Vigilante 8 Arcade Due November 5
- Scribbled on October 8th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Driving/Racing, Game Videos, Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Release Date(s), Xbox Live Arcade
The official site of Vigilante 8 Arcade has posted a message that the game will be coming out on November 5 on Xbox Live Arcade.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, it’s a car combat game very much like Twisted Metal. Check out the above trailer for a taste of gameplay.
Click “Read more…” for the updated press release.
Car-combat lovers rejoice!
V8: Arcade is a remake of the classic V8 series of vehicular shooters by Luxoflux/Activision from the late 1990s: Vigilante 8 for PS1/N64 (1998) and Vigilante 8: Second Offense for PS1/N64/Dreamcast (1999).
V8: Arcade - Announcement Screenshot
V8: Arcade is a brand new re-imagining of the original themes and gameplay, engineered from the ground up for today’s hardware by the original founders of Luxoflux and V8 developers. Could things get any better? Absolutely, because quite soon, the magic of V8 car-combat will be available to millions of Xbox LIVE Arcade users via digital download, presented in cutting edge audio-visual splendor, and… at quite an affordable price, too!
In addition to local split-screen mode, multiple players will be able take their car-crushing skills online, competing and/or teaming up with other V8 players the world over!
Players will rediscover the joys of weapon-based off-road car mayhem by savoring the following features, currently being cooked up at the ‘labs’:
* Five newly designed, highly interactive arenas, using Bezier patch technology for maximum surface smoothness!
* Eight gorgeous, unlockable ‘70s vehicles, rendered using advanced metallic shaders at 10,000+ polygons each
* Classic V8 character personas and unique special weapons
* Six standard weapon pick-ups with three advanced attacks each, featuring both ‘classic’ (combo) and ‘casual’ (charge-up) input methods
* Collectible power-ups, salvage points, and alien rtifacts
* User-customizable car paint color
* Advanced car physics for hyper-semi-realism and ultra high replay value — easy to pick up, difficult to master!
* Spectacular pyrotechnic, destruction effects, and physics-driven interactive hazards
* Single player modes against bot AI
* Local split-screen modes up to four players
* Online multiplayer with up to eight human players, with headset and Xbox LIVE Vision camera support!
* Leaderboards, achievements, unlockable secrets, and more!
* Extra downloadable content (DLC)
The game is scheduled to release November 5, 2008 on Xbox LIVE Arcade.
V8: Arcade is rated T (Mild Violence) by the ESRB; 12+ by PEGI (EU), USK (Germany), Korea; and PG by OFLC (Australia).
Groovy, yes?
(Updated Oct 6, 2008)
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