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Pure: The high-def love child of SSX Tricky and Excite Truck
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I know that there are a lot of people who don't like racing games, but love SSX. This game is for you.
Pure came out on 360 and PS3 back in September to almost no fanfare and was quickly forgotten. I, like I suspect many people, enjoyed the demo but didn't feel like it was worth full price at the time, especially gearing up for the Fall Crush. That said, I picked up Pure on Black Friday for $20, and the game is made of the richest veins of awesome. It likely won't win any Game of the Year awards, but it's a complete blast, controls great, looks beautiful and is really accessible both in short bursts and for longer play. I feel like it's criminal that such a viscerally enjoyable arcade racer was so quickly swept under the rug.
The game is straight, pull-no-punches arcadey ATV racing. The controls are fast and loose, the jumps are big and the trick system is pulled straight from the SSX playbook. Complete tricks to gain boost, and you can either use boost for, well, speed boosts, or build up your meter to work from smaller tricks (with the A button on 360) to bigger tricks on the B or Y buttons and then the ultimate Special Tricks using the left/right bumpers; these have the longest frames of animation, but pull them off and you'll refill the entire boost meter. So racing boils down to screaming down giant dirt hills, pulling off absurd tricks and gaining boost to go even faster around the track, and so on.
Pure trailer: Exhilaration
The single-player setup is very straightforward, like any Burnout game: Start with D-class engines and simple events; win enough in the first block of events, and you'll open up the next block; etc. The three kinds of events are Race (traditional 3-lap longer circuits), Sprint (shorter, Mario Kart Baby Park-style 5-lap circuits) and Freestyle (trick events where you gun for the high score). There are a handful of characters to choose from, but they're entirely cosmetic; all of the different stats for your vehicle are controlled in the mindblowingly detailed ATV customization garage, where you can build your own ATV from dozens of parts in about 20 different categories. Each part has different modifiers for your five stats: top speed, acceleration, handling, boost and tricks. As you win events, you unlock extra parts and improved levels of existing parts, so the OCD will agonize over building the perfect vehicle for races or trick events, but luckily there's an auto-build function that creates a race-spec or trick-spec vehicle for you automatically using your best parts.
The game is really just beautiful to look at. I haven't played Motorstorm, but I suspect it evokes the same aesthetic: Dirty, muddy racing tracks, 16 ATVs screaming around the track all at once, people launching themselves into the air at stupidly fast speeds. The game loads pretty snappy, events never take all that long, and while it starts off fairly easy, by the time you work your way even up to C class engines (you start at D and work up to A) you'll have to fight hard for 1st place. The trick system isn't quite as snappy as SSX; I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's a lot harder to pull off bigger tricks, especially if you have a more race-spec vehicle with a lower trick stat. But it tickles a lot of the same fancies as SSX, and seeing as how we haven't had a proper SSX in ages (:|) this fits the bill nicely.
You also get the benefit of 16-player online play, although I haven't had the chance to try it out because no one is playing this.
Long story short, Pure is a shitload of fun. I hate review numbers, but almost all of the reviews I've seen peg it as a solid 8 to 8.5: it's not really original, but it's amazingly well-built and fun to play. If you're looking for a great arcade racer—or your heart is still pining for a proper full sequel to SSX Tricky or SSX3—then you owe it to yourself to at least check out Pure. Probably not worth the full $60, but at the $20 to $40 you can probably find it for nowadays, it's a no-brainer.
EDIT: If you're already one of the True Believers and own this game, feel free to add me to your list. Of my almost full list, I only have two people who have logged times in this.
Pure came out on 360 and PS3 back in September to almost no fanfare and was quickly forgotten. I, like I suspect many people, enjoyed the demo but didn't feel like it was worth full price at the time, especially gearing up for the Fall Crush. That said, I picked up Pure on Black Friday for $20, and the game is made of the richest veins of awesome. It likely won't win any Game of the Year awards, but it's a complete blast, controls great, looks beautiful and is really accessible both in short bursts and for longer play. I feel like it's criminal that such a viscerally enjoyable arcade racer was so quickly swept under the rug.
