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Contents.Gameplay Console versions Players do combat over a number of stages located all over the western United States, whether in Story or Arcade Mode. Each stage has interactive features, such as ballistic missiles and launching planes for the level. Every vehicle is equipped with a machine gun by default, but players can add up to three out of five available weapons - mines, auto-cannons, rocket pods, mortars, and homing missiles, plus a special weapon unique to the vehicle.Three types of special attacks can be made using each of the five standard weapons, at a bigger cost in ammunition, by performing -style movements and button presses on the control pad. These attacks may be performed during normal play or to eliminate nearly-destroyed cars in a method called 'Totaling.' In line with the fighting-game style element, players can also score up to six combo hits called Whammies.There are special icons scattered across the playing field; wrenches repair damage and yellow zigzag lines temporarily jam the opponent's homing-based weapons.

Certain objectives in Story Mode must be completed to help unlock the game's secret characters and stages. The PlayStation version also offers players the option to play standard music CDs during a match.The Nintendo 64 version includes a story mode for Y The Alien and a fantasy stage called Super Dreamland 64, as well as three multiplayer modes (two vs. Two, three vs. One, and deathmatch) to take advantage of the system's four control ports, and a two-player Story Mode. A 480x360 hi-res mode is available from the pause menu if the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pack is installed. The Pack also enables a hidden 640x480 mode, available via password.Game Boy Color version The Game Boy Color (GBC) version features five levels, each one from the console versions: Casino City, Hoover Dam, Oil Fields, Ski Resort, and Valley Farms. The game also features five game modes, each one essentially identical, with only minor changes.

The game's main story mode, Road Trip, takes the player through each level. The game features three difficulty levels. The player can choose from five different weapons, as well as a unique weapon assigned to each character. The game features digitized audio and voiceovers, as well as a two-player mode made possible with the use of a. Unlike the console versions, obstacles and buildings cannot be blown up in the GBC version.

The game cartridge features a. Plot The game is set in an 1975, Sid Burn and his band of Coyotes are hired by OMAR to dispose of all competing oil companies in the U.S.

So that they can become the richest company in America. After hearing reports of destruction by the Coyotes, a man named Convoy, a kind-hearted trucker, forms a group of his own, the Vigilantes, to combat the Coyotes and to stop the tyranny of OMAR.Characters The game's protagonists are the Vigilantes, a group of residents from various southwestern US states who band together to preserve law and order in light of the chaos gripping the country. Their leader is Convoy, an old cowboy driving a semi truck. He is accompanied in the fight by his niece Sheila, Las Vegas high-roller John Torque, alien-obsessed Dave, Torque's friend Slick Clyde (whom he bullied to join the group) and agent Chassey Blue, who was assigned to investigate reports of gunbattles in the region.The game's antagonists are the Coyotes, a group of recruited to carry out OMAR's scheme by terrorizing commercial installations throughout the region using weaponry stolen from the ultra-secret base at in Nevada. Their founder is known Australian terrorist Sid Burn. His cohorts are disco dancer Boogie (a close associate), mentally-disturbed S4 test pilot Loki; Beezwax, a beekeeper frustrated by the irradiation of his beehive; Houston 3, a woman brainwashed as one of OMAR's assassins, and juvenile delinquent Molo, who is driving a stolen school bus and is desperate to join the Coyotes.An extraterrestrial being named Y The Alien appears in the game as a secret character.Ending Each character has his or her own ending, which is part of a bigger story. Molo successfully passes the Coyotes' initiation, only to be mocked as he is made to wash Sid's car.

Sid receives his payoff money from OMAR for his services, but is left stranded in the middle of nowhere because he is out of gas. John Torque finds him and stashes him in his trunk. Houston breaks free of OMAR's mind control and goes away with Convoy, who detaches the machineguns from his truck. Sheila barely misses them at a gas station and is forced to walk on the road, where Convoy and Houston pick her up. Clyde wears Houston's armband out of curiosity and emerges as the Coyotes' new leader.Chassey Blue embarks on a Hollywood career, releasing her self-titled movie based on the adventures of the Vigilantes.

An alien ship Dave in the middle of the night - and he beats his alien host in a round of. The police arrest Boogie and he is convicted on a number of charges.

Beezwax is elated at having acquired two, but dies when a stray bee lands on and stings one of the warhead's fuses, triggering an explosion. Loki finds a UFO and is eager to fly it, but it crashes and he is mistaken for a live alien UFO pilot. In the N64 version of the game, the ship Loki crashed is revealed to be that of Y The Alien, who was seeking extra fuel and parts for his ship after being stranded on Earth for some time looking for his friends.Development.

This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( July 2016) Vigilante 8 was developed with a team of only five people - Peter Morawiec, Adrian Stephens, David Goodrich, Jeremy Engleman, and Edward Toth.

A commercial for the N64 version was produced for its release in March 1999. It shows a school bus dropping off children at school followed by game footage of the bus in combat. The students wait for their bus at dismissal time, only to find it severely damaged when it arrives. The advertisement was withdrawn following the.Reception ReceptionReview scoresPublicationScoreN/AN/AN/A7/10N/A8.5/107.875/10N/A8.5/107.5/10N/AN/A92%N/AN/AB+A−7.1/107.9/108/106/108.2/108/10N/A7/107.9/10N/AN/AN/AAggregate score53%83%86%reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that 'The trite storyline and predictable characters add nothing to the proceedings, but then they don't need to, since Vigilante 8 is an immediate classic. Actually it's more fun than Interstate '76 and currently the best game of its type on PlayStation.'

Reviewed the Nintendo 64 version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that 'you're going to have lots of fun, and the single-player is no slouch either. If you're craving some driving action with guns for your N64, this is the title to get.'

Vigilante 8 received 'favorable' reviews on all platforms except the Game Boy Color version, which received 'mixed' reviews, according to the website. Ryan MacDonald of noted the easy control scheme and the well-designed graphics of the PlayStation version.

MacDonald noted that the game's offerings would give reason for players to 'retire' from. Shawn Smith of noted the N64 multiplayer mode offered more fun and ran relatively smoothly in high-resolution mode. Further information: andA sequel was produced, titled, released for the PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 in 1999.

A remake for the, titled, was created by, an independent company formed by the founders of. The game features a high-definition rendition of the past games plus some added multiplayer levels complete with an online mode. It was released onto on November 5, 2008. The developer of the two Vigilante 8 games, produced a game very similar to Vigilante 8 using the license (and the Vigilante 8 ), titled.References. ^ Nelson, Randy (June 4, 1998). Retrieved May 7, 2017. ^ Schneider, Peer (March 19, 1999).

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The future of auto-combat is here!It's September 1977, two years after the events of Vigilante 8. The southwestern United States has become peaceful in the wake of the Coyotes' defeat, but the Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime continues to dominate most of the global petroleum market, well into the 21st century.

It's up to Vigilantes to save the world again. Many of the previous characters that previously now have their own Campaigns - including Boogie, Dusty Earth, and Dave's Cultsmen! Choose from 18 all-new 70's and futuristic vehicles, and 8 new destructible arenas with hidden power-ups. If it drives by, blow it up!