Pure Comments by Kristan Reed

Seems to be getting universally good reviews this.

was really impressed with the 360 demo and its a good prices online..£28.99 very nice...but still have a feeling this one will be in the pre-owned/ 2 for £40 deals soon and then it will be defo pick up for me!

It's getting bought on payday. Loved the demo, it's incredible looking too

Think I'm going to try the demo of this. It would be rude not to considering the praise it's getting. The devs deserve that much from me.

i was trying to avoid buying pure this week as i'm totally skint. this review just made that a lot more difficult. i hate you eurogamer...

I got the game (PS3 version) last week and very happy with it. Fun, accessable, and looks fantastic - recommended :)

Only downside is the length... a bit on the short side.

Phase1 of EGs plan to mark Motorstorm 2 down complete. Mwahahahaha

;););)

Big up the Brighton developers..

Like Skate I was blown away by the demo for this. A joyous game - kudos to all involved.

Demo engine was really very good looking. Gratz to the devs for attaching a good game to it as well :)

Really wasn't overly impressed with the demo. Very surprised to see I'm in the minority here.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad game, but not something I'd rush out to buy. Very pretty and quite fun doing insane jumps, but the trick system didn't really work for me and found the actual racing part quite dull.

Still, I might give it another chance when the price comes down.

Loved the demo so much, I'm going to be too busy with Fable 2 and a few others to pick this up before Christmas but I'll certainly be getting this in the new year.

As good as DN3D!!

Sorry.

People are still ranking this too low, its just balls explodingly fun.

As good as halo.

Great review... I pretty much agree with everything said and the score.

I had a few hours on Pure (Xbox 360 version) last night, once I'd managed to drag myself off the insanely addictive WipEout HD that is, and I have to say that I love the game even if some of the races are proving a bit challenging (erm, I'm only on the third tier by the way! /blush). Pure reminds me a lot of a SEGA arcade game, it's simple, easy to get into but immensely fun. The tricks are easy to pull off but the challenge comes in varying them and landing them to get plenty of boost. You certainly need the boost if you want to win later races. Refreshingly this game also does away with that annoying rubberband A.I. that plagues these kinds of games (MotorStorm had it for example) so you always feel like you're winning because of skill not blind luck. If you have a good race, pull off loads of tricks, you can build up quite a decent lead, which is refreshing.

I do disagree with EG about the customisation though. I found it quite fun to build my ATVs from scratch and then give them a unique name likes Super Duper Trooper and (in an acknowledgement to the developers) The Blackrock (in black, of course!). While you can quick build them as EG said, I'm not sure whether they're the best that be built or whether the CPU just throws together random parts. It's more satisfying to construct your own IMO and I found out from playing the game online that no two ATVs look alike. And about the online mode, it plays brilliantly although it's too easy to get unbalanced races. For example I'd only unlocked Class C vehicles whereas I was racing Class B and A ones... obviously I had absolutely no chance of winning the race with my own customised ATV. Conversely, this also means that if you make a total balls up of jumps and keep crashing, you'll struggle to win the race. Fortunately, the game is quite generous and dishes out bike parts and rewards even if you come 9th. Which is nice. :)

Anyway, a very good game from the developers of the Xbox MotoGP series... nice to see them doing something completely different. Pure is certainly their most accessible game to date IMO.

Loved the demo, but gonna wait a while before picking this up.. Too many good games are coming out and the LBP beta is way too addictive :)

Pretty amazing score for racing game where you don't even feel like you are racing but doing gimmicks instead.

Altrough graphics and engine are impresive.

Looks great, loved the demo. It reminded me of PS2 SSX clone Freekstyle, albeit on three wheels.

/edit

I mean four ;-)

Quad bikes have four wheels, bodypopper. ;)

mentalist quad bike riders

sold!

I haven't tried the demo yet but I loved Excite Truck on the Wii so there's a good chance I will enjoy this one as well.

I'm all for spectacular, simple arcade thrills. Methinks there's more hidden depth in this than some realise - it's all about timing and getting it right. After all, usually people are quite happy bombing around tracks without any tacked on extras at all.

I'm gonna buy!

I got it yesterday from game for £29.99 its a 9.5/10. If the review was based on the game retailing at £39.99 maybe a 8 was warranted but its fucking fantastic fun ... brilliant courses and smooth as silk gameplay.... and you wont mess up as much as the review says you do.....
BUY IT !

