1UP: Vigilante 8 Review

For all of the talk about Activision seeking "exploitable" franchises in recent days, here's one release that wouldn't seem to follow that business plan...at least not on the surface. Vigilante 8: Arcade is a mashup remake of sorts of Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense, a pair of PS2/N64/Dreamcast car-combat titles that debuted before the turn of the century and had not been touched by developers since. While the built-in thrills of the car-combat genre remain intact and the $10 price intrigues, little else has changed in the last decade or so -- more for worse than better.