Vigilante 8: Arcade is a shooter developed by Isopod Labs, released 5 November 2008 on Xbox 360.
What Vigilante 8: Arcade is
Vigilante 8: Arcade is a shooter game developed by Isopod Labs and released in 2008. It was published by Activision. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 re-make 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 LIVE multiplayer versus or co-op modes. Rebuilt from the ground up, V8: Arcade is modern vehicular warfare at its finest!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Vigilante 8: Arcade holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Vigilante 8: Arcade launched on 5 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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