Twisted Metal: Head On
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| Developer(s) |
Incognito Entertainment (PSP) Eat Sleep Play (PS2) |
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| Publisher(s) | SCEA |
| Director(s) | David Jaffe |
| Producer(s) | Gene D. Martin |
| Designer(s) | David Jaffe Scott Campbell T. Don Henderson |
| Artist(s) | Gene D. Martin (lead) |
| Writer(s) | Tom Kling (stories) Gene D. Martin (stories) David Jaffe Scott Campbell |
| Composer(s) | Inon Zur |
| Series | Twisted Metal |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2 |
| Release |
PlayStation Portable PlayStation 2
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| Genre(s) | Vehicular combat |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PSP) 78.84% (PS2) 73.16% |
| Metacritic | (PSP) 79/100 (PS2) 73/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 6/10 |
| EGM | 6.67/10 |
| Eurogamer | (PS2) 6/10 (PSP) 5/10 |
| Game Informer | (PSP) 8.75/10 (PS2) 7.25/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | (PSP) B (PS2) D+ |
| GameSpot | (PSP) 8.5/10 (PS2) 7.5/10 |
| GameSpy | (PSP) (PS2)
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| GameTrailers | 7.5/10 |
| GameZone | (PSP) 9/10 (PS2) 8/10 |
| IGN | (PS2) 8.4/10 (PSP) 8/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| The A.V. Club | C+ |
| Detroit Free Press | |
Twisted Metal: Head-On is a vehicular combat video game developed by Incognito Entertainment and released by Sony on March 24, 2005 for the PlayStation Portable and February 5, 2008 for the PlayStation 2.Head-On shares not only the distinction of being the seventh game released in the Twisted Metal series, but also is the first game in the series to ship fully online-enabled.
Head-On is a direct sequel to Twisted Metal 2, ignoring the events of Twisted Metal III and Twisted Metal 4. Akin to other games in the series, Head-On revolves around the same theme of a man named Calypso holding a vehicular combat tournament called "Twisted Metal" with the promise of granting the winner whatever they ask for. In 2006, Twisted Metal: Head-On was one of the first games in the PSP Greatest Hits line in the U.S.
In 2007, it was announced by David Jaffe that Twisted Metal: Head-On was to be ported to PlayStation 2 and was released on February 5, 2008. The game was developed by Jaffe's newly formed studio Eat Sleep Play and was retitled Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition. It was never released outside of North America, and only in NTSC format.
It contains extra features and bonuses such as the live action end movies from Twisted Metal, (which at this point, had never been officially released) a behind the scenes documentary, and a concept art book. There is also a code to download a Twisted Metal soundtrack. The game contained an answer to a question Twisted Metal fans have been asking for a long time. After fans deciphered a message in the Dark Past documentary as reading "Twisted Metal is coming on psthree", Jaffe confirmed it himself. The PlayStation 2 port did not have online play.
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