Players would choose one of several characters, who drove different vehicles decked out with deadly weapons, to take down other combatants. The last game in the series came out in for the PlayStation 3. CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. Do you want to have style while destroying cars? Well, choose Spectre! It also has the ability to throw a missile that will follow its objective till it hits it and i guarantee, it will hurt.
Also, you already know what car is based of. It also didn't made sense as to how Marcus and Needles, who are the same person, could co-exist as separate people and fighting each other in the contest.
That said, if they are the same person, how is it that one of them could STILL survive after killing the other since they're the exact same person? Twisted Metal's alternate universes are also pretty damn confusing to get it right. While Black does takes place in Needles' mind, Marcus also made an appearance in that universe as Minion who as we've known, is always paranoid about Twisted Metal being just a nightmare. He says that he misses the colourful world. But in the colourful universe, Marcus is still as paranoid as ever, forever stating that everything isn't real while Calypso always tells him that Twisted Metal is as real as how he wanted it to be.
This could be suggested that the colourful universe takes place in Marcus' mind. That said, the Black and colourful continuities are both just dreams and that nothing is real. And then we have Small Brawl, which is a Lighter and Softer version for kids. You wouldn't expect this to be connected to the Black and colourful universes, right? Well, in Spectre's ending, it was revealed that the boy was the son of Ken Masters, the Spectre in Twisted Metal 2, which is set in the colourful universe Marcus always regards as a nightmare.
This makes Small Brawl a dream within a dream And then we have to fit in the Alternate Universe of the game. Mood Whiplash : In , the cutscenes are stylised and disturbing, with intense, yet mostly grounded scenes of Sweet Tooth and Dollface committing their various murders. Then comes the gameplay, which is full of explosions, giant robots, and ridiculously over the top battle grounds. Monster Clown : Needles Kane. What else do you expect from a serial killer whose head is on fire?
Sophie Kane in the reboot is an Evil Is Sexy version. Moral Dissonance : Even the good guys leave a trail of death and destruction that tends to be massively out of proportion to what they want to achieve.
In Black , for instance, Raven wants to avenge the death of her friend who was drowned by bullies and Agent Stone went mad with grief because he accidentally shot a family during a hostage crisis.
To make things right again, both drivers run over tens of pedestrians, blow up civilian cars that happen to be in their way or in the blast radius and destroy a large number of buildings. The number of innocent deaths would probably be well over a hundred. Raven returns in Twisted Metal: Lost , where she protects the city from the other rampaging killers This is sometimes brought up.
Jebediah is less than thrilled when he realizes they're fighting in a town he used to preach in, and several characters in Black apologize to Warhawk before the final battle Agent Stone in particular is crushed — "I know this man". It's just that they're usually out of options. Multi-Platform : The first two games were also released on PC though strangely, the PC port of the original was only released in Japan , after which all subsequent installments stayed Playstation-exclusive.
Not Drawn to Scale : Scale problems exist like nuts in this series. Axel, a man on a platform stuck between two wheels, is approximately 20 feet tall, judging by the civilian and house sprites on some levels. This even leaks into gameplay. In Twisted Metal 2 , Axel could run over and crush any other vehicle short of a boss, justified by being bigger than any of them, despite being just a man standing upright between two monster truck wheels.
Yes, he can crush Hammerhead, which is an actual monster truck. Black is actually somewhat realistically scaled: buildings do indeed tower above the vehicles, and although Axel is too big again, even the missiles are generally properly sized as opposed to the giant warheads in every other game. Not the Intended Use : Twisted Metal 4 has some of this: It is possible to use well placed Proximity mines to launch your enemies to the pitfalls or out of bounds, which is an instant kill.
Its original use, of course, is to deal explosive damage without any need of manual detonator as a keep-away tactic. However, by firing this weapon along with "turbo-ramming" after freezing the enemy either by freeze projectile or freeze remote bomb , the player can send their prey flying, which is useful for instant kill in The Oil Rig stage.
Similar to the previous method for The Oil Rig stage, after freezing the enemy near the edge of pitfall, Orbital can use "Teleorb" so the blue orb would suck them afloat regardless of the car size, and since the frozen car cannot use either Shield or Hyperspace , they would be in a helpless situation until the orb explode and their pitfall demise awaits.
Ominous Latin Chanting : Used in the Rooftops theme in the original, and the Suburbs theme and others in Black , complementing the Gothic Crapsack World setting in the latter. Only Sane Man : Quite possibly Agent Shepherd Crimson Fury in Head-On , who's pretty much the only guy who realized that Calypso is an asshole, doesn't even bother making a wish, and arrests him on spot.
