Twisted Metal (2012 video game)
| Twisted Metal | |
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Eat Sleep Play |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | David Jaffe |
| Producer(s) | Scott Campbell |
| Designer(s) | David Jaffe Scott Campbell |
| Artist(s) | David Jaffe, Scott Campbell |
| Series | Twisted Metal |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
| Release |
PlayStation 3 |
| Genre(s) | Vehicle combat |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Twisted Metal (Original Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | January 14, 2012 |
| Recorded | Various times |
| Genre | Alternative metal, hip hop, electronica |
| Length | 01:01:30 |
| Label | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC |
| Producer | Various |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 76.35% |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | B |
| Destructoid | 7/10 |
| EGM | 8.5/10 |
| G4 |   |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| GamesRadar | 8/10 |
| GameTrailers | 8.1/10 |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| Joystiq |  |
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 originally planned to be released in October 2011 but was delayed to early 2012.
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 air. In order to win the opposing team has to repeat the process 3 times before the statue is destroyed for a team to win. There are four factions: the Clowns, the Dolls, the Skulls, and the Holy Men. The former having been announced as being inspired by Sweet Tooth and Dollface. The latter are led by Mr. Grimm and the Preacher respectively.
The first arc features Sweet Tooth, a demented, clown-themed serial killer. Formerly Marcus Kane, a family man working out of an ice cream truck, he developed dissociative identity disorder and became possessed by his dark side, embodied in his clown mask. After slaughtering his own family, Sweet Tooth became obsessed with finding his daughter Sophie, "the one that got away", to finish the job he started years ago. The mid-story cinematic reveals that he came close to finding her in the psychiatric ward of a hospital (having slaughtered his way through the building to reach it), only to find she had checked out only moments before. Frustrated, Sweet Tooth decides to enter the Twisted Metal contest, intent on having Calypso send him to wherever his daughter is hiding. After destroying the Brothers Grimm (who drive oversized monster trucks), Sweet Tooth confronts Calypso in Calypso Industries, the latter's massive skyscraper headquarters. He demands that Calypso send him to his daughter, only to be transported to a long-buried coffin; Sophie had been dead for ten years, the trauma of Sweet Tooth's massacre driving her to suicide. Swearing revenge on Calypso's treachery (even though he himself specifically wished to be "taken to where Sophie was"), Sweet Tooth futilely pounds on the lid of Sophie's coffin; above ground, his alias has been spray-painted on Sophie's tombstone.
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