Twisted Metal (1995 video game)
| Twisted Metal | |
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Cover art
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| Developer(s) |
Sony Interactive Studios America (production) SingleTrac (development) |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Mike D. Jackson |
| Producer(s) | Scott Campbell |
| Designer(s) |
Dave Jaffe Mike Giam |
| Artist(s) | Lee Wilson (vehicle sketches) |
| Writer(s) | Daniel Phillips |
| Composer(s) |
Chuck E. Meyers Tom Hopkins Lance Lenhart |
| Series | Twisted Metal |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Microsoft Windows |
| Release |
PlayStation
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| Genre(s) | Vehicular combat |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 66.88% (PS) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |
  (PC) |
| CVG | 5/5 (PS) |
| EGM | 9.25/10 (PS) |
| GameFan | 91% (PS) |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 (PS) |
| Game Revolution | B+ (PS) |
| IGN | 7/10 (PS) |
| Maximum |
(PS) |
| Next Generation |
(PS) |
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game developed by SingleTrac, produced by Sony Interactive Studios America (now 989 Studios) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The game was released in North America on November 5, 1995, in Europe on January 13, 1996 and in Japan on November 15, 1996. The North American version was rereleased for the Sony Greatest Hits line-up on March 3, 1997. It is the first installment in the Twisted Metal series. The game's plot is centered on the titular competition in which various drivers in modified vehicles must destroy the other vehicles in an attempt to be the last one alive. The winner meets the organizer of the competition, a mysterious man named Calypso, who will grant the winner a single wish, regardless of price, size or even reality.
Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat game in which the player takes control of one of twelve unique vehicles. While in control of a vehicle, the player can accelerate, steer, brake, reverse, activate the turbo, turn tightly, toggle between and activate weapons using the game controller's d-pad and buttons. The game can be played in either the one-player mode (in which the game's story takes place) or the co-op mode (in which two human players can select a battleground on which to compete in). In the one-player mode, the player must progress through six combat arenas of progressively increasing size and featuring progressively more opponents. To clear a level, the player must destroy all of the enemy vehicles in that level. The game lasts until all of the player's lives have expired or until all six levels have been cleared.
The player begins the game with three lives, indicated by the stacked green boxes on the bottom right corner of the screen. The length of each of the player's lives is tied to their health bar (located to the left of the life boxes), which decreases whenever the player's vehicle is damaged by enemy attacks. The player can replenish a portion of their vehicle's health bar by driving through blue ramps called "Health Stations" scattered throughout the environments. The difficulty level the game is set on determines how much of the vehicle's health is replenished and how fast the stations recharge once the player has used them. Each time the health bar is fully depleted, the player loses a life. If the last life is lost, the game ends prematurely.
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