Looks gorgeous... a bit like DIRT.

yeah i noticed it seems to be £30 most places, there's practically no chance of me restraining myself on the way home

i don't think you could "tweak" the tricks in the demo the same way you can in the full game...

I dunno, having played the ps3 demo of this and motorstorm2 I just enjoyed the ms2 demo more even if pure was prettier.

Plus ms2 has 4 player split screen...

One thing I didn't know from the demo was that you can flip your quad bike mid-air by double tapping the left analogue stick up or down then holding it in that direction during a jump. It's quite risky as you need a lot of air time but it sure looks cool! :)

Oh and apart from a post-race replay (i.e. your rider carries on racing while the game shows them off from various angles), there's no option to actually replay the race you just did which is a shame as I'd love to be able to watch some of the tricks again from a different angle and even take screenshots. A bit of a missed opportunity there I think but perhaps the developers wanted to keep things simple.

No PC demo, no sale.

Demo was alright. I don't see the excitement with it (from reading the review rather than the score, it's a 7 for me), there is just nothing new in it, but does generic stuff well.

A 2 for £40 purchase me thinks, as someone has already said.

Is it me, or do the majority of games reviewed on this site get 8/10? I really think the scoring system could do with an overhaul to promote use of the whole scale.

(Note that I'm not arguing that the Pure score is wrong within the rules of the current scoring policy, just that the scoring policy does not work now as it was originally designed to.)

Totally missed the demo of this. Will have to check it out. S it's as much fun as the quad bikes in run the gauntlet way back when :)

Wow, where did this come from?

I must have been living under a rock, because I haven't really heard of this title. Sounds rather good though, so I might have to pick this gem up.

@betahoven - There are a lot of games that get 8/10 on Eurogamer because there are a lot of good, solid but not totally awesome games out there. I don't see how revising the score system would change that unless you think having a decimal point and a number before it makes them more accurate. Personally, I don't tend to pay attention to the number at the end, it's the words of the review itself that are important as they (hopefully) tell me everything I need to know about the game so I can base my purchasing decision on it. I'd be happy if the reviews had NO scores to be honest.

Well I thought the demo was pretty awful nice enough gfx but the controls were downright wrong, would prefer to play the original motorstorm. I suppose on the 360 there isn't much else that matches up but on the ps3 you can do so much better and probably even more so come pacific rift.

thought the demo was ok, I'll wait til this is about £10 in GAME in about a years time. too many better looking games to play than another driving one

I didn't think much to the demo. Not that it was bad, just not a big smack in the face "this is great!" reaction. Mind you I was underimpressed by the Motorstorm Pacific Rift demo too, maybe I've gone off these type of games? :(

Love the demo of this and it was going to be a instant release day purchase, but my elite decided to go all RRoD on me and by the time it gets back Fable and Fallout will be here, so i'm afraid this is going to get shoved back till the new year slump in games when i can pick it up for peanuts, a real shame as i was looking forward to this so much since demo day 1 :-(

£17.99 on PC, happy days :-)

"it feels like an incredible platform to build on"

I am entirely fed up with 'next-gen' games coming up short in this regard. :/

as good as Duke Nukem 3D then? :D

just saw robg beat me to it ;) oops

Lot of '8' games coming our recently...

I played the demo a while back, and found I had an unreasonably good time with a racing game, of all things. I'm tempted to buy this, but it's a racing game at heart, and on these 4-wheeling buggies or whatever they're called, no less...

There will be a PC demo Unclelou.

been playing this in single player for nearly a week ,great fun - more so than MS imho - really looking forward to multiplayer mayhem over the weekend against some mates.

Great, thanks! It really is the type of game I need to try before I buy, and I was a bit miffed already.

Do I buy it on 360 or PS3? The demos looked identical but I'm sure I read somewhere that there are tumbleweeds blowing through the PS3 lobbies

No PC demo (yet?) and no PC version reviews that I can see. Hell, the local GAME didn't even get the PC version in stock today. And we're told it's 'the pirates' that are killing PC gaming.!?

@Dazrichards. It only came out today. So yes there probably were tumbleweeds!

Thought the demo was decent. But there are too many good games coming out shortly for me to bother yet with this