Vigilante 8 (1998) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Vigilante 8

Vigilante 8 is a vehicular-combat game set in an alternate 1975. Australian terrorist Sid Burn is hired by OMAR to dispose of all competing oil companies in the U.S. so that OMAR can establish an oil monopoly…

40 1 June 1998

What Vigilante 8 is

Vigilante 8 is a shooter game developed by Luxoflux and released in 1998. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game's storyline is built around an alternate history, in which there was a worldwide oil crisis in the 1970s and the U.S. was on the verge of an economic breakdown. Strikes, riots and crime were rampant, and all available law enforcement were brought to the cities leaving the outlands vulnerable. A foreign multinational oil consortium, Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR), was determined to monopolize the world oil trade. The U.S. was the last country that stood in their way and they were prepared to go to any length to bring the U.S. to its knees. OMAR hired Sid Burn, a professional terrorist, to push the U.S. economy over the edge. Sid began to organize his troops in the remote areas…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Vigilante 8 holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average. Players rate it 57, 17 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.