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Pursuit Force for PlayStation Portable
In Pursuit Force for PlayStation Portable, you play a young police officer chasing five gangs terrorising Capital City. You pursue suspects, shoot from your vehicle and jump to another car or boat at the right moment. You then eliminate its occupants to take the wheel. A chase can therefore involve several changes of vehicle, while traffic, bullets and your car's condition continue to matter.
Assignments take you along motorways, dusty routes and waterways. Sometimes you fight on foot or operate a mounted weapon from a helicopter. Your Justice meter fills when you tackle criminals; with a full meter, you can restore your health and your vehicle's condition, among other benefits. Damaging civilian vehicles instead costs you accumulated Justice. Even during a wild chase, you therefore need to watch what you hit and which target you fire at.
In your career, you solve cases and earn promotions that make new assignments available. Separate races and time trials let you drive routes again and improve your times. Pursuit Force is a single-player game; the original game has no wireless multiplayer. This Essentials release contains the original police adventure, not the later Pursuit Force Extreme Justice. You save your profile and progress on a Memory Stick Duo.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
Pursuit Force for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Pursuit Force
Pursuit Force was the first game from Britain's Bigbig Studios. It was released for PSP in Europe in 2005, followed by North America in 2006. The team worked on its own action-hero concept rather than adapting an existing film. A police officer taking over moving vehicles gave the game a recognisable action that directly linked shooting and driving. Sony published it as an exclusive title for its new handheld.
According to managing director Jonathan Webb, development began before the PSP had been publicly announced. Several team members had worked on racing games at Codemasters, including the Touring Car and Colin McRae series. That experience helped them build vehicles and shape their handling. The early team numbered fourteen people and grew during production. Bigbig wanted to use the exaggeration of action films without abandoning all the familiar rules of cars, roads and chases.
Vehicle jumping was later used again in Pursuit Force Extreme Justice, which expanded the idea with new situations and characters. That is a separate sequel, not part of this Essentials reissue. Bigbig continued working with Sony; in 2007 Sony acquired the studio and Evolution Studios. The original Pursuit Force reflects the PSP's early years, when developers were seeking action games with a distinct character on a portable screen. Its set cases and separate time trials provide clearly defined playing sessions.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Burnout Legends for PSP, like Pursuit Force, puts considerable emphasis on speed, collisions and taking out other vehicles. In Burnout, you stay behind the wheel, using boost and contact with opponents to win events. Pursuit Force adds a police officer who jumps between vehicles and shoots at their occupants. Aggressive driving is their common ground; the difference becomes clear when a chase turns into a vehicle takeover or a gunfight.
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories for PSP also combines driving with shooting and crime-related assignments. As Toni Cipriani, you explore a city and choose when to head to the next job. Pursuit Force puts you on the police's side and takes you straight into a defined case. You change vehicles in both games, but only Pursuit Force makes jumping between moving cars the core of almost every chase.
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars for PSP lets you drive and shoot in Liberty City from an elevated camera. Story missions alternate with city activities and trading illegal goods. Pursuit Force views the chase from closer behind your vehicle and keeps the assignment firmly in motion. Both games combine traffic with armed action, but Huang Lee has much more freedom outside a mission; Pursuit Force's police officer has to focus on his current case.
Killzone Liberation for PSP also has separate missions, gunfights and moments when you drive a vehicle. Its military battlefield calls for cover and a careful approach to enemy positions. Pursuit Force instead has you draw alongside a moving target so you can jump onto it. Clear objectives guide you through the action in both games, but Killzone emphasises tactical movement while Pursuit Force centres on chases and rapid vehicle changes.
Ratchet & Clank Size Matters for PSP combines different weapons with an action adventure involving plenty of jumping. Those jumps mainly help you cross platforming routes and obstacles, with gadgets opening new possibilities. Pursuit Force uses jumping as part of a chase: you need to drive close enough and take over a vehicle. Both games regularly change the type of action, but Ratchet's science-fiction worlds create a different rhythm from the successive police cases in Capital City.
