Vigilante 8 2Nd Offense

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1-4 PlayersProduct Description Combine Mad Max's anarchic road rules, Smokey and the Bandit's classic cat-and-mouse chases, a royal salute to the Dukes of Hazzard's car aerobatics, and you've got yourself the components for one entertaining auto combat game. The original Vigilante 8 was a critical success and now, after some under-the-hood tweaks, Vigilante 8: Second Offense rolls off the line with upgraded graphics and effects, and a load of new weapons, power-ups, and levels. Defeated by the vigilantes back in the '70s, the desert-dwelling Coyote gang is leaping into leader Slick Clyde's time machine to rewrite the past. And, naturally, they're taking an arsenal of futuristic weapons and surprises with them. Players cruise 12 different locations around the country in 18 '70s-era vehicles (and one futuristic hovercraft), each with a unique set of weapons and defenses. The single-player mode offers adventurous mini-missions that, inevitably, end up with all sorts of stuff blowing up. The multiplayer mode invites up to four players to join in on a free-for-all destruction derby. Review The original Vigilante 8 was perhaps the one car combat game last year that offered a truly fresh perspective on the genre. This time around, with Second Offense, the team at Luxoflux isn't content to merely add a few cars, throw together a few more levels, and ship a quick and dirty sequel. Instead, there are some major gameplay changes afoot in this sequel. The graphics have also been overhauled, adding cool new touches like specular highlights. But it all still feels like a very solid car combat game, just like the original V8. Vigilante 8 strapped you into one of twelve different cars, as you played as a member of the heroic Vigilantes, the villainous Coyotes, or the neutral Drifters in a '70s version of The Road Warrior. According to producer Murali Tegulapalle of Activision, Second Offense is "still going to be a vehicular combat game, and we're still going to have some key characters and '70s overtones from the original to keep it within the Vigilante universe. However, we'll also be adding new features, vehicles, characters, and so on, to take Vigilante 8 to the next level." The game takes on a futuristic play mechanic with the addition of Back To the Future-like hovering cars, which allows you fly to a certain extent. The storyline has a time travel element to it, and in fact, this game takes place before the first Vigilante 8. The Coyotes have travelled back in time in the hopes of defeating the Vigilantes before their big conflict even gets off the ground. Not just a rehash of the original, the second installment should be a whole new experience. Running on a rebuilt and modified version of the original engine, Second Offense brings new cameras, new power-ups, new weapons, and most, importantly, new vehicles and characters. There will be more new characters than old, with favorites from the original game returning as unlockable characters. As in the original, every character will have his own vehicle, mission objective, gang affiliation, stats, and special weapon. Along with the hoverpods, you can also pick up power-ups that turn your wheels into water-friendly rotors or snow treads. Graphically, the game has improvements over its predecessor with new effects like fog, brake lights, exhaust, water effects, and bigger, more-impressive explosions. On the Dreamcast, this game looks particularly gorgeous. There's still a bit of pop-up in the current beta version, but that will surely be improved before the game's release. In the sound department, Second Offense offers more of the '70s-inspired funk grooves that rocked the original, as well as refined and brand-new sound effects. One large improvement over the original will be a two-player version of the original's quest mode, with broader and more involving objectives. "In addition to one- and two-player quests," says Tegulapalle, "we'll also have several variants on the arc

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