what got you started on twisted metal?

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#1 leon2365
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i was just wondering how people came to play twisted metal.

i rememeber that when i was a little kid, one of my uncles gave me a lot of demo discs for the PS1. one of them had the demo for twisted metal 4. ever since then, it has been one of my favorite games. i rememebr me and my dad playing the demo together. the demo level was neon cty, and we would take turns to see if we could beat moon buggy. it took us SO many tries to beat him, but once we did, we were so happy.

after that, i decided to look for the full game. i searched everywhere, and all i could find was twisted metal 1. i still played it and i loved it. then for my birthday, i got a wonderful surprise. my dad had got me twisted metal 2, 3, and 4! i was so happy that day, and i immediately started playing twisted metal 2, then i went to 3, then finally 4.

after playing for so long, i got MUCH better than when i was in my demo days.

ever since then, i have been getting the other twisted metal games when they came out. i have all of them except head on.

so how did you guys come to play twisted metal?

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#2 MuddyMaestro
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The first Twisted Metal game I played was Twisted Metal 2. At the time my Dad had had bought it more for himself, and since I was young and rather new to gaming (original PlayStation was my first console), I found the game much too difficult, so I rarely ever played it unless I used cheats for God mode and/or homing napalms. We also had a subscription to a magazine that came with demo disks, and I remember the demo for Twisted Metal 4 as well; playing Orbital in Neon City. That led us to purchase the fourth instalment in the series which I sunk much more time into. I found it was a game that was much easier to play, and I enjoyed much more as a kid. It wasn't really until a few years later that I went back to Twisted Metal 2, and really started gaining an appreciation for it like I have today.
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#3 leon2365
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yup. playstation magazine. gotta love em
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#4 icecoldmarty
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That's an interesting question well I had to play a lot of multiplayer with my brother and cousin Carlos on Twisted Metal 1. In later years I look at the stories including every endings especially those cut out of the original later release with Twisted Metal: Head-On on PS2. Another good reason is I always found a couple of characters interesting with Sweet Tooth being my favorite. They do change him a lot through out the series. I strongely believe he stands out the most in Twisted Metal: Black which I do look at it as a game but also a movie.
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#5 leon2365
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TM:B had some very nice cinematics.
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#6 icecoldmarty
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It could be a horror movie if someone can pull it off. I think that should be an Twisted Metal movie. We all know barely any of them made in Hollywood suck. Well there are some good ones with Mortal Kombat being my favorite.
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#7 leon2365
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it does have some good potential for a movie. i dont think there will be a director good enough though. it would have to be someone who playe TM and is a fan.
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#8 icecoldmarty
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I heard Death Race is the closest thing to be a Twisted Metal movie.
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#9 leon2365
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nah. its closer to being a movie of full auto.

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#10 big_fred123
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i started why back when i was 7 or 8yo and i played either TM2 or TM3 cant remember but i fell in love with the beuty that is twisted metal and could not believe what i was playing but all i knew is that i had to have more and more so i own every TM game except Head-On and i herd i am not missing much from head on
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#11 leon2365
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lol. looks like your in the same boat as me. got em all except for head-on
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#12 MuddyMaestro
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I'm still missing the original Twisted Metal and Small Brawl. I suppose you could also count Twisted Metal 2 on PC and Twisted Metal: Black: Online, but that's a bit nit-picky since there's not really any reason to play either current day. To compensate, I have Head-On on both PSP and PS2.

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#13 leon2365
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lucky. i cant find head on anywhere now. but im still looking.
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#14 MuddyMaestro
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Head-On was a game that eluded me for quite a while. I had purchased the Extra Twisted Edition on release date for PS2 before the regular PSP version, since I didn't have a PSP at the time. When I got my PSP a couple of years ago, it wasn't until about a year later that I found a copy under $20, since I refused to pay that amount for one of the PSP's launch games five years later. I haven't even gotten around to playing through Head-On on PSP, but I've never been in much of a rush since the PS2 version is much more complete, and had the lost levels of Twisted Metal: Habour City which totally justified them re-releasing it.

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#15 leon2365
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wasn't harbor supposed to be in black?
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#16 MuddyMaestro
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Harbor City was supposed to be the sequel to Black, and was going to feature an open world, on-foot sequences, and a whole bunch of other really neat stuff, but because of the tragic death of many game's key staff the game was cancelled, and all that was released was four environments, a couple unique characters, and an on-foot sequence with factoids scattered about, which could only be played in the Extra Twisted Version of Head-On.

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To be honest, Twisted Metal was the first game series I have ever played. I think I started when I was around 3-4, my favorite cars were Sweet Tooth and Crimson Fury. Later on in life, I was given the fourth game in the series at an unknown age. I really think that Twisted Metal 4 is a horribly underrated game.

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#18 VidGamAnonymous
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Wuz over at my friends house. He started playing it, and then i started playing it and kickin his ass. And i was hooked
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#19 MuddyMaestro
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In a few months, many new people will be introduced to the series, and will become addicted to the fast paced action and destruction only Twisted Metal can bring. It such a marvelous thought, it almost brings me to tears! :D

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#20 leon2365
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i miss the good old days of playing TM. i might get back into it.

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#21 MuddyMaestro
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I've made a few playthroughs of Twisted Metal 2 in the last month on hard difficulty. Yeah, I've had to start over with two lives a few times, especially on Holland, big it truly and honestly never gets old. I get so tense during battles that when it's over, I just burst out laughing. It's truly an incredible game.
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#22 leon2365
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i recently started playing TM:B on the hardest difficulty. im halfway done with beating it with all the characters.
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I'm hoping to play through all of the Twisted Metal games within the next month in preparation for the new release. I'd also love to play through the tournament mode with all of the characters in Twisted Metal 2, but we'll just see if I have time to do it.

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#24 leon2365
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the last one i have to do is head on. i was going through my games, and i found that i actually have it. i had NO idea i had it. so now i have to do that.
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#25 MuddyMaestro
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I sometimes surprise myself with the games I didn't even remember purchasing that are somehow in my collection. xD I guess that's a sign that I should really stop playing games online and tackle some of the older games I've been neglecting.

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#26 leon2365
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that would take too long for me. i have nearly 1000 games, and about 900 of those are still sealed.