Score one for justice! Marcus Kane, who most would pass off as a delusional madman after reading his bios, is usually proven to be this in his endings. His split personality , however Jebidiah in the reboot is seemingly the only one to see through Calypso's charade, subverted in that others seem to know or suspect that Calypso isn't what he's seems, but are derided as being insane conspiracy theorists.
Orifice Evacuation : Goggle Eyes' ending in 4 has him wishing to contain all the bugs in the world so he can kill them. He immediately chokes to death as every bug in the world bursts from his body. Pause Scumming : The second game implemented the pause feature in an odd way.
Your car and the enemy cars would stop dead as expected, but projectiles would continue as normal, the sole exception being the ricochet bomb. With timely use of the pause button you could land every single Roadkill boomerang, every single Sweet Tooth ice cream cone, every single freeze missile, break out of a Mr.
Slam infinite freeze missile loop, blow up opponents with their own mines because the delay before they arm didn't stop when the game was paused, of course and avoid running into projectiles fired in front of you. The list goes on. Conversely, you could also die during the pause screen.
Powerful, but Inaccurate : Power Missiles have much less homing ability than Homing or Fire missiles, but are correspondingly more powerful. Grimm's special attack lacks any homing ability whatsoever, but is one of the most powerful in the game. Warthog's special attack is an interesting variation: a cluster of missiles that increase in power the farther they travel before hitting the enemy, making them Powerful, but Inaccurate at long range and the inverse at close range. It was bleeped out though.
The reboot was the first time in the series where the F-bomb was used openly. For the rest of the game, F-bombs were dropped without censors. Pun : The endings of ''Twisted Metal 3' involve these. Pyramid Power : Obviously enough, in the Egypt stages. Grimm are in all games, though Grimm is a different character in Black and the PS3 game.
Grimm renamed Reaper in the reboot are the only vehicles seen in every game in the series; Axel and Outlaw are in all games except one; Thumper, Spectre, Hammerhead and Roadkill are in all except two.
Ring of Power : Twisted Metal 4 sets up the premise that Sweet Tooth managed to steal a magical ring from Calypso that gave him all his powers to grant wishes. Road Cone : While no two characters' endings could technically occur since, by the nature of the contest, you kill all the other drivers , several endings from Twisted Metal 2 are treated as happened in Head-On : Axel, Outlaw 2, Twister, Mr. Slamm and Grasshopper sorta. Though Axel's story is written in a way that suggest his previous ending happened as a result of having survived rather than because he won, and the others may be Hand Waved by the fact there are 2 years between the games, and the tournament has always been annual.
On the other hand, Outlaw's ending in the first Twisted Metal is pretty much the ending that happened, as its the only one brought up twice : it's the focus of Outlaw-2's story in Twisted Metal 2 and is referenced again in Head-On. Maybe Calypso got nicer and granted everyone's wishes after the tournament? Twisted Metal 3 had the same issue to a lesser extent, what's with Warthog's driver wishing to have the head to match his body, the two Outlaws being reunited and Axel claiming he separated from the machine though his hands does seem undamaged.
A big chunk of the Greece stage in Head-On happens aboard one as well. Shock and Awe : The Environment Env pickup, introduced since Twisted Metal 2 , is an special item found on certain stages, which activates a lightning attack in a limited range around whatever its generating it.
Certain cars most commonly Outlaw have this as their special weapon, too. Shout-Out : Kratos's blades and a boxart of War of the Monsters are part of the mementos in Calypso's office in the reboot. It may have something to do with the prequel to that movie having a Shout-Out of its own to Twisted Metal , with Lucas' crime boss being named Markus Kane. Signature Line : The page quote.
Sky Face : Occurs in one character's ending in 2. In Spectre's ending, he wishes for the whole world to see his face. Unfortunately for him, he leaves out the "how", which prompts Calypso to grant his wish by stretching his face across the entire sky.
Needles could also be considered a Superpowered Evil Side. This lead them to create two stand-alone vehicular combat games: Rogue Trip : Vacation and Critical Depth. Both games ended up leaving their mark on the series - Black adopted the visible damage indicator and slightly more involved storytelling of Critical Depth , and Rogue Trip 's faster pace and more interactive arenas.
Stock Scream : The death screams, notably in Black. Strictly Formula : All of the endings in Twisted Metal 3 follows the same formula: Car drives in, Calypso reiterates the wish of the winner and shoots lightning with his hands, the driver screams for no reason and then suffers the consequences of the wish, Calypso makes a terrible pun and thanks you for playing Twisted Metal.
Stuff Blowing Up : One of the main features of the series. The Kid with the Remote Control : The driver of Yellowjacket in Black is Charlie Kane, reanimated by his son and literally controlled by a remote control. Also, the vehicles in Small Brawl are RC cars driven by little kids. The Grim Reaper : Mr. A drop down menu will appear. Select the option to run ads for autoblog. The exact text will differ depending on the actual application you have running.
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