Badass PlayStation Combat in Vigilante 8
Here's a new look at Activision's Vigilante 8.
Activision sent GameSpot News a look at its upcoming driving combat title for the Sony PlayStation, Vigilante 8.
Players are hurled into the dust of the American Southwest circa 1975 where a motorized gang focuses on destroying strategic targets like oil refineries and other industrial and commercial areas. A small group of citizens, the Vigilantes, decides to take on the gang with its own brand of justice in some tricked-out, badass automobiles. Combat travels from the Colorado Rockies all the way to California's farmlands.
Features of the game include a fast new 3D engine that sports "fully destructible" environments, graphical enhancements like lens flares, real-time reflection mapping, terrain deformation, and intense explosions (explosions in any game are always a good thing in our book). If the game looks anything like the screenshots, it's a good jump ahead of similar games in the genre like Twisted Metal 2.
Players can also compete in split-screen multiplayer matches, armed with a choice of 12 supercharged V8 cars with enough ammo to make an Apache look like a toy from Fisher Price (examples include: a camper with killer bees and a school bus that emits poisonous gas), two modes of gameplay, and multiple camera angles.
The game also has 1970s-type satirical characters whose personalities go into high gear during combat. After Activision's mega hit Interstate 76, you know what to expect.
Vigilante 8 is slated to blow onto a retail shelf sometime in March 1998 for US$59.99
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