The game is straight, pull-no-punches arcadey ATV racing. The controls are fast and loose, the jumps are big and the trick system is pulled straight from the SSX playbook. Complete tricks to gain boost, and you can either use boost for, well, speed boosts, or build up your meter to work from smaller tricks (with the A button on 360) to bigger tricks on the B or Y buttons and then the ultimate Special Tricks using the left/right bumpers; these have the longest frames of animation, but pull them off and you'll refill the entire boost meter. So racing boils down to screaming down giant dirt hills, pulling off absurd tricks and gaining boost to go even faster around the track, and so on.
Pure trailer: Exhilaration
The single-player setup is very straightforward, like any Burnout game: Start with D-class engines and simple events; win enough in the first block of events, and you'll open up the next block; etc. The three kinds of events are Race (traditional 3-lap longer circuits), Sprint (shorter, Mario Kart Baby Park-style 5-lap circuits) and Freestyle (trick events where you gun for the high score). There are a handful of characters to choose from, but they're entirely cosmetic; all of the different stats for your vehicle are controlled in the mindblowingly detailed ATV customization garage, where you can build your own ATV from dozens of parts in about 20 different categories. Each part has different modifiers for your five stats: top speed, acceleration, handling, boost and tricks. As you win events, you unlock extra parts and improved levels of existing parts, so the OCD will agonize over building the perfect vehicle for races or trick events, but luckily there's an auto-build function that creates a race-spec or trick-spec vehicle for you automatically using your best parts.
The game is really just beautiful to look at. I haven't played Motorstorm, but I suspect it evokes the same aesthetic: Dirty, muddy racing tracks, 16 ATVs screaming around the track all at once, people launching themselves into the air at stupidly fast speeds. The game loads pretty snappy, events never take all that long, and while it starts off fairly easy, by the time you work your way even up to C class engines (you start at D and work up to A) you'll have to fight hard for 1st place. The trick system isn't quite as snappy as SSX; I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's a lot harder to pull off bigger tricks, especially if you have a more race-spec vehicle with a lower trick stat. But it tickles a lot of the same fancies as SSX, and seeing as how we haven't had a proper SSX in ages (:|) this fits the bill nicely.
You also get the benefit of 16-player online play, although I haven't had the chance to try it out because no one is playing this.
Long story short, Pure is a shitload of fun. I hate review numbers, but almost all of the reviews I've seen peg it as a solid 8 to 8.5: it's not really original, but it's amazingly well-built and fun to play. If you're looking for a great arcade racer—or your heart is still pining for a proper full sequel to SSX Tricky or SSX3—then you owe it to yourself to at least check out Pure. Probably not worth the full $60, but at the $20 to $40 you can probably find it for nowadays, it's a no-brainer.
EDIT: If you're already one of the True Believers and own this game, feel free to add me to your list. Of my almost full list, I only have two people who have logged times in this.
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It's not the type of game I'd even spend $60 on, but like I mentioned, it's a perfect $20 to $30 purchase. Definitely grab the demo (I'm assuming there is a PS3 demo), which is the tutorial and maybe one race? I forget, exactly. But the graphics are really clean and sharp, no slowdown, and it's just a whole lot of fun to play.
I just wish you could use custom soundtracks on the PS3.
I got this game on Black Friday and love it. I loved the demo, so that really helped with my purchase.
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*Doble click Pure icon*
- Eternal Loading screen -
A video of the game shows up
*Press ESC*
*Video Skips*
- Even longer loading screen -
- How to play -
*Skip*
- Eternal loading screen -
- Play the game -
- Finish the race -
- Loading screen -
- GET PURE NOW VIDEO -
*Press ESC*
- Loading screen -
- Game exits -
Why does it have a loading screen for videos AND to exit the game? IT LOADS TO EXIT THE GAME FFS.
I don't think you're supposed to lime yourself. Don't worry, I'll quote you, so it looks like it was me.
Because this game is sex.
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edit - customization is ridiculous. so many options.
I will say though, isn't this the company that made Motocross Madness 1 & 2? They seem to have been making the same game with a new skin for what, 10 years now?
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I had it in my goozex queue but I didn't have 1k points and missed it a few days ago :x
Loved the demo, will play it eventually and the SSX comparison is very true.
It reminds me a ton of Sled Storm on PS1. My brother and I wasted hours on that game. I wonder if I can get him into this, if he'll see the comparison. I don't even know if it has local play.
