In the Ski Resort stage, ride the cable car to the top of the mountain and then rain missiles on your opponents.In the Ghost Town level, follow the trains and shoot the crates off the flatbed car to collect some awesome firepower.This should keep any planes from taking off. Drop land mines along the runways in the Aircraft Graveyard stage.Don't drop land mines in a careless fashion you could run over them by mistake and damage your own car.If the controls had spent more time in the shop, V8 could have been one topnotch lean, mean driving machine. Overall, Vigilante 8 is worth a test-drive rental for fans of the genre. You choose from one of eight crazed drivers and their specialized muscle cars, including a Cleopatra Jones-ish cyborg in a 75 Palomino and a beauty queen turned F.B.I. V8's minimal plot pits Vigilantes (the good guys) against Coyotes (the bad guys) for control of the country's oil reserves. It's also easy to get hung up on a tight incline or in a corner where all you can do is helplessly scream "Move!" at the screen. Taking tight high-speed turns is a chore, and peeling around 180 degrees is almost impossible. The airplane graveyard, for instance, has vintage B-52 bombers you can chase down the runway and blow to pieces as they try to take off.Įven though V8's graphics scream, sluggish and inaccurate controls frequently stall the fun. That's a real shame, because V8 has some of the best graphics and level designs of any vehicle shooter for the PlayStation yet: Pop-up and clipping problems are kept to a minimum, huge explosions fill the screen, and the interactive stage elemerits will make you blink in disbelief.
Vigilante 8 injects some high-octane visual excitement into the combat/vehide genre, but it falls short of the Twisted Metal hall of fame due to faulty controls. Right now, the two-player game is only one-on-one, but that may change to become a free-for-all that may include up to four more cpu opponents (for a total of six cars in battle). Vigilante 8 will include a One-player Quest Mode (where you follow a character's story line), a One-player Arcade Mode (where you can just jump in and fight against one to four other cars) and a Two-player Mode. It's extremely detailed and realistic-it really must be seen and played to be appreciated. In other words, this game engine is one of the finest we've seen in a while. You can almost feel the bumpy or slippery terrain underneath your wheels. You can start avalanches on the snowy mountains. If you get.ahem, rear-ended, your tail pipe and bumpers can be knocked loose. When you get shot, you can see the bullet holes. When you damage the front end, your hood can pop loose. What really distinguishes this game from its competition, however, isn't the cars or the weapons it's the awesome game engine.
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