OK. So, the game concept starts off easy -- Burnout meets Chase HQ, with guns. Then somebody in the room goes, "What if we get bored driving one car for too long?" As if a game that combines high-speed racing, cop chases, and gunplay can get boring ... and yet, the people in the room agree. So, the team adds the ability to leap the #^&% out of your vehicle while you are moving at 150 miles per hour.
OK. So, that's where the concept begins...
Honestly, I was hot for SCE Europe's Pursuit Force when I saw the screenshots and read the concept, but I still wasn't anywhere near prepared for playing this game. It is insane. The game has not been announced for a US release yet (it's currently only officially coming to Europe), but we're sure this game will get here through some publisher, because it's absolute bananas. And what's most mind-kicking of all isn't that it runs with visual quality absolutely that of the early screens, or that the framerate almost consistently bulleted along at a perfect 60, or that the control and handling was all second-nature in a few second ... no, all of that seemed clear when we saw the first trailer of the game at SCEE's booth before playable PSP games were made available. What knocked me out was that the game ideas kept going and going. The more I talked with a fellow at BigBig representing the game, the more details I heard that seemed plain preposterous until I saw it in gameplay.
