Spare Change. The column where the games of yester year, or yester month, become new again to be snapped up in your grubby shoe shining fingers for the few pennies left after your daily bread.

Okay maybe not that depressing a situation. But if you’re interested in what’s available at a budget price you might have missed the first time around and own a PSP, read on.

Do you know those great chase missions in games like GTA and Saints Row where you’re driving and shooting and failing to blink as you wrestle car to car with your opponent? Those ones that harken back to the classic racing action games of your arcade days, right down to nasty difficulty? Well Pursuit Force is basically that part of the game with all the other bits cut out. Sure there’s some on foot action. But ninety percent of the time Pursuit Force sees you behind the wheel chasing down or being chased by bad guys at speeds which would cause your grandmother to have an aneurysm. Boats, cars, motorbikes, trucks, if it goes fast and crashes into stuff chances are you'll drive it in this game.

Pursuit Force is the name of a new police unit in the games fictional city dedicated to, well, chasing down criminals and shooting them until dead. No Miranda rights or due process here. The unit seems to be made of you, in your spiffy police issue race car driver outfit, and a hot blonde officer who occasionally radios you with information. In my case to criticise my driving quite often, so I guess she must be your wife in the game. The chief also pipes in about how much you suck from time to time as well.

It not all just driving and shooting though, when you come in contact with another vehicle a quick button press allows you to leap from your vehicle onto theirs and from there you need to the driver and hijack the vehicle before they shoot you or shake you off the car. The very arcade like gameplay is fast exciting and easy to enjoy. You don’t have to drive to missions or anything like that with your new fangled open world games; Pursuit Force keeps it retro with old fashioned level structures and high scores.

Graphically it’s pretty impressive for a PSP title and the various gangs and characters you interact with are comically stereotyped. In fact its hard at times to know if you’re supposed to take the game seriously or not. You tackle missions by gangs, selecting which gang to concentrate on and then choosing a mission. At the start there are only two gangs and a handful of missions to choose on but this quickly expands as you climb the ranks.To give you some idea, one of the gangs is assault weapon toting busty ladies who used to be stunt drivers and turned to a life of crime.

And that’s it, sorry if you wanted more information but it’s a pretty shallow, if extremely fun, game. Considering I got my copy for the same cost as a game rental from the local video shop I certainly can’t fault the value for money. If you like fast paced games and think racers would be more fun if you could jump on the other guys car and shoot him to death then Pursuit Force is your kind of game.