There’s a charm to preparing exotic dishes in Mama’s high-strung, cartoony world. If you’ve played the previous Wii or DS titles, you know it’s a fleeting one.
With sterling presentation and an adrenalized experience with every session, Pure easily stands with Burnout Paradise as the best racing game of the year.
It still has a little of that “good enough” movie tie-in mentality. Makes little effort to incorporate the trademark Bond style into the maps or presentation.
The cartoony design of the boxers and comic book presentation is distinctive and attractive, but the concepts for the characters are out of the WWE reject pile.