Vigilante 8

"Great game with lots of replay value"

When I bought my playstation I actually never heard of the game, until I played it at a friend. He rented the game for 3 days because he was looking for an action game.

We started playing with the co-op mode, which was a little bit hard for us, we thought the game was kinda crap cause we didn't know what to do. So after getting our ass kicked, we started playing against eachother which was a lot better. We managed to learn how to play the game and actually it was quite fun, so after 2 hours playing we decided to do the co-op mode again, and yes it was great fun, blasting those bots to pieces with our special guns :). When we had to brought the game back i decided to get a copy of the game from the store and we played it like 3 weeks non-stop.

Gameplay: The game is all about driving in a car blasting other cars to pieces. You gotta choose a car out of a large line of characters. There are 2 different teams who fight against each other: The Vigilantes and The Coyotes. Everyone got their own stats and special weapon which make them all unique. After choosing your character and map you are about to kill the other bots. There are weapons on the map which you can pick up and use to blast the bots. Some are more powerful than others, while others are homing-missiles which hit more often. I personally more like the homing-missiles.
The maps are fun to play and the bots are nor easy nor hard. This is probably the best aspect of the game
Rating: 10/10

Graphics: The graphics are not really special actually, but they are pretty good. The missiles look really good and the cars look great too. The maps are looking good while some pieces of the map are looking the same as other pieces of the map. The maps all have a different atmosphere, which adds some kind of feeling to the map. I more like dark maps, don't know why, but the lighter ones are lesser fun.
Rating: 9/10

Sound: The sound is pretty good too, while not spectacular either. The music adds some kind of feeling, because their are different types of music where you can choose from, some are groovy, and some are more exciting.
The characters say lines of text when they fire their special attack which gives you a good laugh when you hear it for the first time.
Rating: 9/10

Replay: The game got a lot of replay value. There is a story mode for every character. there is a arcade mode where you can select the amount of bots and the map. There is a 2 player versus and co-op mode. This game is great fun with friends which adds a lot of replay value to the game
Rating: 10/10

Overall Rent or Buy: A great action/racing game with a lot of replay value and good graphics and sound. If you are alone and don't like one of the both genres, then you should give it a rent, if you got a lot of friends and like both genres then this is a must-have.

Overall: 10/10 cause gameplay and replay goes 1st :)

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/28/03