Player�s paradise

Hot pursuit

By Shaun Conlin

Racing by the seat of your pants

Game: Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice
Publisher: Sony
Platform: PlayStation Portable
Rating: Teen (13+)
Score: 3.5 out of 5

Not so much a race game as a chase game, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice makes for a great portable title. It�s broken into short pursuit-and-shoot sequences that one might see in a low-budget movie with big-budget action scenes.

While the story and dialogue would be utterly forgettable if it weren�t all so annoying and stupid, the meat of gameplay is straight-up fun � harrowing races down wide-open highways, up snaking rivers and through the odd shopping mall or two.

CARJACKING FUN

It�s one-handed driving, as you also shoot at the baddies that you�re pursuing. Better still, get close enough and you can actually jump out of your vehicle at 160 kilometres per hour, finish shooting them, then commandeer their vehicle to carry on the pursuit of others.

If your vehicle takes too much damage, you can commandeer any vehicle that happens to be motoring along in the vicinity. In this case, you don�t shoot the owner, but rather drive him home at breakneck speed while you carry on shooting at the baddies.

It�s not a game that you can come back to again and again. It�s just visually exciting, over-the-top driving action served up in snack-sized segments � exactly what you want in a portable game. � Cox News Service

	pursuit (n): the act of following or chasing somebody sequence (n): a set of events or actions that lead to a particular result annoying (adj): making somebody feel slightly angry harrowing (adj): very shocking or frightening pursue (v): to follow or chase somebody or something, especially in order to catch them commandeer (v): to take control of a building, a vehicle, etc. by force for your own use vicinity (n): the area around a particular place breakneck (adj): very fast and dangerous IDIOM by the seat of your pants: to act without careful thought, hoping that you will be lucky and successful