Am I the ONLY one who has never heard of Twisted Metal before?

[Simalacrum]

Sony's press conference. I was watching it away, live on GameTrailers, when suddenly, some trailer with a bunch of flame-headed clowns comes along.

"huh, some kind of new franchise?" I think... then, suddenly, Sony rolls on a fucking Ice cream van, the crowd goes insane, and David Jaffe of all people comes along and says that its the longest running franchise of the Playstation brand.

"what the hell is this 'Twisted Metal'?" I think to myself "I mean, it looks pretty cool but I've never heard of it before!"

I look down at the comments; general reaction appears to be "FINALLY! TWISTED METAL YES!" and I'm still feeling utterly confused.

Here in the UK, at least, I never heard of the Twisted Metal franchise... during the PS2 era, I looked through game stores many times but I never once recall coming across anything called such a thing, or any game which looked to have such a distinct style.

Now, I like to think I watch the gaming industry like a hawk... big title games rarely miss my gaze (unless its a big event like E3), and so finding out that an entire big title franchise had missed me kinda gave me a little shock.

Has anyone else been in the same situation? I vaguely heard somewhere that Twisted Metal had less of an impact in Europe... could that have something to do with it?

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Neither had I, probably because I'm a PC guy, not a playstation guy. When I first say it I was like "Oh cool! A fucked up clown thing!" and then I was like "Oh. Car deathmatch. Neat?"

 

[yanipheonu]

I've heard of it, but never played it. So it really made the announcement underwhelming.

 

[manaman]

You are of course the only one. The rest of the world knew you didn't know but we all kept it a secret for shits and giggles.

No your are not the only one, only reason I know was becasue I had a Playstation and I remember seeing them, and playing with a friend once. Wasn't exactly my kind of game through.

 

[Cody211282]

I used to love the series, but I figured since they haven't come out with any since the PS2 was launched that it was a dead franchise.

 

[Berserker119]

Nope, haven't heard of it. Sounds decent, though.

 

[Swifteye]

You people must be younguns cause I have heard of the twisted metal. It is the grandfather of fighting car games. I wonder if it will show up on psone classics?

 

[starhaven]

i still have the first twisted metal for ps1 i dont know if it was out before that

it was fun
i think i might go play it again

 

[DazZ.]

It's been a while since a Twisted Metal game has been released, so if you weren't playing games around 10 years ago I can see why you wouldn't have heard of it.

I remember renting it out a lot, I was a poor kid back then and rented loads instead of buying everything.

 

[teqrevisited]

I used to play Twisted Metal all the time with a friend but he moved away and I didn't remember to get it myself. Plus I had no source of income and by the time it got around to birthday etc I'd forgotten.

 

[10zack986]

Nostalgiagasm!

 

[WaysideMaze]

I remember the game....yeeears ago. Was as mad and twitchy as UT, but with cars.

 

[Awake-]

I remember playing it on PS1 back in the days. Don't remember much, but I remember exploding cars. I'm getting the new one.

 

[ShockValue]

You're never the only one. Although I definitely know what Twisted Metal is, and am thoroughly excited for its release.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I only know about from people mentioning it on forums long after it was released. Not really a series that has ever been on my radar. I'm from the UK as well. I hope people don't take this the wrong way but it seems like a middle America only sort of franchise like Mortal Kombat only not as big a name.

 

[cornmancer]

Yes, yes you are. I played a few on the PS1, but I don't recall any being released for PS2, so I can't really blame you. It's the king of cartoony games where they give fast cars miniguns and rocket launchers and turn you loose.

 

[Jark212]

I would play that on my friends original PlayStation when I was a kid...

I feel kinda old...

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I loved it back in the day, but I never played any of the games after Black. I didn't even know that they announced another one till I read this.

Although to be fair to you, most of the games were on the PS1.

I used to love the series, but I figured since they haven't come out with any since the PS2 was launched that it was a dead franchise.

See, that's what I had thought.