Your blue sports car has twin guns in the grille, and the road ahead is full of drivers who want you gone. Mixed in with them are ordinary commuters you must not hit. Telling the two apart at speed is the real skill.
Highway Pursuit unblocked is a top-down driving shooter from Frank Force's LittleJS Arcade. The road bends at random and never ends, so every run is a little different.
How to play Highway Pursuit
Press Play and the car settles into a cruising speed. You can speed up or slow down, but after that first stretch it never drops below a minimum. Distance earns a steady trickle of points, and wrecking hostile cars earns much more.
Red cars with side blades are worth 200. Yellow cars with roof guns are worth 300 and fire back. Both take three hits. A chunky light blue armored car shrugs off bullets, so shove it off the road or slick it with oil for 500. The blue sedans and brown wagons are just commuters. Wreck one and you lose 750 and your multiplier drops to x1.
After three hostile kills your multiplier becomes x2, and after seven it becomes x3. Three lives to begin with, plus a bonus life each 10,000 points, with five as the cap. A collision with any car other than the armored one, or a bullet from a gunner, takes a life.
Controls
| To… | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steer | Left and right arrows, or A and D | Move the pointer left or right | Push the on-screen stick left or right |
| Speed up or slow down | Up and down arrows, or W and S | — | Hold the bottom button to speed up or the rightmost button to slow down |
| Fire the twin guns | Hold Space | Hold the left button | Hold the leftmost of the four buttons on the right |
| Drop an oil slick | Z | — | — |
| Release a smoke screen | X | — | — |
| Restart the run | R | — | Open the menu and tap Restart |
| Pause menu | Escape | Click the menu icon in the top corner | Tap the menu icon in the top corner |
Tips
- Let civilians clear your lane. Your guns only fire straight ahead, so wait for the sedan to drift off before you open up.
- Drop oil for tailgaters. The slick lands behind you and lasts eight seconds, wrecking anything that rolls over it.
- Pop smoke when surrounded. Cars inside the cloud swerve aimlessly, and gunners in it can't aim well.
- Stay glued to armored cars. Keep pushing into one's side; the shove builds until it slides off the road.
- Guard the x3. One stray shot into a civilian costs far more than 750 points once you count the lost multiplier.
Highway Pursuit questions
How do I earn oil slicks and smoke screens?
By wrecking enemies. Each fourth hostile you destroy gives one oil slick, and each sixth gives one smoke screen. You can hold five of each, shown at the right end of the bottom bar.
Does it get harder the farther I drive?
Yes. The share of hostile traffic rises with distance, and the gunners and armored cars appear more and more.
Can I play on a phone?
The touch stick and buttons cover steering, speed and the guns. Oil and smoke have no touch button, so use a keyboard or controller for the full kit.
