Vigilante 8

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1-2 Players Rated "T" Analog Controller Compatible Playstation One 2 Player Split Screen OptionAmazon.com Vigilante 8 is a beautiful shoot-'em-up driving game that also happens to be a lot of fun. The premise is fairly complicated: enter the level, drive around picking up weapons, and blast your opponents to kingdom come. Any questions? There are several vehicles to control in the game, from a nimble dune buggy to a hard-to-kill pickup complete with camper. There's even a UFO in the two-player mode. Lining a target up in your sights is easy enough using the digital pad, and controlling the vehicle is even more smooth when you use the analog pads on a Dual Shock controller. You'll need all the help you can get, as the enemy vehicles are relentless. Graphically this game is a stunner, with terrific lighting effects and over-the-top explosions. The sprawling environments you'll encounter are universally detailed and interactive. You'll slide sideways down a ski slope on a snowy mountain during one of the game's more frantic levels. Another fun challenge involves dodging incoming aircraft at the airplane graveyard in the dusty desert. Action fans will undoubtedly want to see the world from behind the wheel of the cars in Vigilante 8. --T. Byrl BakerPros:Terrific graphics and special effects Tear around in anything from a dune buggy to a UFO Interactive environments are a blast to play in Cons:Single-player game can get a little boring Product description Tested and works. The game has scratches on the disc and is disc only Review A band of six desperadoes, known as the Coyotes, is wreaking havoc across the Southwest. A band of vigilantes, called, strangely enough, the Vigilantes, is bent on stopping the Coyotes by any means necessary. So all the players involved have mounted crazy government weaponry on their cars and gone into battle. There are two modes of play in Vigilante 8. The quest mode has you pick one of eight cars, each of which has four missions. For the Coyotes, these missions usually revolve around blowing something up; for the Vigilantes, protecting something. At the end of the four levels a very short ending is played, which tries to reveal a bit about the character's story, but usually just ends up being confusing. The arcade mode lets you drop right into the game, picking a level and how many cars you wish to face. Two players can also play the game simultaneously with a vertical split screen. The game can be played cooperatively or competitively. This, of course, is the main draw of the game. Each car handles differently and has its own special weapon. The special weapons fit with the personality of the car and its driver. Beezwax, the Arizona beekeeper furious at the government for irradiating and mutating his bees with nuclear tests, has a particularly deadly, nasty bee swarm weapon. Graphically, Vigilante 8 is amazing. The light sourcing used when lasers are fired and when the sun reflects off the cars looks fantastic. The most noticeable difference between Vigilante 8 and previous vehicular combat games is the fast frame rate of the game, although the major explosions and other crazy onscreen mayhem can slow the game down quite a bit. All of this carnage can be seen from two different camera angles: a cockpit view and a chase view. On the control side, Vigilante 8 is so easy to control, which really makes the game fun. You can use the game with the Dual Shock controller, which improves the control quite a bit. There are tons of different weapons that you pick up throughout the game. Each weapon also has two hidden moves that you can execute during play. However, these hidden moves aren't nearly as cheap and unbalanced as their Twisted Metal 2 counterparts. Overall, Vigilante 8 is an incredible two-player game. The one-player side of Vigilante 8 is short and easy, even on the most difficult setting. Players who are still playing Twisted Metal 2 can finally retire their TM2 disc and move over to Vigilante 8.--Ryan Mac Donald--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved.

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