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He's also armed to the teeth and has a backup squad of several other well-armed and skilled cops. The premise is much the same this time around in Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice where you get to play a renegade cop with no fear for his life at all. Compared to a game like GTA that put you behind the wheel in a huge crime-simulator world, how much fun is it to just drive around an arena blowing up your friends?Ĭar combat seemed to go on hiatus and re-emerge as a butterfly from a chrysalis with the first Pursuit Force game. Who needed car combat when you could combine vehicular homicide with action on foot and all kinds of weaponry that included sniper rifles, machine guns, and bazookas. Then GTA came along and pretty much blew away our notion of what a mission-based driving game might look like if it adopted a take-no-prisoners approach. Once you'd unlocked the unlockables and played all the different characters, you didn't have much to do. The big complaint about all the copy-cats and even some iterations of a good franchise was that driving around an arena blowing up your friends had a tendency to feel pretty thin. If you lived through the era of the "me-too" driving combat game, you know that there were many losers and few winners.

The pace may change in this outing, but the view is mostly the same. The bosses have some neat twists and are much bigger than in the first game, where there was an overall lack of variety. Everything is a combination of car combat, over-the-shoulder shooting action, and on-rails shooting. There isn't much that will surprise you after a few missions into Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice. What works better is when replay truly unlocks novel gameplay content. The idea that forcing us to replay the game to unlock stuff we saw once the first time around is a little stale, but not unheard of in the gaming world. There is a complete gallery of unlockables that feature art, game images, and movies that you can unlock by earning points in replay missions. The cut-scenes are very well done with lots of CGI, but don't show up nearly enough.

More happens on-screen and there are improved effects that show up in fiery explosions, damage to vehicles, and the complexity of some of the game environments. The graphics are improved incrementally, but still look very much like what we saw in the original Pursuit Force. In this light, it's interesting to see how much more was packed into Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice compared to the first game. Sequels are mostly allowed to be unoriginal if they can take a good formula and expand on it. Sequels just generally just don't have the same juice as the original. I mean that "us" in the broadest possible sense, as in the whole of mankind and womankind.