Oh my good God~

For quite a few years, I'd always mulled over the thought of a remake of Vigilante 8, an amazingly fun vehicular-combat game on the PS1 and N64, released back during those console's haydays~ I really loved it, and of course everyone who had an old favorite usually tosses up the idea of a modern remake, how sweet it'd be, but also how basically impossible any of them are.

Well love power seemed to serve me well since they made a virtual remake on the Xbox 360, Vigilante 8: Arcade, with (most of) the same characters, all the same weapons and power-ups, levels themed around all the old ones (except redesigned), and plans for DLC of stages, characters, and the likes -- all in delicious Xboxey-HD, for a mere 800 Microsoft Points (Which, considering Castle Crashers was 1200, is a steal) l3~~

http://www.v8arcade.com/

It's all the same chaotic explosive metal-crunching nonsense from the original, basically repacked with little that ruins the same enjoyable game I've always loved~ It can be played up to four-players local (something a disturbing amount of new games these days seem to lack), and 8 players online (and it works pretty fluidly, too. l3).

I dunno, if you're bored and want a pretty fun game to play, I'd recommend it.
Vigilante 8 has always been one of my favorite games, and I'd recommend it even if this remake never existed -- Arcade isn't full of a lot of story or cut scenes or time-consummation, just good old car-combat goodness (and just a whole lot prettier). l3