameplay depth or storyline from continuing. There’s nothing really enticing you to go through Pure except if you just like racing. And if you do, you will most likely enjoy the game.
To be fair, I pick up Pure and play a few tracks every once in a while when I have limited gameplaying time because it’s fun in short bursts, but I can’t see myself sitting through a whole afternoon of it.
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