Having said that, Pursuit Force is not a forgiving game.
Yes, developers have tweaked it a bit to make certain missions a little friendlier, but it's still a decidedly "hardcore" game. Anyone who tinkered with the European release knows exactly how irritatingly difficult this game can get. And it does so early on too, so there's little adjustment time. The US release benefits from an all-new checkpoint system, not to mention slightly friendlier opposition. Problem is that some of the later stages are still pretty long, and for whatever reason some of them still don't have any checkpoints. Most of the earlier missions have them, at least the lengthy ones do, but that's not the case later on. It's an intentional omission, but one that certain editors, err, gamers won't like much.
