Vigilante 8

by Activision Inc.

Product Features

• 1-2 Players
• Rated "T"
• Analog Controller Compatible
• Playstation One
• 2 Player Split Screen Option

Product Details

• ASIN: B00003E4G9
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,257 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Vigilante 8 is a beautiful shoot-'em-up driving game that also happens to be a lot of fun. The premise is fairly complicated: enter the level, drive around picking up weapons, and blast your opponents to kingdom come. Any questions?

There are several vehicles to control in the game, from a nimble dune buggy to a hard-to-kill pickup complete with camper. There's even a UFO in the two-player mode. Lining a target up in your sights is easy enough using the digital pad, and controlling the vehicle is even more smooth when you use the analog pads on a Dual Shock controller. You'll need all the help you can get, as the enemy vehicles are relentless.

Graphically this game is a stunner, with terrific lighting effects and over-the-top explosions. The sprawling environments you'll encounter are universally detailed and interactive. You'll slide sideways down a ski slope on a snowy mountain during one of the game's more frantic levels. Another fun challenge involves dodging incoming aircraft at the airplane graveyard in the dusty desert. Action fans will undoubtedly want to see the world from behind the wheel of the cars in Vigilante 8. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Terrific graphics and special effects
• Tear around in anything from a dune buggy to a UFO
• Interactive environments are a blast to play in

Cons:

• Single-player game can get a little boring

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Demolition Derby and Goldeneye-like Shoot-em-up All-In-One, May 25, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Vigilante 8 (Video Game)

When we got our Playstation one of the first games we got was Vigilante 8, just because it looked like dumb fun. We got fun alright, but it was anything but dumb. In this game you have an incredible arsenal of weapons to strap onto the back of your Corvette, school bus, or even flying saucer, the more weapons, the more damage to others(of course). You can play with only two players but that limitation is quicly made up with advantages. You're able to do missions as 12 out of the 13 characters, each of which has their own crazy persona. You have the disco idiot, the pyrotechnic guy, a cyborg lady, a man in seacrh of aliens, and a gambler. Each has their own car/truck/saucer with limitations and advantages. Other than missions, you can play single-player skirmish against up to four computer opponents (you can set the computer to come back after it get killed for up to three times). Also, you can do a two player skirmish, competitively in a one-on-one, or sooporatively against up to three opponents. As far as actual game play and control is concerned, the animation is just a little choppy at times, but it really isn't distracting at all. The controls are completely customizable, so you can set up different weapons on different buttons. On the topic of weapons, each character has the ability to have up to three weapons on their car at a time, each has access to picking up about a dozen or so weapons, and then each character has their own personal "special" weapon that the others can't have. the disco idiot has a disco ball that shoots lasers, a bee handler as radioactive bees that he sics on the opponent, and pyro has a turret that shoots fireballs. Oh, also, as you progress through the missions, you unlock up to five new characters and two new scenarios. The scenarios are great because they have specials of their own. For example, if you knock over a windmill on the farm level, the blade at the top flies at whoever you have targeted and damages them. If you blow up the grain silos, they go nuclear. You can ride in ski lifts on the ski slope level, go in the blimp on the Las Vegas like city, do almost any zany thing you can think of! There is no blood in the game as you are only blowing up cars. This game is one that can be played universally as just a fun all around game. THIS GAME IS A MUST-HAVE!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shoot-em up, October 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Vigilante 8 (Video Game)

I never thought GT2 and Madden 2001 would be out of my playstation this much. Vigilante 8 does just that. I didn't believe I would ever play another shoot-em up type of game but this one has been very well done. Its a 2 player versus each other or play missions to open new cars. Excellent game, especially at the price.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great two player action, November 30, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Vigilante 8 (Video Game)

This is one of my favorite Playstation titles. If you can master the handling of the flying saucer you'll have a blast! They should release a version with flying saucers on the attack as well, but you can only get that in the 2 player mode - head to head. The environmental effects are great. Knock towers over, smash buildings, make a train run off a cliff by blowing-up the bridge, get caught in tornados, avalanches, etc. It's a blast to navigate through.

Weapons are great. Next version should be KILLER!

Blows Twisted Metal (any version) out of the universe by a mile.