Vigilante 8 Arcade officially announced, with pictures!

Finally, Vigilante 8 Arcade has been officially announced by Activision and Isopod Labs!

V8: Arcade is a brand new re-imagining of the original themes and gameplay, engineered from the ground up for today’s hardware by the original founders of Luxoflux and V8 developers. Could things get any better?Absolutely, because quite soon, the magic of V8 car-combat will be available to millions of Xbox Live Arcade users via digital download, presented in cutting edge audio-visual splendor, and… at quite an affordable price, too!

Features:

• Five newly designed, highly interactive arenas, using Bezier patch technology for maximum surface smoothness!


• Eight gorgeous, highly varied ‘70s vehicles, rendered using advanced metallic shaders at 10,000+ polygons each


• Classic V8 character personas and unique special weapons


• Six standard weapon pick-ups with three advanced attacks each, featuring both ‘classic’ (combo) and ‘casual’ (charge-up) input methods


• Multiple collectible power-ups and ‘salvage points’


• User-customizable car paint color


• Advanced car physics for hyper-semi-realism and ultra high replay value — easy to pick up, difficult to master!


• Spectacular pyrotechnic, destruction effects, and physics-driven interactive hazards


• Single player modes against advanced bot AI


• Local split-screen modes up to four players


• Online multiplayer with up to eight human players


• Voice and (hopefully) camera support


• Leaderboards, achievements, unlockable secrets, and more!


• Free and premium extra downloadable content planned...

So it's not just a port of the first two games, it's a completely new one! From the pictures it looks like some of the original levels are coming back in some form (I loved the Snow Level). A few less levels than usual, but with planned DLC (hopefully more free than premium, at at a reasonable price) we should see some great additional and some classic levels. I hope Super Dreamland 64 makes it in!

The Vigilante 8 Arcade website has a lot of background information on the original Vigilante 8 games. Isopod Labs is made up by a lot of guys from Luxoflux, who made the original games. It's some some great little quips like why the game was called Vigilante 8 in the first place.

Go to the website below. I can't wait for this game to show up. You can view all the pictures here.

Source: Vigilante 8 Arcade Official Website