


Two you can replay any already completed level. One you can save your progress if you have the controller pak. There’s three things I like about the Quest mode. You can still progress through the quest if you fail an objective but you need to complete them all to unlock additional characters and levels. Each level has an objective to complete like protect or destroy things. You choose a character and complete that character’s quest route.
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Vigilante 8 includes three difficulty modes, four if you include the one unlocked via password and several game modes for single player, 2 player, and multiplayer. To total a vehicle, you can hit it with a secret move or special weapon. At that point you have a limited amount of time to total it before it’s destroyed. If you manage to hit an opponent with multiple weapons simultaneously, that’s called a Whammy and when an opponent’s health is depleted, they enter a wrecked state. Each vehicle has a certain amount of health or armor.
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The Shield will protect you from damage, the Radar Jammer confuses enemy radar and homing weapons, the Weapon Upgrade doubles the amount of damage you inflict, and the Repair Wrench replenishes some health. Power-ups aid you and are activated upon pickup and most of them remain active for a limited time. Brown Crates can contain standard weapons or specials and Green Crates always give you your vehicle’s special weapon and each vehicle has it’s own unique special. Weapons come in the form of pickups and crates. However, you need to enter a combination of directional inputs to fire the secret moves which are more powerful and consume more ammo. Similar to Twisted Metal, if you pick up a weapon, it’s stored in your inventory and you fire it at the press of a button. There’s five weapons you can acquire, you can hold a max of three, and they each have secret moves. You can accelerate, brake, and turn and you can target opponent vehicles and switch targets at the press of a button.Įvery vehicle has a mounted machine gun and you can find weapons and power-ups in the levels. The levels are like arenas that you can drive around freely. Each vehicle has different stats in speed, armor, and tracking avoidance. Some vehicles struggle driving up certain inclines which can make driving around some levels frustrating. I do like the physics and each vehicle handles differently. Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat game where you drive around open environments and use weapons against your opponents. I do kind of like the faction war over oil thing because it makes me think of The Road Warrior. It kind of makes the game stand out in the genre, at least for the time it released. I do like the atmosphere and 1970s setting.

They each have a unique ending and exclusive to the Nintendo 64 game is a quest for Y the Alien. All of the levels are set in the western United States and there are multiple characters with their own vehicles to choose from. After hearing about the destruction a man named Convoy forms his own group called the Vigilantes and they set out to stop the Coyotes. Set in 1975, Sid Burn and his group known as the Coyotes are hired by a large oil company to dispose of the competition. It is compatible with the expansion pak, rumble pak, and controller pak. For this review, I played the Nintendo 64 version because it includes additional content. The game was also released for Game Boy Color in December, 1999. Developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision, Vigilante 8 was released for the PlayStation in June, 1998 and Nintendo 64 in March, 1999. I knew about Vigilante 8, though, but I was a Twisted Metal kid and didn’t get the chance to play it until years later. The internet tells me Vigilante 8 is a spin off of Interstate ’76 but I wasn’t aware of the Interstate games back then.
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Vehicular combat is a niche genre nowadays but it was pretty big in the nineties because of three games or series – Twisted Metal, Carmageddon, and Vigilante 8.
