Pure (video game)


Pure is an off-road, quad-bike trick-racing video game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows published by Disney Interactive Studios and developed by Black Rock Studio. The game was announced on February 14, 2008 and was released in North America on September 16, 2008 on Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in Europe on September 26, 2008 and in Japan on June 25, 2009. The game incorporates a trick system that rewards the player with speed boosts for successfully pulling off tricks.

Development

Pure director Jason Avent assured gamers that both Xbox 360 versions and PlayStation 3 versions will run identically.
At E3 2008, Pure was awarded Best Racing Game of E3 2008 by the Game Critics Awards, Editors’ Choice Award from Official Xbox Magazine, Best Driving Game from GameTrailers.com and Best Racing Game on Xbox 360 from IGN.
A demo was released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on September 4, 2008. The demo features one level of play. The PC demo was made available on October 2.

Soundtrack

Pure's soundtrack features a wide variety of artists in genres ranging from house and electronic to hip-hop and rock, but with the menus exclusively playing rock music.

Reception

Pure was well received by critics. Official Xbox Magazine gave it a 9 out of 10. GameRankings gave the game an average score of 84.0% for the PC game, 82.6% for the PlayStation 3 game, and 85.4% for the Xbox 360 game. Metacritic has an average score of 83 out of 100 for both the PC and PlayStation 3 games, and 85 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 game. Ryan Geddes from IGN gave the game an 8.4 out of a possible 10 points, praising that "The controls are intuitive, the tracks are pure eye candy and the tricks are so crazy", but noting that the game lacked depth.