Pursuit Force Review (Let's Game It Out)
Video (gameplay + commentary):
https://youtu.be/C0DF878tf2U
Short Version:
This game is very janky and enemy AI is fully broken, but the sum of its parts are unintentionally hilarious and provide minutes of fun.
Longer Review:
This may be a "Game of the Year 2018 Best Worst Game" contender, solely because it is so absolutely surreal and hilarious. The game basically feels like an alpha of an alpha, and yet we couldn't turn away from it. Great for the under two dollars we spent on it.
At no point were we clear of the objectives or how we accomplished anything, outside of "follow the red dot on the mini map." Car handling is poor at best. Graphics feel like an N64 game ported to PC. The whole point of the game is to apprehend bad guys in cars trying to get away from you, but the AI nearly always drives itself into a wall or lamp post and stays there, so all you really have to do is cruise on over and slam into them as hard as you can and the mission ends. It's both baffling and amazing.
In theory, the game takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, though the map itself is obviously not any real world city. There are modern skyscrapers along the cityscape BUT ALSO what look like moon bases? And possibly an Imperial compound from Star Wars?! There are also a very sparse spattering of other cars and pedestrians throughout the city, and we do mean sparse. For the most part, it'll be you and the city.
Honestly, with some more localized dialogue and fixed car AI, the game could have some lasting charm for what it is. As it stands, the game is just a little too broken, even if downright hysterical as a result.