Back of the Box Summary
You are what you drive. Big and tough, fast and deadly, or just plain crazy! 12 deadly machines in all! Stalk highways! Hunt suburbia! Take your pick. One just you all over!

Insane 3D combat! Outwit. Outrun. Outgun!

Review
If there was one series that can still say it is forever and ever a PlayStation legacy, it is the Twisted Metal set. Sweet Tooth, the devilish clown with the oddball ice cream truck, has been a staple for marketing packets and touting his own series. 13 years later though, and time has not been kind to our demented clown.

Twisted Metal is one of the original car combat games. Basically you pick your character, and then drive around open environments killing everyone else off. It's simple by design, but not simple in the execution.

The problem stems from an absolutely archaic control scheme. You have access to your gas and break on two different button assignments at all times. For example, by default Gas is both the Square Button AND Up on the Directional Pad. While desperately trying to out turn someone, you'll find yourself pressing the duplicate button when you're just trying to use an attack button. This is on top of the problem that this was a pre-Analog driving game, and trying to make any sort of quick movement requires an extra button press.

Which is sad, since the amusement of TM's world still shines through; absolutely ridiculous 'end-of-the-world' stereotypes, pretty nice levels for the time frame, and a still rocking soundtrack. For nostalgic trips only.
 
PSRM - 00530
SCUS - 94394
Barcode: 7 11719 43042 1
Publisher: Sony
Developed By: SingleTrac
Number of CDs: 1
Players: 1 or 2 Players
Meg Size: 283
Accessories: Passwords
Released:
November 10th, 1995
ESRB: Teen
 Animated Violence
Originally Released in:
 Long Box - Plastic Ridged
Variants:
 Long Box - Cardboard Flat
Jewel Case - Standard
Jewel Case - Greatest Hits
  • David Jaffe, who made his name famous with the God of War series on PS2, was an Assistant Producer on the Twisted Metal series.
  • The only game in the series to feature in-cockpit view.
  • Twisted Metal is one of only SIX games in the entire PSX "Long Box" library to possibly have all 5 variant packages. Currently the only missing case is the 'Saturn' style.