Artist lists work on Pure 2, now canceled

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Jul 23rd 2009 at 6:45PM }

Professional artist Young s. Ko. has numerous video games under his belt, all listed on his blog and all likely to be very familiar to you. Why, he's done vehicle art for games such as Need For Speed Shift, Burnout Revenge, Pure and even Pure 2. "But wait!" you exclaim. "One of those hasn't come out!" You're right -- Need For Speed Shift hasn't been released yet -- but please, you really need to concentrate on the "Pure 2" thing. That's what this whole post is about.

According to the project's description, a sequel to last year's thrilling off-road racer has not only failed to materialize, but may have been sent to the scrap heap altogether. The publishing contract was allegedly canceled (not entirely surprising considering Disney's rough year), dashing our hopes of ever seeing Young's ATV displays, uh, displayed on a TV. Well, maybe not ever. One can hope that developer Black Rock Studios will revisit the four-wheeled franchise after it completes 2010's Split/Second ... provided we don't immediately start clamoring for a sequel to that first.

Disney Interactive Studios had no comment to offer at the time of publishing.

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Tags: black-rock, black-rock-studios, disney, disney-interactive-studios, pure, pure-2, racing

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Alex. @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:49PM

OH NOES!!!!!

xP O L S K Ix @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:52PM

I wasn't impressed very much with the original to want a sequel...

Mazrael @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:08PM

my mate tried the demo.. he laughed at it & turned it off..

Ghen @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:02PM

What are you talking about? Pure is one of the best arcade style racing games of the past 5 years.

K1LLER HORNET @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:38PM

I know what you're talking about - Pure is one of the shittiest games of the past 5 years.

Whocares @ Jul 23rd 2009 11:27PM

pure looked amazing and played well. It kinda tired out after a while but I would definately get the sequel.

Tiptup300 @ Jul 24th 2009 1:09AM

What happened to splitscreen co-op career for racing games? This game would have been perfect.

gonintendo @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:53PM

FUCK ACTIVISION!

gonintendo @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:54PM

btw, I just made this into a macro on my keyboard. It shall be spamt everywhere!

sony boy @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:54PM

100% agree. FUCK ACTIVISION.

eat my face @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:54PM

K1LLER HORNET @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:41PM

Yeah, fuck activision,

for hiking up the price of MW2,

but give them a hug for not releasing "Pure Shit 2"

Bubbameister33 @ Jul 23rd 2009 6:58PM

That makes me a sad Bubba.

kosmocrisis @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:00PM

I thought the original was awesome, and one of the best ATV games since ATV 3 on PS2. Graphics were sick, controls were tight, physics and online were spot on. Not to mention it was patched with Love...aka Trophies.

Brucie B @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:16PM

WHAT, Pure Was/Is the Best ATV Game out (Period)

Fernando Lins @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:23PM

I keep getting these games mixed up. Pure is the cool one with the ATVs only, or is it that new one that has all sorts of vehicles? If it's the latter I'm glad there won't be a sequel, otherwise I could be mad.

fred @ Jul 23rd 2009 11:13PM

it only has ATVs if I recall correctly

here's a vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_z5nh0KubY&feature=related

D_Average @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:26PM

Son of a Biznoch! The first game was fantastic. Even deleted my save to play again for trophies.

Tyler @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:29PM

One of the few games I wish I didn't sell on ebay...

K1LLER HORNET @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:37PM

One of the few games I wish I never played...

Yipcanjo @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:34PM

That's really too bad. "Pure" was a great game -- good graphics, fun, easy-to-play, etc., and a good sequel would be awesome! Hopefully they'll see the light on this.

John Perkins @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:41PM

I would have bought the first one if it had local multiplayer. And I would buy a sequel under the same conditions.

Neo Asuma @ Jul 23rd 2009 7:42PM

I tried the demo and liked it. Pure kinda reminded me of SSX in a way, just without the interesting cast. I wished they had made the riders more personable.

[tre the ride warrior] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Jul 23rd 2009 8:05PM

Ah, SSX. Quite possibly my favorite sports series ever. When will a next-gen version of it emerge? Your guess is as good as mine.

ZaxCG2 @ Jul 23rd 2009 8:49PM

All I can say is... dangit. If you've ever played Pure you'll know that its a great game, just doesn't go all that deep. Yes super ATV customization was freaking awesome, but what made the gameplay eventually get boring is the lack of depth, things kept getting repetitive. The only thing this game needed was more depth, and I felt they could have done that in a sequel.

Ah well. Hope it gets picked up by a company who deserves my money... NOT DISNEY.

K1LLER HORNET @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:35PM

Thank God - Cut you're losses people.

Pure should have been called "Pure SHIT" - maybe then i wouldn't have wasted some of my life downloading & playing it.

Easily one of the worst games i've ever played - i can honestly say it rivaled 'Yaris', no joke.

I wish i could wipe out every memory i have of that game - it was just sooooo bad.

# Some people actually like it?
omg wtf-bbq - that's just ridiculous

Ryan @ Jul 23rd 2009 10:51PM

Ok dude, shut the fuck up. We get it, you hate Pure. The game totally sucks with it's 85 Metacritic score obviously.

Why the hate? Were you playing the game, kind of liking it, then group of large gay men busted down your door and raped you, in front of the TV before you had a chance to shut it off, and now whenever you hear someone mention the game, you instantly fill with rage and must let every one know (with a minimum of 4 comments), and then cry yourself to sleep soon thereafter?

Whocares @ Jul 23rd 2009 11:32PM

everyone who seems to hate it only downloaded the demo. There was so much stuff you could do in the demo that I hadn't realised until I got the full game.

Neuromancer @ Jul 24th 2009 10:38AM

You sir make me sick.

Benjamin T.E. @ Jul 23rd 2009 11:08PM

Didn't the first Pure game do pretty well, sales-wise? Or am I mixing it up with some other great racing game?

alexpastry @ Jul 24th 2009 12:09AM

AWESOME!!!

5 STAR!!!

5 out of 5

10 / 10

YOURE ROCK!! TURN THE HEAAAAATTT UP!!!

PRETTY COOL!

Bri @ Jul 24th 2009 12:31AM

this news sux :( pure was excellent. and it was purely ATVs, and it was right up there with ATV Offroad Fury 2. (Fury 3 wasn't my favorite, and all others with ATVs kinda suck to me, they didnt capture the spirit of ATV racing, be it that they had to work on other vehicles.. it just didnt gel)

stupid disney :(

NOOK @ Jul 24th 2009 4:08AM

First one was entertaining for exactly as long a the demo went. Unfortunately, I bought the game -.-

7thton @ Jul 24th 2009 11:47AM

Pure is the best racing game I have ever played. I NEED a sequel!

kiraparadox @ Sep 7th 2009 10:22AM

Everyone at my high school luvs this game, I downloaded the demo and LOVED IT, played it hundreds of times, and I even play the demo while waiting for DLC to download, and i have the game! I'm still not bored with it because i appreciate the epic-ness thats put into the game. As to those who hate the game, they probably compared it to Halo and said "wers t3h rocket lawn-chair" and decided it was the worst firstperson shooter ever.