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One Hour With: Pure

Turning tricks and crashing out

By Andrei Dumitrescu, Games Editor

13th of September 2008, 00:51 GMT

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So, the demo for Pure is out and the game promises to offer players the chance to race powerful ATVs while also making pretty big jumps and doing a lot of over the top, crazy tricks. I hope that the guys at Black Rock Studio have done a good job on the game and I'm at the moment downloading the Xbox 360 demo, which is pretty big.

12:00. The tutorial comes first and it seems straight forward. One lap on a fairly short course with only two places where you can jump.

12:05. It gets more complicated as it teaches you to pre-load a jump by flicking the right stick on the controller and pull interesting moves by using the face buttons. X gives a boost to your speed but quickly drains the meter that powers your air tricks.

12:15. Tutorial done on the second try, now let's see what the demo level offers.

12:20. The track is very long. And the damn mud is put there to just get in your way and limit your speed. The course also has a lot of alternate roads which means that I probably won't get bored in the three laps I have to do.

12:25. For some weird reason, I always crash as I land a big air trick so I can't get my trick meter over the limit which separates the A and the B tricks. The idea is that once you pull enough A tricks, a meter loads and then you get to do B tricks. The next level is Y tricks and if you manage to do those successfully, then you can access other tricks with the Left and Right Buttons.

12:30. I apparently fail at ATV tricks. Weird, as I remember enjoying the Tony Hawk games, which are even more intensive when it comes to stringing combos and moves.

12:35. I have even managed to die by falling into a big pit. I will restart this...

12:45. My goal for the next fifteen minutes is to get to the level needed to pull a spectacular Y powered trick.

12:55. I did it. I pulled a Ruler, a Superman Seat Grab and even a special Shaolin Funk trick. Mission accomplished. The game looks and plays well but ATV stunt racing is just not my thing. I wouldn't buy this. The main idea I got out of this hour of play is that I need to fire up Tony Hawk again to do some rail riding.

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Pure | ATV | racing | Xbox 360 | tricks
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