Pure

Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper.

Ever played Freekstyle? Well, that's a good place to start when trying to imagine Pure. However, in place of motorbikes, this has quad bikes. And they're very fast, too. In fact, speed and excitement are the buzzwords here. This is an arcade game through and through, but the crucial difference between Pure and Freekstyle is that Pure has its roots in the real world

Rarely have we seen a game that made us want to throw up in a good way. Watching director Jason Avent preload up a gravel-laden peak and launch off amidst gondolas and hot air balloons in the cloudy New Mexico sky was all at once mesmerizing and lunch rejecting. The soundtrack mutes, the trash-talking rider Supermans his body while barely grasping the seat. Quickly, he plummets down to earth. Jason’s trajectory is off and the rider

A quick sit down with developer Blackrock Studio’s stunt-centric ATV racing game Pure had us exclaiming out loud such sophisticated phrases as “Whoa!” and “Dang!” and we weren’t even playing the game. Before we got to see it, however, director Jason Avent wanted to explain what he was going for in Pure.He describes an example of going snowboarding, where you come over the crest of a hill, and a huge vista