Sid Burn's former lover, arms smuggler Nina Loco, is a new addition to the Coyotes, having safeguarded most of the advanced weapons they stole in the first game. His underlings in 2017 are Japanese orphan Obake and cyborg Dallas 13, who is revealed to be Obake's close friend Darius but disappeared after a mistake during the Stanford University heist. The game's main antagonist is ex-Vigilante Slick Clyde, who now leads the Coyotes after finding Houston's old mind-control armband. The Vigilantes are supplanted by the Flying All-Star Trio (Team FAST), black stunt performers who are actually Houston's long-lost siblings, and Dave's Cultsmen, a trio of hippie followers idolizing Vigilante 8 character Dave. Returning Vigilante characters include gambler-turned- bounty hunter John Torque, and Convoy's rebellious niece Sheila. Its leader, Convoy, marries ex-Coyote Houston and runs a trucking business, but apparently dies when the Coyotes ambush them on September 17, 1977. The game's protagonists are the Vigilantes, which had been all but disbanded following the events of the first game. Boogie, Dusty Earth, and Dave's Cultsmen are only available in multiplayer mode. Many of the characters that previously appeared in Vigilante 8 reappear and have their own Quest Mode campaigns. He plans to change history by stealing prototype time machines from Stanford University's quantum physics lab, travel back to the 1970s, and eliminate the Vigilantes to ensure OMAR's supremacy. With new Coyotes leader Slick Clyde leading OMAR during the twilight of his life by 2017, Clyde thinks that a failure to conquer America (which has adopted nuclear and sustainable energy) would be his biggest regret. The southwestern United States has become peaceful in the wake of the Coyotes' defeat, but the Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR) continues to dominate most of the global petroleum market, well into the 21st century. The game is set in September 1977, two years after the events of Vigilante 8. Aside from being able to play music CDs, the player can also access the Vigilante 8 levels for multiplayer matches by inserting the game disc.
The Totaling and Whammy combat modes from the first game are also retained, as is the concept of stages with interactive features.Ĭompleting secondary objectives in Quest Mode would also help unlock secret characters.
The original game's five standard weapons - mines, rockets, autocannons, homing missiles, and mortars - are now supplanted by flamethrowers, with each weapon now capable of performing three special attacks using movements on the control pad.
Special icons scattered over the game zone allows the player to improve mobility over certain environments, such as hover pods, skis, and outboard motors. The vehicle's external appearance also improves with more Salvage Points and turns into a totally different design when it is fully upgraded.
VIGILANTE 8 CONVOY UPGRADE
Second Offense introduced the "Salvage Points" system, which allows the player to upgrade their vehicle by collecting Salvage Points from destroyed opponents, improving the vehicle's offense, defense, speed, and targeting abilities. The game also offers a new two-player cooperative mode and a Grand Melee Deathmatch mode, wherein the player endures attacks by multiple AI opponents. The player can choose to play through a story mode, Quest Mode, or play with an assorted number of bots in Arcade mode. GameplayĪs in Vigilante 8, players will control a vehicle and eliminate all other vehicles in the arena with the use of weapons and upgrades.
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (known as ヴィジランテ8〜セカンドバトル〜 (Vigilante 8 2nd Battle) in Japan) is a vehicular combat video game developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision released for the PlayStation, Dreamcast and the Nintendo 64 on December 1, 1999.