Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat game for PlayStation set in an alternate version of 1975. Players control various characters and customized vehicles as they fight against the gang known as the Coyotes, led by the Australian terrorist Sid Burn. The game focuses on strategy and combat to thwart the ambitions of OMAR, a company seeking to monopolize the oil industry.
Vigilante 8 is a vehicular-combat game set in an alternate 1975. Australian terrorist Sid Burn is hired by OMAR to dispose of all competing oil companies in the U.S. so that OMAR can establish an oil monopoly in the country. After hearing reports of destruction by Sid Burn's gang, the Coyotes, a man named Convoy, a kind-hearted trucker, forms a group of his own, the Vigilantes, to combat the Coyotes and stop the tyranny of OMAR.