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| Over-the-Top combat action.
Battle in '70s style muscle cars, trucks and more -
including a school bus that emits toxic fumes. |
| Tricked-Out vehicles and attacks.
Drive all 8 screamin' V-8s (plus 4 bonus cars)
linked to psycho personalities, special weapons and combo-attacks. |
| 8 Fully-Destructible arenas.
Search for hidden areas, weapons and two bonus
arenas as you level oil-fields, Casino City, and a ski resort to the ground! |
| Two-Player split-screen combat.
Go head-to-head via horizontal or vertical
split-screen. Try behind-the-wheel or behind-the-car views. |
Avalanche at the Ski Resort
Shoot down any three trees on
one side and an avalanche will occur. This works well when people are by
the trees.
Bonus Cars and Maps
There are 4 secret cars: The
School Bus, The Manta, The Semi-Truck, and the "UFO" Van.
You will most likely encounter
these vehicles while playing on the maps against the computer, and in Arcade
mode you can
pick to play against them. But
being able to use them is a different story.
You must first go to Options
and then to Game Status. If you haven't beat the game with anyone yet,
all the people's faces will
be black and white. This is
a Tekken-style "secret". See how there is a sort of chain with the characters
an then empty slots
and a bigger empty slot.
To get that first empty slot,
you must beat the game with the two characters that it is connected to.
Once you get the two
secret characters in the top
"chain" and beat it with them, you get the secret map. The bigger "slot"
in the top "chain".
Do the same thing with the bottom
"chain" and you will get the other secret map and the 2 other secret characters.
Something
special MAY happen once you
have UNLOCKED everything, but that isn't a guarantee.
Change the Soundtrack
If you'd like to listen to something
different, replace the Vigilante 8 CD with your favorite music CD after
you've started a
level.
Cheat Codes
Enter these codes on the password
screen:
Code
Effect
HARDEST OF ALL Extreme
Difficulty
I WILL NOT DIE Invincibility
REDUCE GRAVITY Reduced
gravity
SAME CHARACTER Play as
same character
in two-player mode
GO SIGHTSEEING No enemies
MONSTER WHEELS Monster
Truck Tires
DEADLY MISSILE Stronger
homing missiles
WMNNWLHTSCUCLH All characters,
levels
and the Alien
SEE ALL MOVIES View all
the movies
Machine Gun Trick
If you have an autofire joystick
you can increase the damage done with the machine gun. Set R2 to autofire
when the button is
pressed. This will enable a
steady stream of bullets without overheating the gun. Your enemies don't
have a chance!
Passwords
Here are codes for every person's
Quest Mode, passing it with "Objective Met":
VIGILANTES:
Chassey Blue:
AOGIKYFGQQTWGA (Mission 1)
YMBEJEOPDHYHZV (Mission 2)
RIPJNYEPGFPJAI (Mission 3)
HGFTDDNMUBXRLV (Mission 4)
Slick Clyde:
TNLCROHSQAZDMQ (Mission 1)
QDANNFHMSLBMWF (Mission 2)
FYLYRFKEAHGGAW (Mission 3)
OIRYEEBGDBNHBJ (Mission 4)
Shiela:
EDAOHLJIOUEDBA (Mission 1)
HSDNTZSGVOGCLP (Mission 2)
NTWZYUQSPXMHMB (Mission 3)
BXINCWNWGCQVJF (Mission 4)
John Torque:
WSLZFBNQDTFDBF (Mission 1)
BXNJRYSXTYACKE (Mission 2)
IBXGFDQBSNISJQ (Mission 3)
ZCTEAFJVMNDJUT (Mission 4)
Dave:
PYQXPDUMJNBOUP (Mission 1)
OULIUZTJHPKWTD (Mission 2)
QYDJBUYBZTEUQC (Mission 3)
Convoy:
AIHJZNIFPZNFWA (Mission 1)
UKXCXCOAIGOKVH (Mission 2)
KHREIWYIZREYHK (Mission 3)
VSNKJVURSUNRWX (Mission 4)
COYOTES:
Loki:
THLOHJWURONKLQ (Mission 1)
VIBWYIVGOPAUWX (Mission 2)
CEJMULWPCYYAVS (Mission 3)
PGGOVIUNUQEIVU (Mission 4)
Houston 3:
BDPTGXUBXOCCKE (Mission 1)
GCTPCXCCIWXVUJ (Mission 2)
NXJFNPZXRAAGMB (Mission 3)
DTQQSKTRYIHGEN (Mission 4)
Boogie:
FOJGCRHLWMUQZV (Mission 1)
DRFIQVOUYIHGEN (Mission 2)
WCHPZDGBCYEDBF (Mission 3)
JHAZRUUMTLUYBG (Mission 4)
Beezwax:
YUYFNKTAQGLNYW (Mission 1)
TXXKKGEWRONKLQ (Mission 2)
KHUSNNWJXORZHK (Mission 3)
UIBRJCCYSARVH (Mission 4)
Molo:
EDDNXIAPNTRDBA (Mission 1)
ITAHZJRMYTLSJQ (Mission 2)
NPRJUYRYRAAGMB (Mission 3)
AKFQPUISMWAHWA (Mission 4)
Sid Burn:
LPHPMMDNMPEMVB (Mission 1)
PEONQGUNUQEIVU (Mission 2)
XOKIXDXBKQRFOJ (Mission 3)
OYROHGBDNLSJSI (Mission 4)
Playing Tip
Choose to be the UFO on the
secret base level. Go into the top secret area(the place where all the
lasers shoot you.) Start at
one end of the big building
and drive straight through. If you shoot above the missle launcher a missile
comes out and shoots
your targeted opponent. You
can do this as many times as you want at either end.
