David Jaffe created Twisted Metal for the first PlayStation console in 1995 and got rave reviews from the entire industry. The game was simple to grasp and amazingly fun to play with friends and soon turned into a franchise spanning 17 years. Although the series died in 2012, people who played it back then (myself included) have fond memories of the franchise. Now, the IP is going through a revival as a Peacock streaming series, but the old classics are also returning to PlayStation.
If you have a Sony gaming console at home, it's impossible to miss the multi-tiered PS Plus subscriptions that let you play games online, offer discounts on the digital store, and bring you free monthly games.
The cheapest version is PS Plus Essential and costs $10 a month or 60 bucks a year and offers two free games each month. Then, PS Plus Extra is $15 a month and $100 a year but gives you hundreds of games to play.
PS Plus Premium is $18 per month or $120 a year, and aside from all the previous perks, you also have access to Cloud Streaming. The last feature heavily depends on how fast and stable your Internet connection is.
PS Plus Premium subs get 18 free games this July 18, like the Extra tier, but they also get Twisted Metal 1 and 2 through streaming. Don't count on the gaming experience to match your nostalgia-vision goggles because the graphics are rough for 2023, not to mention the clunky controls and framerate. Even David Jaffe doesn't think they still play well.
However, if you're not expecting them to go toe to toe with 2023 AAA titles, the gameplay, ost, locations, sound effects, and vehicles might make your eyes watery through sheer melancholy.
Still on PS Plus, if you're a fan of Snowrunner, you can download it once it's available and get behind the wheel of over 40 powerful vehicles that like ice, snow, torrential waters, and mud more than the open road itself. You can even play it in four-player co-op.
There are also "Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R" and "Monster Jam Steel Titans" available to download, but aside from these driving experiences, you might want to give "Sniper Elite 5" and "It Takes Two" a shot if you never got the chance. The latter won the Game of the Year Award during Geoff Keighley's 2021 Game Awards show.
As far as the "TV series" goes, it will stream on Peacock starting July 27. Rumors of a Twisted Metal game revival have been running in the wild for some time now, but Sony hasn't said anything official on that front.
Destruction AllStars was a vehicular combat game on PlayStation, but unfortunately, people didn't take to it. This begs the question: Is there room in 2023 for an online Twisted Metal experience when Fortnite and Warzone dominate the landscape?
Codrin just loves American classics, from the 1940s and ‘50s, all the way to the muscle cars of the '60s and '70s. In his perfect world, we'll still see Hudsons and Road Runners roaming the streets for years to come (even in EV form, if that's what it takes to keep the aesthetic alive). Full profile
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