I remember this coming out on the Playstation back in the late 90’s, if I can recall it was pretty good at the time but also there seemed to be quite a few other ‘death race’ style games around then and this one didn’t exactly stand out from the crowd. Initially I was excited to play this but I realized that 10 years on the gameplay hadn’t aged that well, for most of the battles I was either driving straight into enemies and blazing away with my weapons or I was reversing back from them whilst trying to keep them at bay with my rockets.

For single player there is a quest mode where you can choose from eight vehicles and then play through three different arenas and for each arena the number of enemy vehicles increases. Downed enemies drop salvage which can be collected to increase your damage points and weapon combos.

Single player mode gets pretty dull once the nostalgia has worn off but luckily the multi player mode is pretty solid. For online play you can have a total of eight buddies playing and there are five arenas, there’s also a split screen mode. It’s also worth mentioning that you can have 4-way split screen which is pretty rare these days. From the little amount of time I spent playing this online I didn’t incur any lag and found it quite enjoyable but I am not sure how long the online community will stick with V8.

Overall Activision have done justice with V8 and if the online community sticks with it then it should be in the top ten for a while.