Vigilante 8 Review

For PlayStation

Rating: Average
   Quite frankly, Vigilante 8 a Twisted Metal rip-off with 
really bad control.  It's a straightforward vehicular combat
game in which you go around destroying other cars.  The 
biggest problem with the game is that it's just so darn hard
to control.  Your vehicle will begin skidding around or go 
flying of a hill with no notice or reason at all, and 
pulling off the essential U-Turn that is so easy to do in 
Twisted Metal 2 is a needlessly painful chore in Vigilante 8.
Almost everything in this game seems to scream out at the 
player, "I've been done before (in Twisted Metal 2), and 
done much better than this, too!"  The levels are nowhere 
near as cool as those in TM2, and the same can be said of 
the vehicles themselves and the characters in them.  Even 
the weapons aren't half as good as those in TM2.  In 
addition, Vigilante 8's Artificial Intelligence sucks really
really bad.  Most of the time, the computer-controlled 
vehicles simply approach you and then basically sit there 
waiting for you to kill them.  Also, the music doesn't fit 
in with the action and seems out of place in Vigilante 8, 
and the story line isn't good enough to make you care.  
If Activision didn't want this game to be part of the 
Interstate 76 series, why did they rip off I76's story line?
The only two things this game has going for it are the solid
graphics and the completely interactive environments.  
Almost everything in the game can be damaged or destroyed, 
from lamp posts to hotel complexes.  While it can be good 
fun just cruising around and destroying everything in sight,
the game quickly gets tiresome because the control sucks, 
the computer vehicles are stupid as can be, and the entire 
experience is just a poor rip-off of Twisted Metal 2.
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