263. Twisted Metal

It is 13th of October. And it is about the right time to write about Twisted Metal. Let’s go! For those of you who are into video games, especially old ones, Twisted Metal should be a well-known title. For those of you who are not, well, let’s say Twisted Metal is a series of games where you drive a weaponized car in the arenas and try to obliterate your opponents while not being obliterated yourself. Sort of car-based deathmatch with a basic premise and clear goal — be the only one left driving. I’m going to talk about the game back from PS One era, and this is basically the only game I played in the series I know there were a lot of games on the next iterations of the console, but I didn’t play them (and yes, I know that there’s even some TV series, but my wild bet it’s not good since very rarely series based on video games are good). Yet I played the first one. And replayed it, too. Today. But let’s start from the beginning. Twisted Metal screams 90s. The plot, the characters, the music, the overall madness. Everything is so 90s. Basically, the idea of the game is the following: there’s a tournament called Twisted Metal that happens on a yearly basis. The tournament is held by some shady dude with a burned-out face named Calypso. And this dude promises to fulfill a wish. This thing causes a whole bunch of daredevils to show up for a chance to make their dreams come true. And basically, this is the only plot you have there, everything else is just a high-octane action pumped by heavy metal tunes and a surrealistic atmosphere. Also, the game had planned videos for endings, instead, we got text-based wrap-ups that tell you what happened in a few sentences. Too bad, because videos were even more 90s than the game itself. The Sweet Tooth ending where a dude in a clown costume, who sits in a death machine with machine guns and rocket launchers, decides to get into a confrontation with the half-naked bodybuilders with AKs with the help of an SMG because he’s so deranged. While Calypso, who appears to be a heavy-metal version of Cenobites from Hellraiser, is surrounded by girls in bikinis. If that’s not the most 90s thing, I don’t know what is. <a href="https://medium.com/@tolyszew/263-twisted-metal-9a8347b86b07">Visit Now</a>