EDIT: No, it doesn't. Ugh.
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I think Blackrock Studio made it and Disney published it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVfHEbTQGUM
Does anyone know what kind of rig you need to run the game at decent settings/framerate?
This.
I tried this ages ago, and got pretty annoyed at that.
I also probably did it extremely wrong, but the tutorial race (which was in the demo) didn't do a good job of teaching the controls: I had to go into the settings to figure them out, and I couldn't find any advanced graphical settings, so it was locked at a low res.
(I'm sure the final is all sorts of fun, though.)
If you ever manage to lose sight of 1st place duder, he will just whiz away, never to be seen again.
the trick is to find the quickest route through the track. the computer isnt cheating as such, they just know the fastest way through the track. some of them are quite devious. once you have worked out exactly the best route to go you can literally own any computer oppostion, making it not too hard to pick up 1st in every race.
Sprint and trick are different however, just be sure to have a specialized atv set up for each event type, makes things so much easier.
Great game though, absolulte blast to play, just wish it had splitscreen multiplayer as no one is on servers!
It's also that if I don't win a race first try I get very annoyed. I'm aware the solution is to go as far as you get until you get good enough parts to go back and win, but man, that's like, twice as much work.
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I guess I just have to play though tracks multiple times to see if there's a winning route. But like Willeth, I get annoyed if I don't win the first time out. :P
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Hmm, although maybe the best bit of SSX was the races, getting points for boost and stuff. Does this game have truly ridiculous tricks, and a silly cast of characters who spout one liners at you? I also used to like how you could build up rivalries, so if you knocked someone down they would hate you a bit more, so if a PC 'friend' and you competed for first it would be different than if you competed with someone you had beaten up the whole time.
I, too, lament a lack of SSX.
Pure does have about 6 different characters to pick from, but they're fairly generic; they do spout lines at people when they get passed, win races, etc., but it's not as nearly as over-the-top as SSX is. They occasionally earn chuckles from me, though. But the tricks are pure SSX: there are four tiers of tricks (A button, B, Y, or the L/R bumpers together), and tricks are performed by holding one of the buttons and pressing the left stick in one direction. You have a Boost bar on the bottom right of the screen, which you build up by performing tricks; you can start by pulling off A button tricks, but gain enough boost and you can pull off B button tricks. The bigger the trick, the more boost you gain back, but the risk/reward mechanic is that if you use enough boost to drop down a trick tier, you lose the ability to pull off bigger tricks. The L/R bumper tricks are the "Special Tricks" and are almost exactly like SSX Übertricks—patently impossible things, like spinning and flipping while playing air guitar or meditating.
If you don't want to keep multiples, you can always just go into the garage, choose to edit/modify your ATV, scroll down to the Engine, re-select the same engine and then you can pick what engine class you want it to be. I've always used the automatic options to build a race-spec and a trick-spec ATV; the customization is waaaaaaay too complicated for me.
This looks pretty cool though. I might check out the 360 demo.
A very nice person (on that forum) lent me his copy, and I raced through it. But I sent it back before I completed it just so I had an excuse to pick up my own copy. It's ace.
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The fact that this thread is only two pages long makes me sad. As an offroad racer, as an SSX spiritual spinoff, simply as an arcade game with drop-dead gorgeous production values, Pure is magnificent. They just got so many little details right. From the way the camera has just enough inertia to make every turn and every landing feel even more real than the controller rumble, to the way the music drops out to an atmospheric whoosh as you soar over a cliff, miles upon miles of sun-drenched countryside spreading out in all directions, Pure's brand of adrenaline rush is all its own.
I wish more games could make me laugh as much as this one does merely pulling off a jump. It's nuts.
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I haven't played this game in quite some time, but it isn't because I didn't like it. Just never got into the groove of playing it a lot. I need to start playing again. If more people here would get it I would love to get a huge 16 player race going. That would be so fun.
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You'll be glad to know Blackrock Studio is currently working on the sexalicious-looking racing game Split/Second, though. Now that I think about it, I made a thread about that game too. I'm such a whore.
Same, great game though. Kinda frustrating near the end in single player, but you sure get a rush when it all works out.