Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal consists of a series of arena battles against an increasing number of opponents in ever larger arenas. These battles culminate in a duel with the previous year's winner, Darkside, who drives a large armored car that fires several missiles at once. Players can choose one of 12 different vehicles to take into battle. Each vehicle has its own driver and a special movement. The controls consist of gas pedal, brake, "tight turn" (basically a handbrake) and turbo on the face buttons, while the main weapons and machine gun are selected and controlled with the shoulder buttons. The arenas are populated with weapon stations to replenish rocket supplies, repair stations to fix damage to your car, pedestrians and track marshals armed with either machine guns or rocket launchers.
Story
The game focuses heavily on multiplayer combat, including several online game modes with up to 4 players in split screen and 16 players online. Nuke mode, for example, is a new online game mode where you select a faction to play against an opposing faction. In this mode, each faction has a giant metal statue held in the air by a helicopter that the opposing team must try to destroy. To destroy these statues, the player must kidnap the leader of the opposing team and then sacrifice him to a rocket launcher, which in turn launches a nuclear missile. The person who sacrifices the leader and shoots the missile must control it so that it hits the opposing team's statue in mid-air. To win, the opposing team must repeat the process 3 times before the statue is destroyed. There are four factions: the Clowns, the Dolls, the Skulls and the Holy Men. The former were inspired by Sweet Tooth and Dollface, respectively. The latter are led by Mr. Grimm and the Preacher, respectively.