Roadkill Mines
To activate this attack press
Left, Right, Down, MachineGun. This costs only two mines.
Note: This mine is invisible
until you or an opponent gets close enough. These mines hold you for about
10-15 seconds
before detonating. You can get
away only if you are driving at top speed in one of the three fastest cars.
Secret Cars
Go to the CONTROLLER SELECT
screen and quickly press UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT,
X,
X, SQUARE, SQUARE, CIRCLE, CIRCLE,
TRIANGLE, TRIANGLE.
Secrets
On the ski level go to the bottom
of the hill and enter the lodge doors, your car will get onto the lift
and it will take you to the
top of the mountain. This works
the other way as well.
In the Las Vegas level you can
find the blimp flying over, watch where it lands then enter the door that
opens. It will take off
and allow you to fly it over
the city, get over a building and wait until it drops you on the roof.
In the airplane graveyard you
can drive your car between the flight tower and electric polls. The flight
towers are located at
each corner of the level, they
are the towers with the flag on the roof. This will cause the B-52 bombers
to come out and
bomb your opponents.
In the farm level you can shoot
the valves beside the water canal, then a huge wave will go through the
canal damaging any
car trapped in the canal.
In the secret military level
you can shoot the ladders beside the stealth bombers, then go over to where
the satelitte dishes
are located and drive by the
red and green lights to make the bombers hit your opponet.
On the hover dam level you can
hit the switch in front og the dam by the water to make an electric burst
of energy go through
the water zapping your opponent.
In the Canyonland level, get in the middle of the circle of rocks. A gold beam will come down and teleport you elsewhere.
On the level Sand Factory at
one of the load things that a truck would pull in to load sand in the back
of it you can shoot at
one of the poles with the machine
gun only once. An elevator will lower and you can get on it. This is an
easy way to get on
the upper levels. Search around
for the loader!
On the snow resort level shoot 3 large trees to cause an avalanche! Boulders will start to roll down the slopes!
Special Attacks
Each weapon has two secret moves.
The manual tells you one and these are the other ones.
Interceptor Missiles: Halo Decoy
Up-Up-Down-Fire Machine Gun Cost: 2 Missiles
(This will cause any homing missles
or special to follow your missles instead of you. Useful but not easy to
pull off. This is
one of the only ways to cause
the Gamma Storm from Beezwax to miss!)
Bull's Eye Rockets: Stampede
Up-Down-Up-Fire Machine Gun Cost: 1-5 Rockets
(This shoots up to 5 of your
rockets in quick succesion. They don't aim automaticly so most will miss
unless your target is
stationary: I.E. stalled or
in a Bear Hug Mine.)
Sky Hammer Mortar: Turtle Turnover
Down-Down-Down-Fire Machine Gun Cost: 2 Shells
(Against a human opponent this
is the bomb *hehehe* that's funny.. kinda.. Anyway. This will cause the
opponents car to flip
over on it's roof. The computer
flips right back up. But some of the bigger cars take a while so it can
be usefull.)
Bruiser Cannon: Cow Puncher
Down-Up-Down-Fire Machine Gun Cost: 2 Shells
(Ah yeah. This not only does
a lot of damage in one hit it also throws the opponent for a loop. Well,
it just pushes them back
and sometimes will tip them
over. Great fun if your opponent is on the side of a cliff.)
Roadkill Mines: Cactus Patch
Left-Right-Up-Fire Machine Gun Cost 1-6 Mines
(This is the only way to drop
mines. The Bear Hug is great for slowing down someone. But since it does
no damage I use it
sparingly. This Will cause you
to drop up to 6 mines in a area behind your car. If someone is following
you they are
guaranteed to hit at least one
of them. And the best part is that unlike Twisted Metal 2, mines stay where
you put them. So be
careful. I've blown myself up
because I forgot that I lined a turn with them.)
Also, these special moves work
even if the weapon is not your selected weapon (think 3X wammys.) I've
done it only once
and my opponent was toast.
Special Attacks Tip
Having a problem entering special
attacks with the analog controller? There is an easy way to solve this
problem. Go to
options. Go to controller one
(or wichever controller you are using). Set the digital pad "up" button
to "Accelerate" and set
the "down" button to "brake".
Now you can steer with the analog and enter most of the special atacks
with the digital pad!
Turbos
To activate this code press
up-up-up-machine gun.Costs one homing missle. When you do this a homing
missile will latch
onto the side of your vehicle
and you will travel at the same speed as the missile.
Whirling Blades at Farm
When you go to the farm level
shoot at the big windmill tower thingies. When they fall the blades on
it will pop off and they
will start to chase either you
or the computer. Better run!
