The Adrenaline Vault previews Interstate '82 looking ahead at the driving and shooting game that's going to cut its hair and get some shoulder pads, as it moves from the 70s inspired I'76 to the new wave 80s. Here's a bit from the hands-on preview that gives a feel for how the plot in this mad maxian series is going to unfold six years later:

The heart of the game is its action, but what a story! As with so many sequels, lead designer Zack Norman's script is as much a spirited facsimile of the original as a continuation. With an unapologetically oddball plot strung across more than 40 minutes of first class full motion video, and missions set up in game-engine cinematics, this title pushes the narrative standard. Groove Champion, the original’s protagonist and the spiritual core of the series, finds himself knee-deep in Creepers and a government conspiracy moments into the opening movie. Before momentarily disappearing from the plot's radar, he manages to send a distress call to his sister, Skye, a mowhawked biker hottie who adopts the auto-vigilante selfhood of her dead sister, Jade, and becomes the new Vixen. She enlists the reluctant help of Groove’s one-time partner, Taurus, an African-American, jerri-curled car warrior with a bitchin’ wardrobe who is haunted by visions of a dying Jade. His flashbacks give the proceedings an emotional resonance sorely missing in this genre, but there is little time for tears as Taurus, Skye and, yes, Skeeter rip through wave after wave of pernicious enemies that make the denizens of the Mad Max movies seem like Polyannas.