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The succesor to Twisted Metal is back with a second installment.

Vigilante 8: Second Offense

Vital Stats

Publisher Activision
Developer Lexoflux
Genre Action
# of Players 2
Expected release date Fall 1999

When it was released, Vigilante 8 quickly toppled the car-combat genre with its objective-based missions, interactive backgrounds, and extremely fun car combat action.

With Second Offense, Activision looks to keep the combat intact, while spicing up the overall feel and scope of the game. With more vehicles and more weapons than before, Second Offense has also grown in geographic size. Terrain now spans across the US with more levels and more detailed environments. What this means dear fans is that more of the great outdoors will likely be crumbling upon your sorry heads.

The Lexoflux development team has its work cut out for it because after all, Vigilante 8 was a beautiful game. Hopefully, the team will squeeze out more special effects from the PlayStation without losing frame rates, and can dig deeper into the low level programming aspect of the game to increase enemy AI, enhance car physics, and realize more detail and color from this exceptional engine. With new power-ups, weapons, special moves and additional modes of play, in addition to improved graphic detail such as water effects, fog, exhaust, and brake lights, the game promises to be a real treat.