I cannot empirically prove to you that Twisted Metal 2 is a great game. I can say that I played it endlessly, beating it over and over, with my brother, and just by myself. Basically a PSONE battle royale with cars laden with machineguns, bombs, missiles, and other weapons, it's a fight to the finish in rudimentary versions of famous cities. There is a variety of cars to choose from, including the one pictured where it's just a guy chained to two wheels. Each car has its own stats and special weapon.
Me and my brother loved this game. And it allowed for split screen co-op. However, on the last level, after you defeat the last boss, the two players must finally face each other - for only one can be triumphant.
It's a fun game.
Incidentally, back in the nineties when I lived in San Francisco and got to interview for a job at Gamepro, I told the editor this was one of my favorite games. He asked me to write a review of it as a test, and email it to him later that week. I guess he didn't like it - I never got the job.
I love that guy-between-two-wheels thing. I think I played some Twisted Metal Black at some point.
Interesting you applied at Gamepro. I used to follow a few poeple on podcasts and whatnot who worked there in the 90s, Dan Amrich and Hugh Sterbakov. I also remember that magazine. I liked their issues where they listed all the games they'd reviewed. It was like they dumped their spread sheets into a magazine, but I liked that.
I never played Twisted Metal Black. It's too bad the series faded away, cars with guns are cool.
Ever play the board game Car Wars? Or, I guess it's a pen-and-paper game. I played it way back with a friend of mine. Load your cars up with weapons and battle it out. It was fun.
No, but I’ve heard of it.
It was Steve Jackson game. My roommate in college introduced it to me.
Ah yeah. He did a lot of games. I read some books for his space opera game but never actually played it
I still want to play Toon, the game where you basically do DnD but with cartoon characters.
Axl, right? (name of character)
Sorry GamePro didn't work out ... for anyone, really.
I was disappointed at the time, but not so much now. Video game writers are some jaded fucks.
I played a bit of Twisted Metal on the PS Classic and I think I played the sequel on a demo disc back in the day. Not really my cup of tea, but they were certainly popular games and representative of the PlayStation.
That's cool that you applied for a job at GamePro. Shame it never came through. Back when 1up.com was big, I applied for SO MANY jobs there. Never was successful, though.
Yeah I was disappointed, but I don't really think of it much.
