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Full on excitement!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is like having a console game in your pocket! The quality of the gameplay is unreal and frame rate very good. A nice addition to the Twisted Metal series, highly reccommended! You HAVE to use the headphones with this one.

The future of gaming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The PSP is the future of gaming and Twisted Metal is a must have for the system. It is fast paced and easy to play. It takes maybe 10 minutes to get the idea of the game and gameplay. This game is more of a compilation of the most popular aspects of prior TM games. The graphics are pristine and the concept is executed flawlessly. This game will keep you entertained for hours. I am a firm believer that Twisted Metal 2 was one of the best in the series, but this one blows it out of the water. I highly recommend this game to everyone.

Road rage in a good way!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing! The graphics here blow any Nintendo handheld system out of the water. This actually looks BETTER than the console versions of Twisted Metal. Don't let the small screen size fool you, you can really tell what's going on here. It's smooth frame rates all the way, with no skipping that I could see. The cars respond well, and the sound rocks (as long as you're using the headphones...the little built-in speaker stretches it a little thin). Great fun!

psp twisted metal head on

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is awesome better then any of the other twisted metal games before it trust me i own the one for the orginal playstation

Twisted Metal does it again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Thare r a bunch of Twisted Metal games, but probably not as g00d as this 1. Who doesnt like Needles Kane a.k.a Sweetooth. Also Mr.Grim and so much more charecters. My favorite has 2 be (I DONT NO HIS NAME) the yellow bulldozer. i love the special when he picks up the other car and smashes them up and down. This game is another Twisted Metal awesome game

PSP RULES!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played all the twisted metals and this is one of the best. All the original characters are here including Mr. Grimm, Sweet tooth and now you can even get Dark Tooth! (the much better, bigger sweet tooth). Good levels, but the game is a little short and to me the last level where you have to kill Tower Tooth is REALLY hard. But overall this is a great game and having it on psp makes it even better. If you get a PSP make this one of the games you get!

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Twisted Metal: Head On is a REALLY TOTAL AWESOME game to play

This is a MUST HAVE GAME TO BUY & play

I give it a 5 Stars "Highly Recommended" REALLY TOTAL WORTH IT TO BUY AND PLAY this on the PSP

Insane vehicle violence

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

*** This is an update to my previous review based on new info ***

This is a very fast, fun, madcap game where you drive a monster garage-type vehicle around attacking everything in your path. Although the basics are pretty obvious - drive around, pick up ammo and shoot stuff - the game is actually pretty intricate, and loads on the complexity with special key sequences, mini games and mystery objects than endow special powers to the holder. Although this gives the game a lot of depth and potential, it jacks up the learning curve for us mere mortals.

The single player mode apparently has a story to it, but I haven't found one yet and I'm on the 3rd level - but that does not matter too much, the game is fun anyway! The character descriptions in the manual read suspiciously like they've been translated from Japanese, not in terms of their quality but in terms of their weirdness! If the story really does unfold as I progress that will be good, but for now, this is a stateless death match type game for me.

On the negative side, I really get the feeling that I'm missing a lot of the potential of the game because I keep on dying too quickly. It's only by playing it again and again that you get to learn what all the various power-ups do and learn appropriate circuits to run on the maps. I'm a FPS death match veteran and I've never come across such complicated, multi-level ways to destroy other players. Note that I wrote "destroy" and not "kill": there's no blood or guts in this game as far as I know, just mechanical mayhem and twisted metal (yep, that's the title). However, the game is good enough to keep me coming back to it to try and learn this stuff - for now anyway. Update: If you get enough power-ups they carry over from level to level and it's possible to survive a lot easier. This makes for a hard start but at least I'm not dying so quickly!

Just like the rest of the game, the violence is completely over the top. Your whole car can get frozen like an ice cube, flamed with napalm, rammed, electrocuted, drop huge distances and yet recover if you grab a blue cross health pack. Everyone's health hovers over his or her car and there is a certain amount of satisfaction in pursuing the guy who's low on it and nailing him. Unfortunately, everything happens so fast for me, I'm never really sure what I'm nailing him with! It might have been a fire missile, or napalm, I'm never really sure. The only weapon that doesn't seem to do much damage is the machine gun that's standard on everyone's car. When you begin this game I recommend getting the heavily armored vehicles so you survive long enough to learn how to play.

Graphics-wise, the game ranks high, but not as high as say Ridge Racer. The menus and loading screens are a little low-res (and very green) but the actual game play is native resolution and looks great although a bit blocky - not realistic - but still great. Having said that, nothing in this game is really meant to be realistic anyway!

Twisted Metal has three types of multiplayer, online, LAN and peer-to-peer, of which I've only played the online one (can't find a fellow PSP player yet around here!). The online connection hooks up to a server on the Internet and there are 4 lobbies, North, South, East and West, which seem to relate to your geographic location, but you can choose any of them. You then pick a game from the ones running or start your own. I found this particularly hit and miss. Sometimes I'd connect and get to play, other times, the game would bomb out with an error saying my wireless connection wasn't working properly. As far as I can tell, there's no problem with my connection and the issue was something to do with the game itself. UPDATE: The "Message of the Day" on the server now says that they are upgrading the servers to improve performance. I got on last night without a problem and played some exceptionally fun games.

Anyway, if you do get a game going, it is very fun. There's a huge number of options for the game creator (wow, it's easy to forget this is all for a portable game system and not a PC) such as changing what type of weapons are allowed, setting games to be coop, last man standing, team-based, etc. In this respect, if you like online shooting games, you'll really like the opportunities this game provides. For me, the online play was THE reason I bought this game. I love multiplayer and wanted to use the WLAN on my PSP.

Although this game is fun, it doesn't get 5 stars from me for three reasons:

1. The online multiplayer kept on kicking be off for unknown reasons (others have found this problem too) UPDATE: This seems to be fixed now.
2. The graphics are good, but not amazing.
3. It's a little too complicated and has a steep learning curve.

However, it does get 4 stars because it is fun and I love the online multiplayer.

Fast-action derby violence

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The PSP version of Twisted Metal is a very enjoyable game. It's fast-actioned and sports really nice graphics and smooth framerates. There are a total of 14 characters to choose from, and there are a great variety of weapons and special attacks you pick up to wreak havoc on your opponents. Four difficulty levels are available: super easy, easy, medium, and hard, so this game will appeal to gamers of all skill levels. In the hard level, your opponents move at lightning speeds, making it impossible for all but the best players to destroy them.

As I mentioned, graphics is awesome on this game, and it never slows down. I love it.

Awsome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great game for people who love to compeat in destruction derbies. Also a great new add on for the Twisted Metal series.

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