The arenas are full of places to have epic showdowns and have plentiful hidden places.Īs stated, Twisted Metal is a competition where you man a vehicle and aim to destroy every other competitor before they can destroy you. The catch with these mini-games is that in order to unlock content like new characters and deathmatch arenas, you need to beat them under a specific target time.
These mini-games house a multitude of varying challenge types like ramming into a bunch of taxis to destroy them, a platforming obstacle course where careful use of your vehicle's jumping ability is required, and a two-lap affair where you drive in oncoming traffic, needing to avoid passing cars in order to stay alive. In this globe-trotting competition, you and your competitors will be blasting one another from Greece to Roman Ruins, the ancient pyramids of Egypt to sky high Tokyo rooftops.Įach level aside from boss stages hide one secret teleporter that takes you to a bonus mini-game. Levels in Head-On are sprawling environments peppered with hidden areas, usually found by destroying a destructible wall.
Sprinkled throughout the traditional levels are three boss encounters that shake things up considerably. This pits your chosen character (each with their own vehicle stats like handling and armor) through eleven levels of destruction derby delight, aiming to destroy your opponents before your three lives run out. The main mode of Twisted Metal: Head-On is the story mode. The opening arena of Twisted Metal: Head-On, Big Blue Stadium. Calypso agrees, but the sister is brought back as a reanimated corpse, which horrifies the other sister. For instance, to spoil one of the dozen or so character endings, one character wishes for Calypso to bring back her sister. However, as all of the endings of each participant show, these wishes are granted in a monkey paw style way. A man named Calypso runs the competition, and he gives the winner of every year's Twisted Metal anything they wish for. See why with my review.ĭoing some research on the Twisted Metal franchise, I've learned that the main theme of each game has one of a wide cast of characters each with their own motivations for joining the Twisted Metal competition, a destruction derby of doom where opponents blast one another with high powered weaponry until there's one vehicle left remaining. Though the online servers are long gone, this first introduction to the Twisted Metal series for me has me already scouring eBay for other games with the Twisted Metal. However, when I had the chance to pick up the PSP installment of the series, Twisted Metal: Head-On, I jumped on it, as the game was incredibly inexpensive. There was something about the grim, dark, and edgy setting that just didn't appeal to me. Twisted Metal was a series I had rested on for a long time.
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