![]() Using these will drain a portion of the energy meter located in your HUD, above your active weapon, but that meter will refill over time. Advanced attacks include a freeze burst, jump, temporary invisibility, temporary shield, rear mines, rear attack, and even napalm. Twisted Metal 2 introduces advanced attacks and these can be performed by pressing a specific sequence of dpad buttons. Fire, homing, and power missiles return along with new weapons like napalm that will set vehicles on fire, remote bombs, ricochet bombs that bounce around the environments, and even lightning attacks. Turbo and other standard weapons can be obtained within the environments. Vehicles caught on fire can use turbo to put out the flames making turbo a much more useful tool than just being used to drive at super speed. Every vehicle is equipped with two machineguns with infinite ammo and a limited amount of turbo. Special weapons return and are unique to each vehicle and these attacks are more powerful than the other standard weapons and will recharge over time after being depleted. Once again each vehicle has its own stats that include handling, armor, special weapon, and speed so just like the first game, vehicles with little to no armor tend to move faster and the more armored vehicles won’t be as quick. By default, there’s twelve vehicles to choose from but this can be increased to fourteen if you unlock the other two, Sweet Tooth and Minion. Plenty of new vehicles are introduced including the series iconic Axel, a man trapped between two massive wheels. Many of the returning vehicles don’t actually include their drivers from the first game. Minion is my favorite vehicle of the bunch just for the fact he’s a demon with a badass tank and special weapon. Minion also returns as a mid-boss and also as a playable vehicle. Sweet Tooth also returns but the developers decided to make him a hidden driver unlocked only by using a cheat. Several vehicles return from the first game like Thumper, Roadkill, Mr. All of the stories are still kind of campy and crazy but it all adds to the charm of the game. Not every driver ends up living happily ever after and seeing how Calypso twists a driver’s words around can be comical. With full voice acting and cut scenes now, the stories are definitely more appealing and interesting this time around. Each driver has their own reason for participating and only after winning the contest will you see what the driver truly wants. Rather than using images of live actors and rolling text to advance what little story there is like the first game, cut scenes are presented in a comic book style with full voice acting. In contrast to his freaky appearance in the original Twisted Metal, Calypso now has sleek long hair, his face isn’t burnt to a crisp, although he still retains some facial burns, and he has a more charming personality. A mysterious man named Calypso runs a contest called Twisted Metal where drivers from all over come and battle to the death for a grand prize of anything they wish. The premise in Twisted Metal 2 is pretty much identical to that of the first game. Plus, it came in a huge box with that awesome artwork of Sweet Tooth’s head. ![]() I’d still rather play the PlayStation version but just knowing the fact I own a copy of the PC release puts a smile on my face. As a game collector, I searched high and low for a good three years before I finally obtained a copy, complete in box, and it’s now one of my prized possessions. It’s also the rarest game I own right now. ![]() The PC release was marketed so horribly that many people didn’t even know it existed and it’s extremely hard to find now. In 1997 a PC version was released and it’s just downright inferior to the PlayStation version. Nowadays, Twisted Metal 2 is considered a classic and it’s also where the Twisted Metal series really began to take shape. Developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Twisted Metal 2 was released for the Sony PlayStation in 1996 to critical acclaim and some even call it the greatest car combat game ever made. Taking the basic structure from the first game, Twisted Metal 2 introduces some brand new elements along with doing everything else a good sequel does, adding more content. It was this game that introduced me to the Twisted Metal series and a few years later I got Twisted Metal 2, the game that many would say is the best in the series. I could only play what I already owned. Super Mario World, Spyro, Sonic Adventure, and Crash Bandicoot Warped are just some of them but it wasn’t until I obtained a copy of Twisted Metal III that I could say I had a favorite action series. Playing games from my childhood is always fun. Many games I wanted back in the day I wasn’t able to obtain and that’s one reason why I would play specific games religiously as a kid.
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