Vigilante 8 Instruction Manual written exclusively for *Cheat Code Central* at http://www.cheatcc.com/ by Brian Kolodne BiterClown@aol.com **Default Controls** Up - Gas Down - Brake/reverse Left/right - Steer X - Gas Square - Brake/Handbrake turn Triangle - Rear View O - Select Target L1 - Select Previous Weapon L2 - Fire selected Weapon R1 - Select Next Weapon R2 - Fire Machine Gun **Main Menu** One player: Quest - Quest mode consists of a series of four levels for each character. To win each level, you must complete the mission objectives and destroy all enemy vehicles. After beating completing all four levels your characters fate will be revealed. It will also unlock secret characters and arenas. If you fail mission objectives you can redo the level. Arcade - You select your vehicle, arena, and opponents. Two Player: Versus - You get to battle it out with someone else. The match is over when one player is destroyed. You can restart the battle after it is over. Cooperative - Players team up to battle a group of enemies. The game is over when either player dies so watch out for each other. Options: Game Status - shows the status on all the unlocked characters and arenas. Press O to enter a password and X to accept it. Press X to view a character's movie if their quest has been completed. Difficulties - Unleaded = Easy Super Unleaded = Medium Premium Hi Octane = Hard Controllers - Configure your controller (This game supports Analog) **Gameplay Screen** - The box in the upper middle shows which weapon is equipped with how much ammo remains to the right. - The dots over the weapons box show how many weapons are equipped (3 max) - The radar has red and green dots. The red is enemies and the green is a selected enemy. - The box in the lower left corner is a selected enemies health. - The bar in t he upper right corner is your health. - When the target reticle (crosshairs) are white your weapon does not track an enemy. When it is green it will track the enemy. **Weapons** -Note- Check cheatcc.com for all the weapons' special moves. Interceptor Missiles - Uses a combination of optical and heat-seeking tracking systems. Tracking accuracy depends upon size of target, Pretty slow and crappy from my experience. Bulls Eye Rockets - No tracking ability. Pretty powerful and the special moves are good. Sky Hammer Mortor - Fires an explosive charge of semi-intelligent matter. Pretty good. Hard to hit someone unless they have slowed down or are stuck somewhere. The crater maker special is great! Bruiser Cannon - Tracking turret. Rotates very slow so don't make quick moves while trying to shoot. Cow puncher special is very strong. Roadkill mines - pretty weak but a pain the butt. Bear Hug special can come in handy but watch out, it can get you too. Green Crates - Contain a special weapon Brown Crates - Any weapon, standard or special **Powerups** Shield (green diamond) - force field for a limited time. Radar Jammer (yellow squiggle) - confuses enemy radar and homing dvices for a limited time. Weapon upgrade (blue X) - Doubles the damage factor of any standard weapon for a limited time. Repair Wrench - partial repair. **Tips for Combat** Driving: - Double tap the gas for faster accelaration. - Use hand brake for sharp turns at high speeds. - Use the afterburner special with the missiles to get more air on jumps. - If the engine stalls press Gas repeatedly until it starts. All in th timing. - Upside down? Press D-pad repeatedly to one side to get back over. Weapons: - If you are carrying three weapons and you pick up one more your active weapon will be discarded, prepare! - Weapons can overheat, don't fire too fast or it won't fire at all. Targeting: - By default your radar will attempt to target the enemy directly ahead of you. - You can override the selected target by pressing the cycle target button. Strategy: - Smaller cars are weaker, but harder to target. Keep moving. - Larger cars should consider ramming smaller cars. - If you hit your opponent with two or more weapons simultaneously you get a "whammy". This causes more damage. - If a vehicle wrecks it will stall before it blows up. Hit it with a special move or secret weapon to total it. **Story in Brief** It's the time of the oil shortage. Sid Burn has been hired by the Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR). OMAR wants Sid and his "Coyotes" to push the US economy over the edge. They do this by destroying oil wells and refineries. Some desperate civilians lead by Convoy, decide to take the law into their own hands. Thus the "Vigilantes" were born. The US government was feeling vulnerable and began to develop weapons based on alien technology at the base Site-4. Sid found out about the wepons and tried to ambush the base. The Vigilantes showed up and the weponary fell into both groups' hands. **Characters and Special Weapons** Vigilantes: Chassy Blue - Beauty Queen and Special Agent. Her secret weapon is Gridlock. It launches a grid of flares that cause engines to stall. Slick Clyde - Showoff playboy whos truck was confiscated by Convoy. He was forced into helping the Vigilantes and now wants to be the leader. Special is White Lightning. A large rod causes electricity to strike an opponent and can stall their vehicle. Sheila - Convoy's 16 year old niece. Special is the Tantrum Gun. Capable of knocking weapons of enemies' cars. John Torque - One time Vegas hustler is know Convoy's right hand man. Weapon is the Bass Quake. Causes earth to ripple so don't drive to fast when using this. Dave (locked) - Alien fanatic. Special causes UFOs to attack a vehicle. Convoy (locked) - Leader of the Vigilantes. His special is tires that roll and crash into something then explode. Coyotes: Loki - Former military test pilot at Site-4. Released after becoming mentally unstable. Special is Scatter Missles. The launch into air and drop cluster bombs over opponent. Houston 3 - OMAR's scientists bionic woman. Special is the (are you ready for this?) Super Fantastic Death Ray 3-Ax. Can knock weapons of enemies' cars. Boogie - Disco fever, and a real pain in the ass, especially that voice. Special is the Disco Inferno. A disco ball that shoots explosive flares. Beezwax - A beekeeper with mutated bees from nuclear tests. Special is the Gamma Swarm. His Mutant bees attack the enemy's car. Molo (locked) - A kid from NYC. Stole a school bus and headed west. Special is toxic fumes. Pretty bad special. Still, it can kill an enemy in seconds if you stop and let them pull up behind you, then let it rip! Sid Burn (locked) - Leader of the Coyotes, and an arsonist. Special is a cannon that shoots fireballs. If anyone finds any problems with this instruction manual, has any questions or has something to add email me at biterclown@aol.com. -=Cheat Code Central=- is one of the largest and most comprehensive video and computer game help sites in the world. 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