Take the wheel as fully-loaded auto combat revs into high gear with Vigilante 8: Arcade. Multiple special weapons let you wreak havoc on five newly-designed and destructible arenas. Complete the single player Quest story mode or test your car-crushing skills in local and LIVE multiplayer versus or co-op modes. Rebuilt from the ground up, V8: Arcade is modern vehicular warfare at its finest! There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www. Buy Xbox content on Xbox.
Vigilante 8, returns with a full-blown sequel on no less than three consoles. Dubbed Second Offense, the new game's time-traveling story line merges 70s' muscle cars with future technologies like hoverpods and wheel-mounted ski treads. Eight V8 veterans return to battle 10 new characters in 12 arenas across the country, including a nuclear power plant and the Louisiana Bayou.
The sequel sports a moon buggy, motor home, garbage truck, and more than a dozen other vicious vehicles. Sadly, the school bus might not make the final cut due to concerns over youth violence. Graphics are in for a boost across the board with enhanced explosions and better details like exhaust and brake lights , and the controls will be tuned a bit. Also, more attention is being paid to the single-player Quest mode by equipping it with larger levels and more interesting missions.
Dreamcast and N64 owners will get a few extra gameplay modes as well as four-player split-screen action. Gamers get to take Offense this October.
A group of destructive desperados known as the Coyotes are going from city to city trying to make the US into a gigantic junkyard and the only ones who can prevent this destruction are the Vigilantes. Not to fear though, you can get an assortment of missile and laser-based weapons in the form of pick-ups you run over all across the terrain. In order to use these weapons effectively however you need to master the degree turn, which requires the hand brake. This allows you to quickly turn on an enemy trying to snuff you out and to use some of the nifty gadgets you just picked up.
Drive control is especially sweet with the dual analog controller where the left stick handles forward, reverse, and steering. The buttons control changing weapons, firing, breaking, and acceleration. The physics engine is incredible, with each vehicle having its own driving characteristics and suspension.
There are a couple of different modes to choose from. The quest mode lets you pick one of nine colorful characters, complete with a hip looking car.
Each quest is four missions long where you try to accomplish the two or three objectives set before you. Accomplishing the quest unlocks a new character or weapon. If you want to butt heads against some flesh and bone however, there is a VS.
They did a "groovy" job on the terrain and exploring it will keep you occupied as you try to trigger cool events like your car skiing off a giant jump , look for secret weapons, and find strategic spots. The weapons you pick up have the obvious abilities but some of them also have special abilities where you hit a certain key combination and they do extra damage or shoot extra rounds.
Although the one-player can be a lot of fun, the real thrill of playing car combat games comes from the multiplayer mode s , and Vigilante 8 is no different in this respect. The four-player modes are easy to get into thanks to the four controller ports already available on the N64, and from what we've seen so far, the frame-rate doesn't suffer much from the intense graphics.
Do you remember the Seventies? Big haircuts, bigger trousers, Party Sevens, chunky medallions and hugely impractical shoes. Oh, and if Vigilante 8 is to be believed, gangs of heavily-armed motorists running riot in the western United States. Well, sounds a lot more fun than the real thing! Converted from the PlayStation game, which itself was based on the PC title Interstate '76, Vigilante 8 is set in an alternate s where groups of Mad Max-style automotive terrorists are blasting around the place, blowing stuff up and being generally troublesome.
The Coyotes for 'tis they are attempting to seize control of America's depleting oil supplies, and a group of vigilantes named, thrillingly, the Vigilantes hired by the citizenry is trying to stop them. That's what passes for a plot. Not that it matters. Once you get into the game, things are very simple - if it's got wheels, blow it up! Each vehicle in Vigilante S's world comes complete with its very own factory-fitted machine gun and enough ammunition to fight a small war.
This might sound ideal for those fed up of being caught in jams on the M25, but In the harsh world of s America it's not nearly deadly enough. Luckily, your car can also support up to three bolt-on weapons systems as well, and as luck would have it these are scattered liberally throughout the landscape for you to find.
In addition to these, each car has its own distinctive superweapon - these only have a limited number of shots, but anything hit by them will be heading to the nearest scrapyard quicker than you can say "Starsky".
Vigilante 8 supports up to four players. The one-player game has three modes: Quest, Arcade and Survival. Arcade is a straightforward 'kill 'em all' rampage on a single level, while Survival pits, you against waves of increasing numbers of enemies. The aim is just to see how long you can last before being blown to pieces!
The Quest mode is the real meat of the game. In this, each character visits four different stages to fulfil their own agendas - whether it's making it big in Hollywood or being taken away by extraterrestrials - by destroying particular enemies and defending certain buildings from attack or, if you're playing as one of the Coyotes, by blasting them to atoms. Completing each character's mission is the key to unlocking the hidden characters within the game, shown by a little league table affair in the Options menu.
Completing a mission also unlocks a 'movie', although it's really just a bunch of still pictures with some text scrolling underneath. No FMV for you, Nintendo boy. One nice feature is the way that the missions can also be completed in the two-player co-operative game, which obviously makes things a lot easier. Dealing with multiple enemies can be tricky, especially when they're all ganging up on you, so having a mate to draw their fire and pop up for sneak attacks not only adds to the fun of the game, but makes those secrets much more accessible.
The four-player game is tremendous fun - it's almost Goldeneye on wheels. All the terrain and obstacles in the one-player game are present, so smart players can use level features like flame jets or tidal waves to their advantage. Incredibly, Vigilante 8 manages to keep the speed up even with four people blasting away at each other. There is occasional slowdown when things get really hectic, but for the most part multiplayer games are as fast as the one-player game, at the slight expense of framerate.
