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Sold it after playing for two hours

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While this game was nice to look at, I did not care for the game play. I tried to like it, but could not bring myself to enjoy it.

It was so difficult that I made no progress. I couldn't even increase the number of cars I killed as I played through multiple games. The cars were difficult to control with the joystick part of the controller. I found myself getting shelled as I tried to get lined up for the recharge platform. The opponents only come after you, but don't really shoot at each other. While I don't have a problem with unrealistic physics in an unrealistic game, the disparity of expected car behavior from actual behavior was somewhat disorienting (and somewhat nauseating).

The plot of the game was very dark and rather disturbing. I guess what was really disturbing was the possibility of kids getting hold of this. When in the character intro, the clown character (pictured on the front of the package) says, "I'll kill that mother ...," I found it to be over the top.

The day after I bought TMB, I put it up for sale on e-bay. If you think you would like this game, I would rent it first. If you want to warp your kids more than TV has already done, this is a must have. If I were a parent, I would ban this game in my house.

nothing original

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 43
Date: May 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

if i learned anything from street fighter, just adding more doesn't help. They added more charcters, more moves, etc. nothing new since SF2Turbo, then it went all downhill. Twisted metal is in the same situation.

I own this Boring Game and the Physics model is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Finally a review from someone that really has the game.

In a word Twisted Metal Black is boring. The game is all shoot, no story. Well, a few short plotless movies are included, but they hardly qualify as story.

And if you're into shooting games, the shooting isn't much. Basically drive (or rather float) around and blow things up.

For a driving game the physics are horrible, all the vehicles drive like hovercars or boats, not cars. And the dumptrucks drive almost exactly the same as the motorcycles.

There's not much unique about this game, I've see all these weapons in other games, nothing new here. All the vehicles move unrealistically fast, I guess to make it more challenging. It's rated M for Mature, though I really couldn't tell you why. It's not gory or scary.

If you're looking for great PS2 games, this doesn't come close to SSX.

My recommendation for a good car game?

Save your money for Gran Turismo 3.

Don't give in to the hype....look elsewhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game [is bad], i've played all the other twisted metal games and this one [is bad]. the action is way to fast and its almost impossilbe to destroy the other cars. get twisted metal 1 its a classic and the best out of the series. dont waste your $$$ like i did.

Not want you would expect

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: June 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When you first start playing TMB, you will be saying to yourselve, "WOW", until you play it for 1 or 2 hours straight, and then realize that it wasn't want you expected. One reason why the twisted metal series was so great, was new innovation to the car combat genre. unfortunately no new innovation has added to this game, in fact you could stay it going downhill. The game lack so much stuff that make all the other series look like winner. What the game lack isn't in it graphic department, but it most important aspect of any game, the gameplay. It fast, infact it super fast, how can a 16 wheeler go as fast as a motorcycle, and realize how lame and such a poor excuse the developer of this game made it. The car physic is probably the worst i have ever seen. It never feel like your actually driving on the ground, every car has the same physic driving. Instead of driving like any other game, it drive more like on ice and hovercraft style. It lame, and also it very hard to hit your opponent. Also every game is a handicap game, not only do the al don't shoot each other but that all the al are all trying to destory you. It doesn't take long before a barrage of missle is aiming for your cars. This take so much away from the game, that for beginner will be totally outwhelmed. It also pretty hard on the easy setting because every game is a handicap games. Now talk about going downhill, there is no replay, extra, and no clear objective to any of the mission, but rather on objective and that is to destroy how many cars the game want you to destroy. Put in bad graphic and poor gameplay with an unexcusable 14 cars only, and you get a poor quality of a twisted metal game that the only thing going for it was the hype.

twisted metal online

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 40
Date: June 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DON'T BUY THIS! Twisted Metal Online will come shortly after, possibly this year! it just depends on the netwerk going up, if it goes up this year, then so does TMO

Worse Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just when I though I have seen the worst video game, someone else comes out with one that is even worse. That is the case with Twisted Metal Black. This game can be summed up in one word, laziness. The Playstation 2 is a powerful platform yet the developers of TWB were too lazy to use the full potential of the PS2. All the graphics are dark and consist of only 3 colors, black, gray, and yellow. If the game took place in daylight, the developers would have to deal with shadows, shading, and textures. Instead they took the lazy way out and made the game take place at night so that they didn't have to worry about shading, shadows, or textures. Go outside in the middle of the night and you will get the idea. You can't see shadows, colors, shading, or texture. The game is so dark (even with the brightness turned up all the way) that I got a headache and eye strain after playing it for only 15 minutes. It looks like the PS2 will flop because developers will be too lazy to program for it. I regret buy the PS2 and am going to buy the obsolete Dreamcast. At least there are games for Dreamcast with decent color and graphics.

Not that fun and too violent.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a fan of the Twisted Metal series, but this game is the worst. There is too much going on in each level and because of this and the fact that the cars are very difficult to control, it makes it very difficult to find your way around. The level of gross violence in this game also disturbs me. I would advise all parents to use extreme caution before buying this game for your children (but preferably don't buy it at all). For example, one of the car's special weapons is a live person who is chained up in the back of the car and is lauched onto enemy cars and then explodes. Many of the storylines of the characters are also very scary and violent.

good, but wheres inovation?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 35
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i normally would give this more then one star, but this game has no innovation. That is what destroyed the video game industry in the early 80's, and i don't want that to happen again. Hopefully a bad response to an unoriginal game will influence sony to innovate more. The game itself is ok, but i'm not sure if it's worth buying. If you don't have the earlier games, you might want to buy/rent it

Poor Physics and no Originality

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The driving physics of this game are horrible, motorcycles and dump trucks handle, accelerate and brake in almost exactly the same way. The laziness of the developers shows through with them using the same phyiscs model for every vehicle.

All the vehicles drive more like boats or hovercars than cars, drifting and coasting all over the place. If you touch the gas for a second you'll have enough inertia built up to drive a mile or two.

The game play is nothing new, basically just wander around looking for power-ups and shoot like mad. Quake with a hovercar.

Twisted Metal Black is very arcadish, not at all a good driving game and not at all compelling. I found it quite simple to beat and the computer opponents to be very predicitable.

Strongly not recommended.

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