Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal is a vehicle combat video game developed by Eat Sleep Play and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is a reboot of the Twisted Metal franchise. The game was…
Twisted Metal is a racing developed by Eat Sleep Play Inc., released 14 February 2012 on PlayStation 3.
What Twisted Metal is
Twisted Metal is a racing game developed by Eat Sleep Play Inc. and released in 2012. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game focuses heavily on multiplayer combat, including various online game modes with up to 4 player split-screen and 16-players online. For example, the Nuke Mode is a new online game mode where you choose a faction to play against an opposing faction. In this mode, each faction has a giant metal statue that is being held in the air by a helicopter, which the opposing team must try to destroy. In order to destroy these statues, the player must abduct the enemy team's leader, then sacrifice the leader to a missile launcher that will, in turn, launch a nuclear missile. The person who sacrifices the leader and launches the missile has to control it to hit the opposing teams statue in the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, survival and thriller. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Twisted Metal series
Twisted Metal is the tenth of 16 entries we hold in the Twisted Metal series. It arrived 4 years after Twisted Metal: Head-On - Extra Twisted Edition. The next entry was PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in 2012. Its critic score of 81 is 12 points above the series average of 69. The highest-rated entry is Twisted Metal: Black at 90.
How it was received
Twisted Metal holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Twisted Metal launched on 14 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Twisted Metal yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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