Even without an Expansion Pak, Vigilante 8 has looks on its side. The scenery is well-detailed plus almost all of it can be destroyed and varied, and annoyances like fogging are kept to a minimum by the clever way the landscapes are drawn - distant scenery is filled in as a coloured silhouette, so its shape obscures the sky backdrops without slowing things down.
As you get closer, the textures gradually fade in. It doesn't completely eliminate pop-up, but it's a damn sight better than having everything vanish into a Turok-style haze. Everyone was talking about this awesome new game and that it was nothing like you had ever seen before. Surprisingly, it was nothing like I had seen before and up to the release of Twisted Metal 2 it is nothing like I have seen since, until now. Nearly three years later, somebody Activision has finally stepped up and released a game that not only challenges the Twisted Metal series but surpasses it in many respects.
So sit back, strap on a rocket launcher and get ready to hit the mean streets of Vigilante 8 takes place in during a major oil shortage. Since we US citizens love our vehicles, we depend on oil, not to mention the US economy thrives off of it.
The shortages were causing people to do whatever it took to get their hand on fuel resulting in riots and crime. All law enforcement personnel were gathered in the major metropolitan areas which left the outlying areas unprotected. It turns out that the oil shortage was mandated by a foreign consortium that was seeking to control the world's trade. After a period of time, the good folks that lived in these outlying areas were tired of the hell that Sid and his gang were raising so they decided to fight back.
As if this is not enough, the US Government has been developing a new arsenal for the military based on UFO technology. Sid tries to break in and steal these weapons but the resistance group shows up and blows the party. In the chaos and fighting, the weapons manage to get spread out across the land and they can be commanded by those who obtain them.
What happens next is really up to you. Normally, I don't spend that much time setting up the scene for a game. The back stories are usually a stretch and don't have much to do with the actual gameplay. The story in Vigilante 8 has everything to do with the gameplay so I felt it was an important part of the game. As you play the game, you will now understand why your missions are what they are and you will also understand the different environments you will be up against.
This game is basically broken up into two different modes with two different teams. You can either play as a Coyote, one of Sid's team, and try to bring down the economy or you can play as one of the Vigilantes who tried to stop the Coyotes from succeeding. Each side has four different cars to choose from before unlocking the extras. Your team is determined by which of the cars you choose and it also determines your mission in quest mode. Quest mode is one of the two available modes and is the best one-player mode.
You basically pick your car and depending on whether you choose a Vigilante or Coyote, you will have a series of missions to perform. If you pick a Vigilante, your mission has you protecting certain landmarks or installations from the Coyotes. If you pick a Coyote, your mission will have you blasting targets that are critical to the US economy.
Depending on which gang you choose to represent, you will only be opposed by members of the other gangs. For example, if you choose to be a Coyote, all of your opponents will be from the Vigilantes. Got it? The second mode is the Arcade mode. This is basically a battle to the death. You pick your car and then you pick the cars you want to go up against and then you just go at it.
In the arcade mode you can select up to 12 enemy vehicles to battle against. The whole gang concept is now thrown out the window and it is now every man and woman for themselves. Unfortunately, you are everyone's primary target and they all come after you and pretty much leave each other alone. I thought this was kind of lame because you were the center of everyone's attention instead of keeping the fighting spread out among everyone. I may have gotten a little ahead of myself.
I have not really described what type of game this is. If you have never heard of or played Twisted Metal , you have no clue what to expect. This game is a vehicular combat game. That means you drive around in a vehicle and have combat with other vehicles. All of the vehicles have a standard machine gun but you can find weapons out in the playing environment and use them. The object of the game is different depending on the game mode you choose but the underlying object is always the same: stay alive while blasting the stuff out of your opponents.
As with Twisted Metal , the vehicles are a big part of the game. One thing that TM did that made it so cool was that the different vehicles and characters were easily recognizable.
You knew who was who by what they drove and what their special attacks were. Vigilante 8 tries to do the same thing but I feel falls a little bit short. I think they did do a good job with the different vehicles but for the most part, you don't really get the same feeling of association. There are a couple of drivers who are quite noticeable and you will remember them, like Beezwax, an old bee keeper who drives a clunky old pickup truck with a camper on the back. You could always remember this guy when he comes barreling down on you.
One of the great things about this game is that everything is destructible. You can blast the crap out of anything and everything. Nothing is safe. See that tree? Blast it. That little shed? See ya. If you can see it, you can pretty much rest assured that it will blow up.
This was so cool because I would spend a lot of time riding around blowing stuff up just to find hidden weapons. I think that this is probably the single coolest thing about this game. Another thing that I really thought was incredible was the weapons.
I am not talking about just the weapons themselves but the way they look on your vehicle. Whenever you pick up a new weapon, you actually see if affix to your vehicle. When you run out of ammo, you see the weapon fall off the car. There are even weapons that will knock the weapons off of your opponents vehicle so you can pick them up. It was great because you do not have to cycle through a list of available weapons. All you need to do is look at your vehicle and you will know what was available.
Game score 7. Expectations before the premiere: 7. Skip to content. At the start of the game, the player can choose his car and get into the game world… read more. The game mixes the vehicular combat with role-playing elements, enabling you to navigate the post-apocalyptic world in modified motorcycles, tanks, cars, and semis. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the stunning environments.
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