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Twisted Metal

Twisted Metal is the first among a long franchise of games from SingleTrac centered around combat and vehicles. Players must destroy the vehicles of their opponents with their own, either by dueling their friends or by going through Twisted Metal’s singleplayer story mode.

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Vehicular Combat
Released
November 5, 1995
ESRB
T For Teen due to Animated Violence
Developer(s)
Sony Interactive Studios America, SingleTrac
Publisher(s)
Sony Computer Entertainment
Engine
unreal engine
Multiplayer
Local Multiplayer
Franchise
Twisted Metal

They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the horrors of life… …sometimes the mind bends so much it snaps in two.

The best-selling car combat game on the PlayStation®2 is now available for PlayStation®4! In the ultimate contest of wreckage and devastation, Calypso has plucked a motley crew of contestants straight from the lunatic asylum. As the carnage unfolds, so does the horrifying tale behind each of these tortured souls. Slip into their twisted minds and come out screaming for more!

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