There were plenty of big-name game franchises in the nineties, and one of them was SingleTrac’s Twisted Metal. Essentially, it was like a deathmatch in cars – driving around spacious environments and blowing up baddies with bombs was so much fun. Naturally, it had some dark undertones, as to be expected from a game all about committing genocide in trucks, sports cars, and even a demonic ice cream van. While the first two entries were best-sellers and scored rave reviews – even more so with the sequel – 989 Studios created the third and fourth entries from scratch, only these were released exclusively in the United States. Too bad that the third one was a sloppy, unpolished mess that many felt was not a true Twisted Metal title. The question remains: can the same be said about the 1999 entry Twisted Metal 4?

While the plot has been tweaked in areas, the general gist of the Twisted Metal tournament remains intact: a squad of crazy racers want to battle one another to the death in hopes of getting a single wish from its new leader, the killer clown Sweet Tooth. Compared to the third game, the cutscenes are, shockingly enough, watchable! Sure, they may seem a bit too ‘cartoony’ compared to the gritty atmosphere of the comic-style movies seen in the second game, but at least it comes with some good voice acting alongside.

Nov 16, 2015  Twisted Metal 4 - All Character Endings! Just showing all the character endings in the Sony PlayStation game, Twisted Metal 4. Here is a list of endings below. Twisted Metal 4 Intro Orbital. Twisted Metal 2 is the second game in the franchise, which adds more playable characters and weapons to the series as the various cars attempt to battle their way to the evil Calypso for their desired prize.

No, you can’t literally nuke an oil rig.

The core gameplay is basically the same as before: just kill the other drivers to win the level. Weapons can be found across each level, including some new toys, like a freeze-bomb, and numerous different types of ballistic missiles. While your vehicle’s standard machineguns can chip away at opponents’ health bars, each driver has a nifty special move to deal extra-damage with. It’s carnage, devastation, and all-out fun. Visually, the game has not changed much, and the same can be said about the physics engine (which will have you inexplicably flipping or bouncing around at times – only, not as much as in the previous game).

Twisted Metal 4 has some quality maps full of secret passages, devious traps, and intricate layouts. You can take a ride on a monorail in a futuristic city, drop enemies to their doom with the crane in the construction yard, or ride the roller coaster tracks in the carnival. Each stage has a boss enemy that appears at the end of each match in tournament mode. Annoyingly, Sweet Tooth is a very unfair final boss as he spams you relentlessly with a plethora of rockets and MIRVs, chewing away at your health within seconds. In any case, secret levels can also be unlocked. Some of them are really simple and pretty uninspiring, but have some cool gimmicks to spice up any deathmatch, like breakable floors and.bounce pads. These make up for the lack of extra game modes… almost.

Long-time fans will likely scoff, and with good reason, at the cast of characters. An intergalactic bounty-hunting robot and a Drag Queen feel too out-of-place to be in a Twisted Metal game. Weirdly, Heavy Metal icon Rob Zombie is a playable character, too (this can only be a plus-point). Calypso, the main villain of the series, can be chosen for the first time, at the cost of significantly-less screen time.

There are plenty of cars to choose from, which vary in speed, armour, steering and the strength of their unique special weapon. These include a wind-up toy car, a hovercraft and a nuke truck. Most of them are pretty fun to play, while others feel really under-powered; there are quite a few rubbish small cars with such poor armour that you could probably blow it up by tossing a few handfuls of stale popcorn at it. Regardless, there are even unlockable boss vehicles, and a nifty create-a-car mode with plenty of different appearances to choose from. You can even save up to a whopping thirty-six creations all at once.

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Do you love aggressive, upbeat songs to blow up people to? You’ll be in for a treat. Music by Rob Zombie, One Minute Silence, Ghoulspoon, and many other bands can be heard across each level. Nothing beats the grinding guitars of “Grease Paint and Monkey Brains” by White Zombie, or the breakbeat-delight that is Cirrus’ “Time is Running Out”.

