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Twisted Metal Game Details And Multiplayer Demo Released

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Sony has announced that the Twisted Metal Multiplayer Demo goes live on the PlayStation Store today. Chad Cox, the Producer of Twisted Metal, and Game Director David Jaffe were kind enough to fill us in on the details of the demo and a little of what can be expected in the full game.

For the Demo you will have eight vehicles to choose from, each with their own unique special weapons. There will be two multiplayer modes: Classic free-for-all Death Match, and team-based Nuke mode—a Twisted take on Capture the Flag that’s brand new to the series. As well as a Challenge mode, where you can practice with each vehicle to hone your destructive skills.

The following is for  the final retail game, not today’s multiplayer demo, but it will give you a closer look at what to expect this February 14th.

The new Twisted Metal supports Party and Clan systems allowing players to easily jump into ranked and unranked matches together. The party system was key, not just because it’s a staple for online games.

Split screen local co-op has been a staple of the series since TM2 and it’s back and better than ever. The campaign that you and a buddy can go through together is more varied than any other TM campaign we’ve done. And the other split screen modes- for 2 to 4 players on the same tv- allow for free for all and team games with lots of host options for players so they can tweak and adjust the game so it always says fresh. In 2 player split the players have 30+ levels to choose from. In 3 and 4 player split, players can choose from 10 battlegrounds.

Pedestrians will have gameplay relevance. For example in the level called Black Rock Stadium players can park their vehicles on pressure plates. Sitting on these plates long enough causes audience members to get ejected from the stands. Each audience member that is ejected is wearing one of two kinds of vests: a vest with a cross on it and a vest with a question mark. Hitting cross vested peds yields health. Hitting mystery peds yields a random weapon pick up.

If you kill an enemy, the drive and gunner eject from the explosion and their burning bodies go running around in terror. After a few seconds they die, but if you can hit the gunner before he dies, you get a random weapon. If you hit the driver before he dies, you get a little extra health.

All of the human characters in the new Twisted made it in mainly because they represent the team’s favorite from a 50+ roster of characters that live in the Twisted Metal universe. So besides Tooth, we’re all big fans of Calypso, Mr. Grimm, Dollface, and Preacher. We also tend to dig No Face and Minion. As for vehicles, we love the cast of vehicles in the new Twisted and that’s a big reason they made the cut. We do miss some of our old friends however, such as Thumper, Pit Viper, Yellow Jacket, Twisted, and Mr. Slam.

Twisted Metal will be available for the PlayStation 3 on February 14th, 2012.