V8 Arcade: The best next-gen game out there

[torkworld]

What's new? Not much.

But they put a lot of work into fixing what was broken.

Here are the most notable changes I've found so far:

1. Snow treads/water skis - GONE

2. Long range radar weapons actually work (and the maps have spots where you can camp/snipe)

3. Ramming a car bigger than you takes a LOT more of your life bar (as does anything that hits your car - it's more realistic). You can't go ramming things and flipping your car at will anymore.

4. The controls - the trigger buttons are your gas and brakes (like on Crazy Taxi) and the face buttons are assigned to specific weapons (like on Zelda games)

5. It does NOT crash! - I've done things that would make the Dreamcast/N64 games crash and cringed, but it stayed running. It does have moments where the camera gets lost but it keeps attempting until it figures a way out (which it always does).

6. Graphically the draw-in has been (almost) completely eliminated. The detail is basicially just Dreamcast quality with a solid framerate.

7. The maps are mashups of the old levels. They took 2-3 levels and mixed their elements together for every map. The powerups have all been moved too (think Zelda:OoT Master Quest). The maps are well-thought out and now have more destructable elements (you can blast a certain area and open secret tunnels etc)

The only negatives...

1. The music was lifted almost directly from 2nd Offense, but not the full tracks - just looped snippets. I guess they did it to keep the download size down (the game's like 100 MB)

2. Am I the only V8 fanatic out there? There's nobody to play with online LOL



I didn't realize it would end up being this long
You guys should post this on the nbrid front page.

[bonesquad]

Done.

http://www.nbrid.net/node/584






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[Hybrid]

The fact that it doesn't crash randomly already makes it the greatest V8 ever. I don't plan on buying it, but there were some good times back in the day.

[torkworld]

I found an online game and got PWNED really bad

[bonesquad]

Sad day... no more Luxoflux.

http://www.joystickdivision.com/2010/02/activision_cuts_staff_closes_s.php

[torkworld]

EDIT:

The original Luxoflux founders left long ago and created Isopod Labs, they're the ones that made the XBLA version.

What will this do to the planned next edition of True Crime? hmm..