Overall, Twisted Metal 4 pummels the third game into the dirt with ease, and even gives Twisted Metal 2 a run for its money… mostly. Sure, the reworked story, goofy characters, dated visuals and floppy physics engine will turn away any hardcore-fans of the series. Nevertheless, it has a sizeable selection of levels with mostly-great designs, a big bunch of vehicles, a large armoury, some sweet tunes, and quality gameplay to top off the package. Making it a US-exclusive title was a big mistake on 989 Studios’ part, because Twisted Metal 4 was a killer and a thriller.

Secret LocationsRoad RageThere are two secrets here as well. The first can be found at the point where there is an accelerator-arrow-thing that shoots you down an decline. You should land near a building with a concrete fencing, and a glass window.

Turn right after the decline to find an incline. Turn just after you get to level ground and shoot at the glass. If you turbo (depending on your chosen vehicle) you should be able to jump through.

Or just shoot through the concrete. The second secret took me a while to figure out. After the tunnel (If you follow the accelerator thing) you will find a towering wall just to the right of it.

Shoot it down with whatever you can and enter to find lots of pickup goodies. There is lightning and a back entrance. Secret LocationsAmazonia 3000 B.C.The secret that one of you happened to discover in the maze with snow-covered ground is actually quite difficult to figure out.

Tremulous antonym. Find the pyramid-ish figure with the health pickup hovering over it and turn towards the ramp. Instead of going on the ramp, turn to the right to fall down to the maze.

Down there, follow the wall from the panel that shoots you back up from it to the left. Shoot a power missile, fire missile, or even homing missile (If there are no enemies near you) at the wall not too far off from the left of the panel. Sooner or later, you will discover a decline leading to a room with a green-covered ground and a portal. That green-covered ground (If hit with anything that produces fire like a napalm or rain attack) will send a ring of fire across the surface, but will not continue past the green. So take the portal to a ring just above the green surface.

You will find lots of pickups and a full health pickup if you turbo off the side and jump (up, up, left). The other secret is something that was suggested by another submitter.

The ramp I told you to turn right of, you must take to reach the next secret. Follow the course of ramps (It doesn't matter which order) until you get to a portal. The portal will take you on top of the pillar-like structure in the center of Amazonia 300 B.C.There is lightning and other pickups to grab.

Secret LocationsNeon CityThe secret balcony all of you have been trying to figure out I know of how to get to. Take the road with the train-car to the 2nd floor, and if you can, destroy the train so it does not inflict damage on you. Once at the second floor, turn towards the portal and take the road left of it to a ramp. Depending on your vehicle, you may have to turbo, or even jump (up, up, left) over the the glass window. You'll break through it to find a health pickup and a weapon. There will be a cracked wall at the back-left of the room to destroy.

Once you have, drive onto the balcony (it is not the secret one) and wait for the airplane thing to pick you up. Be careful though, because the CPUs will come after you. When the airplane thing picks you up, it will take you to the said secret balcony.

There's a window to crash through, a power missile pickup, rain pickup, lightning, and a homing missile. There is a platform to you're right that shoots you back to the second floor, and along the way, you'll pick up a full health pickup.

This balcony is a great place to get revenge on the CPUs, but if you are in tournament and are facing Moon Buggy, he'll use his special to throw you off. Secret LocationsThe BedroomHere there are about 3 secrets.

And one that I like and I bet you will too. The first that I have in mind is that there are about 2 or 3 cereal boxes/gasoline cans (I can't tell which they are) that you can blow up to discover tunnels. One of them leads under the bed, the others lead into the closet where you blow up a radio player to get under the bed too. Another secret is behind the huge trunk/toy box. There are a few pickups and a health pickup to find.

The last one (besides the one I like) has to do with the lamp on the side table. Shoot at it with anything that happens to pivot up like a autolob or mortar bomb.

Underneath it is a lightning pickup. Now for my favorite secret: If you got onto the sidetable from the dresser with the TV on it, turn to your right to see a poster with a half-naked woman in front of a heart. Of course with the low PS1 graphics, you can't see much of anything.

