Pursuit Force to arrive in North America Spring 2006

by James Ransom-Wiley { Nov 30th 2005 at 3:15PM }

Sony plans to bring its fast-paced PSP action title, Pursuit Force, to North America next spring. Pursuit Force was released earlier this month in Europe, scoring average reviews from critics (see Joystiq's roundup)—curiously, those reviews starting cropping up some time before the retail release.

GameSpot claims that the North American version of Pursuit Force is still in shop at UK-based Bigbig Studios, so perhaps the game's receiving a tune-up before it crosses the pond. GameSpot might have named Pursuit Force the Best PSP Game of E3 2005, but, if we can trust our European counterparts, this first attempt has fallen short.

UPDATE: Sony has revealed that the North American version is getting a difficulty tune-up (or rather, tone-down), as well as an image-saving feature that will allow players to access unlocked game images via the PSP's "Home" interface.

[via GameSpot]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jago @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

I tried out this game at E3. It was kinda fun and seemed perfect for a handheld game but it wasn't mind blowing or anything. It'll be just another (maybe) decent title to the PSP library.

Mike @ Dec 18th 2005 10:01PM

Wow, the biased editorializing just keeps coming here at Joystiq...

Yesterday, Gamespot asked BigBig if the US version of Pursuit Force would be different from the UK version:

GS: North American gamers will be getting their hands on Pursuit Force much later than their UK counterparts. Can they look forward to any bonus features not found in the European version?

RH: We're using the majority of that time to really tune the difficulty of Pursuit Force, as that was one of the main concerns with the European version. But, one feature not available in the original version is the image-saving feature. We're allowing players to save the images that they've unlocked in the gallery to the images folder on the memory stick so that they can view them outside of the game and also use them as wallpaper for the PSP, which we think is pretty cool.

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Next time, do your homework before making garbage remarks like this.