Pure revolves around the Pure World Tour, a career mode of sorts. The World Tour consists of 10 stages with 50 events in all, and your aim is to make it to the top of the World Tour rankings by winning these events, broken up into Race, Sprint and Freestyle events. Race events consist of standard races of usually three laps around a full track. This event mode requires you focus equally on track position and tricks as tricks are the key to gaining boost and helping you stay ahead of the pack.
Sprint events consist of smaller, tighter tracks with more laps. These don’t include too many jumps and the best way to win these races is good, old-fashioned wheel-banging racing using the most effective racing line. The Freestyle events are all about tricks. Rather than track position, these events are won by accumulating points from tricks and putting combos together before your fuel tank runs dry. There are various pick-ups strewn across the track that help you to accumulate a bigger score. These pick ups grant you everything from special tricks and extra fuel to score multipliers.
The garage also comes into play in the World Tour. Winning races unlocks ATV parts which you can add to your quad in the garage. The vehicle customisation is extremely streamlined, user-friendly and easy. ATVs are split up into four classes and the first few stages of the World Tour require Class D ATVs, so those are the only engines you will have access to. As you progress through more stages, other engine classes become available to you, with Class A being the top of the line.
There's no currency involved in the garage so you can create as many ATVs as you want, provided you've unlocked enough ATV slots. Even different vehicle parts have various performance levels, with higher level parts drastically increasing one performance attribute, but at the same time reducing another. It's impossible to put together an ATV with good handling and trick attributes, so its best to have two ATVs for each engine class -- one with better handling and speed for Race and Sprint events, and the other with higher acceleration and trick attributes for Freestyle events.
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