Twisted Metal: Black (PS2)

-(Game Information)- Name:Twisted Metal:Black Publisher:Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Developer:Incognito Genre:Car Combat Release:Dec 7, 2001 Age Rating:18+ for Vilolence, Blood and Gore Number Of Players:1-4 Online:No Developer Site:www.xmission.com/~ncognito/ Memory Card Usage:90kb minimum -(History)- Sony's American in-house game development studio has helped create games that appear on Sony products. Their most successful franchises include'SOCOM', 'Rachet and Clank' and 'God Of War'. Since the days of the Playstation, Twisted Metal has made two games on the console. Black was the first Twisted ...  Read the complete review

To European gamers, Twisted Metal Black is the third game in the series of Twisted Metal games. There has been a Twisted Metal 3 and 4 but they were so bad that they didn't make it over here. Anyway, TMB is a vehicular car combat game, which basically means choosing a car and character and pitting yourself against other cars and characters whilst using a varied assortment of weapons to blow the crap out of them. It's all a lot of fun. The thing that makes the Playstation 2 version different is the games' looks. It looks great and there is no slowdown whatsoever. Unfortunately this is the only thing that makes it different from its ...  Read the complete review

This game is the ultimate car combat game and the experience to be playing it is amazing. You just cannot simply put it down after playing it. At first, you will be able to pick 8 drivers to play as to complete in story mode, co-operative mode or deathmatch mode. During the story mode, you will be able to unlock new characters. These can be unlocked by finding them somewhere in an arena. When playing, you will face 6 to 8 opponents that you must kill to progress in the story mode in 8 different enviroment levels. Some massive and some a bit small. This is a great variety of sizes so if you want to play deathmatch with friends, you can pick one of ...  Read the complete review

Along with many others, I was disappointed to see 989 Studios take over the series with Twisted Metal 3 and 4. It simply lost the spirit and feel of the exciting prequels. No offense to 989 Studios, but they were better at making sports titles and should have stayed with that. After 989's mediocre efforts, the Twisted Metal name appeared to have a bad rap for years. But Sony had something up their sleeve. Incognito, one of Sony's leading developers, decided to take over the series and develop a Playstation 2 version. This is Sweet Tooth's first appearance on the Playstation 2, and hopefully it won't be his last, because Twisted Metal Black puts ...  Read the complete review