The classic 70’s car battling extravaganza makes its next-gen debut. This generation of gaming is really blessed in terms of games and content. The Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii are filled to the brim with games featuring deep story lines, unparalleled graphics, and dynamic gameplay. Games like Fable II, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, and Little Big Planet have set the gaming world on fire this season. But it wasn’t so long ago that developers would take a few cars, bolt some weapons onto them, and let you loose on a level to just have at it. No multiple endings, no rich story, no earth shattering technical abilities. Just plain old car on car violence and at the time, nothing was sweeter. Activision is hoping to remind everyone just how great the good ‘ol days were with their remake of their hit franchise entitled Vigilante 8: Arcade.GameplayVigilante 8, along with Twisted Metal, was the mother of car battling games way back when. The concept was simple and incredibly fun. In principle, take the any burly man’s 2 favorite things in the world (guns and cars, with red meet coming in close at number 3) combine them, and let the magic the happen. The result was the birth of vehicular combat that helped make it a marquee genre during the years of N64 and the original Playstation.
In Vigilante 8: Arcade, players take control of 1 of 8 armored vehicles and battle it out in a variety of game modes. The main single player mode is Quest, which features a free for all of automotive destruction. Each level features an increasing number of enemy cars that need to be destroyed before getting to the final stage where a boss battle goes down. Then there’s the aptly titled Quick mode that lets you jump into a ...well..a quick battle, Custom battle which allows for choosing enemies and levels, and finally the Free Wheeling mode which lets gamers explore levels, enemy free, to find hidden alien artifacts. The game also features Deathmatch and Co-Op multiplayer modes, in both local and online varieties.Now Vigilante 8: Arcade isn’t really just a ported copy of the same Vigilante 8 which graced our Playstations and N64s back in the day. It’s more of a mash up of Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense. The 5 levels featured in Vigilante 8: Arcade are hybrids from levels taken from both previous games. Certain levels, like the Oil Fields, are brand new but are heavily influenced by older levels from previous games while other levels, such as Meteor Crash, are a combination of similar levels from both of the older games. This is a nice touch added to the game by the developers over at Isopod Labs to give Vigilante 8: Arcade its unique flavor. Instead of giving everyone a straightforward port of the game, they changed it up a bit and added their own take on the game to give it some new life. Kudos.
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