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Vigilante 8: Arcade

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Game Info

Publisher: Activision

Developer: Isopod Labs

Genre(s): Action, Racing

Players: 8

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 5, 2008

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Take the wheel as fully-loaded auto combat revs into high gear with Vigilante 8: Arcade. It's a down and dirty war on wheels where everyone's riding shotgun. This brand new remake of the classic Vigilante 8 game lets you choose from among eight tricked-out retro-fine 70s vehicles with some serious firepower. Multiple special weapons let you wreak havoc on five newly-designed and destructible arenas. Complete the single player Quest story mode or test your car-crushing skills in local and Xbox LIVE multiplayer versus or co-op modes. Rebuilt from the ground up, V8: Arcade is modern vehicular warfare at its finest! [Activision]

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What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

Vigilante 8: Arcade is a glorious throwback to a simpler age in gaming, one that older gamers can appreciate and younger gamers can discover. It will only be as fun for as long as the Live community is there to support it but it's damn fun, so jump on while it lasts.

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IGN

Vigilante 8: Arcade is one of those titles that simply isn’t as fun as you remember it being. It’s not a bad game and it’s great as a novel piece of nostalgia, but the gameplay itself doesn’t hold up all that well.

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Game Chronicles

Although Vigilante 8 Arcade for XBLA maintains the spirit of chaos and destruction of it's 1998 namesake, it lacks the polish one would expect from a game released for a 7th generation platform. However, if you and your friends have an insatiable urge to blow each other up in glorious vehicular combat but you don't want to throw down $60 each for GTA IV, this is certainly a viable alternative that could easily fill a few hours.

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Talk Xbox

Vigilante 8: Arcade sets out to be an exercise in updated, nostalgic goodness, but ends up falling short.

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Team Xbox

To a jaded, seen-it-all gamer like yours truly, it seems like a good idea that didn’t get executed to enough of an extent. A completely redesigned Vigilante 8 game with next-gen graphics and physics would be super awesome, if you ask me. But probably not appropriate for Xbox Live. This one is definitely meant for those who truly can’t let go of their childhood.

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Official Xbox Magazine

Problems — like a confusing camera (which, for whatever reason, is significantly better in mega-fun split-screen play), slippery vehicles that clip through the ground, and a mere five arenas on which to destroy opponents — make Vigilante 8 a questionable $10 purchase. But competitive smack-talk-athons and co-op multiplayer are a blast thanks to the diverse array of attacks.

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X360 Magazine UK

Although it's undeniably fun, the gameplay hasn't aged that well and after 30 minutes or so your eyelids will start to get heavy and fatigue sets in. [Issue#40, p.114]

Console Monster

Vigilante 8 may have been good for its time, but sadly not for 2008. There are much better racing games available on the Xbox LIVE Arcade though if you liked the original or enjoyed the trial, it may be worth the 800 Microsoft Points price tag.

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Cheat Code Central

Nostalgia-stricken fans of the original might be able to look past Vigilante 8's deficiencies and find some fun to be had, but those unfamiliar with the aged gameplay won't be won over by the slicker presentation.

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GamePro

What saves this title is the nostalgia factor you get from playing it. While the love for this genre is the redeeming factor, it still doesn't give it enough oomph to justify downloading it.

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1UP

Sadly, aside from the malaise-inducing offline modes, most of Vigilante 8: Arcade's issues are technical in nature. Framerate drops, floaty steering and physics, a shaky camera, and environmental clipping are all things you'd expect to be addressed by release (some are likely leftover from the earlier releases), and with just five total arenas available until the premium DLC comes out, it's hard to believe that gamers will stick around long enough to make Vigilante 8: Arcade an essential Live Arcade purchase.

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Eurogamer

It's never going to be a game I'd recommend though, purely because fundamental elements like control and camera are so frustratingly unpolished.

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GameSpot

A new coat of paint can't save this busted and broken remake.

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Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

A decent, mindless rampage online for the converted. [Feb 2009, p.104]

Gaming Nexus

One of the best car combat games of the 1990s has been reduced to an arcade game with awful control and terrible glitches.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.4 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Hieu T. gave it a9:
looks great for an XBLA game. I like the multiplayer the best. My friends and I took the day off and have been playing this non stop! (big fans of the original) I'm happy we're getting more multiplayer games like this on xbox live arcade. I definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a fun game to play with their friends. Plus points for the price ( 10 bucks!! ).

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