Sid Burn - Breath of Fire

This is Coyote leader Sid Burn. A pyromaniac from birth, the Australian terrorist was hired by OMAR, the foreign oil consortium, to go to the United States of America to destabilize the country's already fragile economy.

Targeting the Midwest first, Sid began a campaign of terror, destroying any alternate energy manufacturers and the small towns around them. Along the way, Sid founded the criminal gang known as The Coyotes made up of disgruntled and deranged individuals who reveled in his mission of anarchy while his arms dealer girlfriend Nina Loco helped supply the gang with weapons.

When a rival gang of would be heroes called the Vigilantes sprang up to stop Sid and dogged his every move. The Coyote member Loki, a former test pilot that worked for the US Government's Site-4 tipped Sid off to the secret base's location.

Sid's raid on Site-4 was interrupted by the Vigilantes and both gangs ended up evenly matched with some of the most powerful weapons developed by man.

During the rolling war between the gangs Sid's group eventually fell one by one until only he was left. Barely surviving a final battle with Vigilante Leader Convoy, Sid escaped into the desert. After getting money from his contacts to make good his escape he was horrified to realize his car was out of gas after his contacts left and he was now 50 miles from the nearest gas station.

Stranded in the desert, a weakened Sid was easily captured by Vigilante member John Torque who used the fame of Sid's capture and briefcase full of unmarked bills to start his own bounty hunter business.

For Sid's 1970 Manta vehicle I used a customized 1970 Corvette Stingray. Since his car is the fastest one in the game I wanted to show him in a full throttle power-slide and burning out as he fired his Breath of Fire cannon at someone.

Sid Burn, Vigilant 8 and above mentioned characters and vehicles are copyright Activision.

If you don't know what Vigilante 8 is, read this:

In the 1970s the world was suffering from a world wide oil shortage. The USA was heavily dependant on affordable gasoline and was on the verge of an economic breakdown. Strikes, riots and crime were running rampant and all available law enforcement were brought into metropolitan areas which left the outlands unprotected.

The Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR), a foreign multinational oil consortium had it's sights set on monopolizing the worlds oil trade and it's biggest opponent was the USA which opposed OMAR's price fixing schemes.

Bent on forcing the USA to it's knees OMAR hired terrorist Sid Burn to go to the US and commit acts of mass destruction and chaos designed to send the country's economy over the edge. Sid immediately traveled the American Southwest and formed a gang called the Coyotes and began targeting American oil refineries, alternate energy sources and terrorized and robbed small towns and settlements along the way.

With nobody to turn to for help, a ragtag group of citizens victimized by the Coyotes led by the trucker known as Convoy banded together as The Vigilantes, who quickly became a major thorn in the Coyote's collective side.

Desperate to get an edge on his enemies and looking for a way to cause more destruction, Sid Burn heard the rumors of advanced weapons based on UFO technology housed at the mysterious government installation called Site-4 located somewhere near Papoose Lake, Nevada.

Ambushing Site-4 Sid's robbery went bad when the Vigilante's unexpectedly showed up and as a result the world's most advanced weaponry found it's way into the hands of both parties.

With their normal vehicles modified into rolling engines of destruction the Coyotes and Vigilantes now wage a war across the American Southwest with the fate of the USA hanging in the balance.