Vehicular combat coming to XBLA with Vigilante 8

The sleeper-hit car smash-up game that made it's appearances during the PS1-Dreamcast days, Vigilante 8 Arcade is actually coming back this generation, according to an announcement made by Activision today. With gameplay similar to the Twisted Metal games, Vigilante 8 was all about destroying the other cars while you did fun things in the level and got cool weapons with neat effects. As the game isn't the most deep or complicated, and can be played in short burst, it's a perfect fit for the Live Arcade. Not only is the gameplay and design perfect for XBLA, but you could never play with eight players before thanks to the limits of controller plugs, but with today's tech we get eight player online matches of car-destroying goodness. The game is intended to be released before spring is out, and has no rating yet (though we'll probably know when it does gets rated).