Pursuit Force

Released in the PAL region in November 2005 and in North America in March 2006. The game received positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice, was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2007. In May 2023, the original Pursuit Force was released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 as part of the Classics Catalogue.

• Title — Pursuit Force • Developer — Bigbig Studios • Publisher — Sony Computer Entertainment • Designer — Alan Stock Christopher Whiteside • Artist — Saleh Ahmed Mark Ashcroft Piers Coe Chun Man Li Andrew Stevenson • Programmer — Andrew Beynon Ben Cohen Tony Marshall Lee Metcalfe • Composer — Richard Jacques • Genre — Vehicular combat, third-person shooter • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — PlayStation Portable

There are a total of 30 missions, six per gang, involving fighting enemies on foot, in a speedboat and a car/motorcycle chases, or in a helicopter while manning a minigun. The player character can leap into enemy vehicles and commandeer them after shooting their occupants. The player can earn different ranks which unlock different content while completing missions will unlock new ranks which will unlock new gang missions and different abilities to help make the game easier, such as regenerating health. The game also includes a race mode with several different courses and scenarios and a time trial mode, setting the player across all the games' tracks. These two modes are completely independent of each other and will not help nor hinder the gameplay of the other game modes. There is also a wide variety of unlockable content such as pictures and videos to access. The amount of content to unlock, however, is completely dependent on the scores in the career mode.

The Pursuit Force has been organised to destroy the threat posed by gangs responsible for many vehicle-related crime sprees across Capital State and to eliminate their leaders: • Capelli Family: One of the two gangs that are initially available at the start of the game, the Capellis are Capital State's most powerful Mafia family headed up by Don Capelli, and are said to be the state's oldest gang. The other significant member of the Capelli Family is their best marksman Stefano De Tomaso, also known as "Deadeye". • Warlords: The second of the two gangs available at the start of the game, the Warlords are a group of mercenaries and rogue soldiers who feel that they were betrayed by the military. They focus primarily on hijacking military hardware and are led by "The General", with the other significant member of the gang being Lieutenant Davies. • Convicts: The Convicts are a group of psychotic prison escapees who have broken out of prison to cause as much chaos as they can around Capital State and are about to flee the city so they can wreak havoc on a much larger scale. Their leader is a gigantic criminal known only as "Hard Balls", while the other significant member of the Convicts is an insane pyromaniac named Billy Wilde. • Vixens: The Vixens are an all-female group of professional thieves with a high-tech arsenal whose crimes are based around high-profile heists and grand thefts, from priceless artifacts to luxury speedboats. The major members of the Vixens are their leader "Whiplash" and her second-in-command and lover "The Fox". • Killer 66: The Killer 66 are a Yakuza gang based in Capital State, and the most powerful of all five gangs in the game, focusing primarily on vehicle smuggling and illegal drug trade. They are led by "Monster" Toshima; the other significant member of the gang being his second-in-command Sudeko Arakawa.