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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.