Twisted Metal: Extra Suped Mega Hyper Twisted Extremely Sweet Ultimate Twisted Edition!

The announcement of Eat, Sleep, Play's (ESP) first title, Twisted Metal Head-On Extra Twisted Edition, goes to show that the PS2 is nowhere near its dying days in gamers hearts. For newbies to the series, the Head-On port will kick you into high gear combat in no time. Beginners will find themselves choosing from the insane Sweetooth to Warthog and many others, all the cars play with their own style and have their own special abilities. Never, since TM: Black, have I ever had fun blowing up cars in a stadium or falling to my death on the rooftops. Vets to the series will enjoy both games, if you can call it that, on the disc.

(Sweetooth in Head-On)

Now when you open that nice wrap on the box, you will notice a mini art book on levels, car designs, and characters. Once reading through it, you will see a code to redeem a custom Twisted Metal Soundtrack from online. It's a great mix of all the TM games except for the despicable Twisted 3 and 4 (Seriously though, in TM3, all I can play as is Club Kid and spam his special to death! As for 4, Calypso..yeah..nobody played anyone else BUT him. Back to the review).

So I pop it in the system and we have an option, I shoot for the lost levels and stuff first since I have played HO already. The video on the history of TM is a great overview on the history on how they made it and documents their success and downfall and rebirth into the series, a very good look into the saga of Mr. Dave Jaffe and the TM crew. Next is the lost videos of the real Twisted Metal endings. It's definitely laughable content here, nice to see textless endings though..even if the content was a joke (it taste likes AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!)

The running level where you control Sweetooth is unfinished content therefore there is nothing negative to say, you just run around and collect 29 icons where you collect and read about TM, a little bit on game industry jobs and reject concept cars which are cool. You only have access to the asylum and the outside of the asylum. However, the lost levels, 4 in all, are very good levels especially the dark amusement park level. Two new cars are in the lineup, one a demolition derby car named 12 pack and Gold Tooth, which I haven't gotten yet. Both scrapped cars with no endings. Overall, this unfinished game hypes me up for more Twisted Metal sweetness.

The PSP port that ESP gave us is pretty much the same game except for some updated PS2 graphics and a nice looking castle map, Transylvania. Oh I forget to mention the music has been changed up from the PSP version. Would of been cool just to see 1 or 2 new cars but I'm still replaying the game to unlock all the things I already did.

But the greatest thing about the game is that it is only 20 bucks...yes 20 dollars, it's easily an affordable game which you should have in your possession after you read this or any other review regardless if you are a Twisted Metal fan or not its a great introduction for beginners and a blast to replay the game for vets of the series. 5 out of 5.