Twisted Metal: Black Online
First offered as a freebie in the United States with purchase of a PlayStation 2 Network Adapter for its initial release (and later included again for free as part of the Greatest Hits package for Twisted…
Twisted Metal: Black Online is a racing developed by Incognito Entertainment, released 27 September 2002 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.
What Twisted Metal: Black Online is
Twisted Metal: Black Online is a racing game developed by Incognito Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2. It runs on Kinetica.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Black is on a mission for another person to locate and murder Calypso. However the person who sent him has never before been seen and it is never revealed why exactly he is carrying out this mission. According to the original Twisted Metal created in the year 1995, in TM:B the entire storyline is darker, and is referred to as an "alternate universe," in comparison to the other Twisted Metal games. As stated, it is because it is all in Needles Kane's head. But there is even more to TM:B. Black, the driver of Manslaughter, made an appearance in TM(1995), Darkside's driver Mr. Ash's "lost" ending. In that ending he wants his demon "black" back, which makes one believe Mr. Ash is Satan. When he…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Twisted Metal series
Twisted Metal: Black Online is the seventh of 16 entries we hold in the Twisted Metal series. It arrived 10 months after Twisted Metal: Small Brawl. The next entry was Twisted Metal: Head-On in 2005. Its critic score of 40 is 29 points below the series average of 69. The highest-rated entry is Twisted Metal: Black at 90.
How it was received
Twisted Metal: Black Online holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 28 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Twisted Metal: Black Online launched on 27 September 2002, within three weeks of Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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