Twisted Metal is not a game that should be played solo. If you are planning on getting it just to play through a fun single player campaign with no desire to play online or with friends, you will be sorely disappointed. If you do have a bunch of friends who want to play the game with you and you have an online connection, Twisted Metal is great. You can play the campaign the whole way through with a friend, you can engage in same console deathmatches with four people, and you can take the game online to destroy people around the world.
Since I didn?t want to jump straight into the online portion and get completely obliterated, I decided to?play through?the campaign first to see what the game had to offer. Well, as you start off the campaign you?play as Sweet Tooth, who enters Twisted Metal so he can find out the location of the one who got away. In a fully live action, fully green screen supported story, Sweet Tooth chases after?a woman he tried to kill many years ago but?loses track of her. So he enters Twisted Metal?so that?Calypso will tell him where she has been hiding all these years. You start the game in a small town, where mayhem ensues, all while listening to a really well done soundtrack featuring some great rock and metal songs.
The first thing I noticed about the?game is how weird the controls seemed. I skipped past the tutorial, expecting some in game?help, but there wasn?t any. So, I jumped into the game and quickly learned that?square is gas and you double tap it in order to boost. As for braking, that?s circle, then double tap for reverse. It takes a while to get used to, but before long you?ll have the controls mastered and be pulling off insane kills where you boost towards an enemy while?firing rockets, getting close enough to switch to the shotgun, power sliding around with X, then blasting them some more until they die. Honestly, after the initial awkwardness, I found the controls perfectly fit the game.
In terms of gameplay and overall fun factor,?this is where the game truly shines. That first mission is just a straight up death match, meaning that all you have to do is kill everyone else. Eat Sleep?Play did an amazing job?to make the game enjoyable and ?arcadey,? while not going completely over the top. You?ll blast away your enemies all while collecting power ups that deal extra damage, dodging incoming projectiles, and plowing through traffic and pedestrians in similar fashion to that seen in?Burnout Revenge.?If you do?happen to find yourself in trouble, boost over a mountain and then drive?through a health truck or into a garage to switch your vehicle.
Now, once you beat that first mission, you will progress even further into Sweet Tooth?s campaign and play great game types such as The Cage, a Twisted Metal twist on King of the Hill, and Juggernaut, where you have a giant truck that you have to blow up before it respawns more enemies. To?end Sweet Tooth?s section,?there is a really fun boss fight where you have to destroy two Monster Trucks, helmed by The Brothers Grimm. Upon defeating them, you are taken to the second character of the three character campaign, Mr. Grimm, and the campaign continues its good pace by including 2 Juggernauts, or having you race to detonate a bomb. Even the giant final boss of Mr. Grimm?s storyline was fun, but then we?get into Dollface?s campaign, which really takes the campaign from a high note, to a very low note.
It starts out just fine, you play through even tougher versions of previous missions, but once you reach the final two, it just becomes a frustrating mess. There is a?Checkpoint race that forces you to hit about 50 checkpoints before you can race to detonate a bomb. This would be just fine, but those checkpoints will be at the top of buildings and just the slightest mistake will send you plummeting to the ground, putting you so far behind that you have to restart. It actually took about 20 tries for me to beat it, just because I would get hit off a ledge just before I was about to make a jump, or it would be too difficult to see where the next checkpoint was.
After finally?beating the Checkpoint race, the?last mission takes you to?Sweet Tooth?s Carnival of Carnage. It is a multi-stage boss fight that has you blowing up a Sweet Tooth head, playing pinball and?racing up a treacherous?slope. Sadly, it ends with a very glitchy, frustrating helicopter segment. This portion has you fighting a Sweet Tooth machine with a hole in his head. Obviously, you have to drop a bomb into the hole but to do this you have to kill one of the Sweet Tooth Minions flying around. So, you spend 30 seconds shooting the minion down, then you?fly downwards?to the ground, activate the magnet (which takes perfect aim), fly back up to the Sweet Tooth head, all?while hoping the game doesn?t arbitrarily drop the bomb on you, and then finally release the bomb into his head. You?ll then need to repeat this about 4 or 5 times, running into many glitches. Ending with this type of boss fight was a real disappointment because the campaign started off so strong and even the story ended in predictable fashion.
Once you finish the campaign, you can head into the online portion of the game, but as of right now, it has some major issues. While the online play is definitely a lot of fun because you can play against unpredictable human opponents, actually getting into a game can be a huge challenge. You see, you can select Quick Online Action from the main menu but you?ll just usually wait a minute, then get a connection error notice. So, I decided I would select my online match from the giant list you can find by going to the online multiplayer section.
Well,?there will be?about 100 games listed and when you go to connect to one, it will give you yet another ?network connection error? notice. Realistically, I found myself trying to get into about 25 games before?one would finally let me join, yet that leads to more problems. Since there is always a host, you have to wait for them to start the game and?matches will not start automatically, so you have to wait for that same host to start the battle, but they are likely to wait until you have a full party, which rarely happens.
If you can find your way into an online match, you will find a mixed bag of online types. The generic Deathmatch, Last Man Standing, and team versions of those are present and fun. On the other hand, you have Hunted, which makes the person who scores the first kill, ?The Hunted? and you must kill him, thus becoming the new Hunted. It was fun at first, but the Hunted usually just runs away and if they have a fast car, you won?t catch up to them.
Lastly, there is Nuke. It is a fun, if imbalanced, game that has you capturing a human so you can send a missile at a teams statue. The imbalancing comes from the fact that the ?away? team has a stationary missile launcher that is easy to fire a missile with, but the ?home? team has a mobile launcher, that can be very tough to track down. Nearly every single game of Nuke that I played had the away team winning by quite a large margin, due to the launcher being in one place. Don?t get me wrong, Nuke was fun, it was just unfair at times.
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Despite having a less than stellar campaign and a very long wait time in between online matches, Twisted Metal is above all else, fun. If you?ve played and enjoyed a Twisted Metal game before, you need to own this game and as for everyone else, if you want to blow up some cars with your friends, you need look no further.
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Twisted Metal was reviewed with a copy provided by Sony. You can purchase Twisted Metal in stores now for $59.99 and?all first run copies of the game will get a PSN copy of Twisted Metal Black.
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