Secret LocationsThe JunkyardOkay, for Junkyard, there are 2 secrets that I know of. At one of the 4 different areas, 2 of them have tunnels to get into. One can be reached by going to the area with the buildings. Enter the area and go to the far left with 2 different ramps & take the right one. Turbo the ramp and go across the first bridge-like structure and turbo the next ramp. You should see a portal to go through which will lead you to a moving road (can't remember what they're called.) Go on it to discover a full health pickup. Once off the moving road, turn left to find a square-like structure sticking out.

Shoot it with whatever to blow it up. Go inside to find a little hideout with lots of good pickups. There will be a ramp that leads to a door to the outside. Even if you are in there, depending on your difficulty the CPUs will find you. HintsJunkyard: when you pick somebody up with the crane drop them it the metal bars when they are inside the bars catch them then their health will keep going down until they die!Neon city: This isn't a cheat but I know how to reach the balcony, alls you got to do is ramp to the room where the health is then turn to a wall with cracks in it, and keep shooting it untill it breaks there should be a floating green thing that looks like that craft flying above the city go inside it and wait then that craft will pick you up and take you to the balcony. Or you can try it the hard way and jump up to the balcony I've done that before.Amazona B.C.: well I've found a really secret underground tunnel well fall down the cracks, where the ground looks like ice. I can't tell the exact direction to the path but look for cracks down there then blow the wall up or slam into the wall and if you found it you should see through the wall like x-ray vision if you don't want to die I'd use invincibilityTwisted Metal 4 Cheats.

Level SecretsConstruction Yard - Destroy door on the crane in the middle of the map. You can control the crane by getting inside and then pressing the X button when a car moves inside the target area.

Make sure to drop them in the fire area.When you come to the area where there are 3 rooftop ramps, choose the very left one and it will take you to a conveyor belt with full health on it. After going to the other side of the belt, there is an object on the ground that can be blown up, revealing a secret basement.Neon City - There is a balcony with full health on it, but I can't find out how to get there yet.

All I know is that you can see it if you go on the train tracks.Neon City Secret - Follow the train tracks up to the 2nd level. On the side that the teleport is on there is a little ramp you take to break the glass for some health and a couple of weapon pickups. In that little room shoot the wall pannel that is cracked. Once it blows up there will be a green 'Train Icon' Sit on the icon until you get picked up by the hoovering train. It will take you to the secret balcony which has a full health and some good weapon pickups. Road Rage - Look for signs that say East Erie.

Follow their pathways until you come to an area where you see a blue glass building that is behind the concrete road side. You can blast through this to find a full health, and good weapon pickups.Bedroom - Break the lamp to get lightning, and then make sure that everyone is in middle before you use it.

There are several gasoline bottles that can be destroyed, revealing secret passageways to full health and good weapon pickups.Amazonia B.C.- Basically try to go from ramp to ramp until you reach a portal that will take you to the top of the ring area. At the top there is full health, lightning, and other stuff.Oil Rig - You can destroy the helicopter with an auto lob, or other elevated missle, but I wouldn't suggest doing that. The helicopter drops off a half-health every couple minutes on the pad, but if you destroy it, you only get power missles and a couple other weaker pickups.Minions Maze - Everything in this level is at the very top, and the underground basement. Both are in the middle.Carnival - To get inside the ghost house, use something to blast the floor in front of the door with. There is also an initialed stone at the bottom near the roller coaster with a breakaway floor that takes you through a narrow passageway filled with gravestones.

The full health is on the roller coaster, and to get the lightning, turbo off the coaster onto the big top tent. The best way to kill Sweet Tooth on this level, is to get the proximity mine pickups, and force him to follow you through the ghost house and onto the roller coaster. Don't try to face him close up, because his special will tear you up.I was kind of disappointed that there were no new innovative ideas like the crane after the first level, unless I just missed something. Please list any level secrets you have found.