Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Vigilante 8

Heres another oldie, but goodie. Released on June 8, 1998. I dont know why Nintendo dosent do this game for the Wii shop channel. And what happened to this style of game. Id love to see it came back, yeah ps2 had twisted metal black, but it was not as good as the Vigelante series and it came out ages ago in vidiogame standards. A remake for the Xbox 360 was going to be created by Isopod Labs, an independent company formed by the founders of Luxoflux, and was set to be released the summer of 2007 on xbox arcade. What happend to that?! Visually this game gets a 10 for its time. I loved how your car showed physical damage as you get beat up. That was so revolutionary! With its huge selection of cars (not to mention the unlockable cars) each with their own specal wepon, a massive arsenal of common wepons that you can hold 3 at a time (if memory servs correctly, but it may be even more). Pluss you can use each wepon in 3 diffrent ways. For example, you can fire the mortos regularly with the A button, or push up down A, for a homing mortor, or left right A for a powerfull crator forming mortar. The mines laid single, in a mine field or as a tractor beam trap. And for added fun, each level had a secret you can unlock to set traps, get upgrades, and just kick butt alltogether! Then in 1999 Vigilante 8 2nd offence introduced new cars, levels, and car upgrades to allow you to hover, get snow tire upgrades, and more that I cant really remember. So in closing, this game gets a solid 10 for gameplay, visuals and all around greatness!

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