Good: A solid game that definitely has an audience. Might lack replay value, could be too short or there are some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

Twisted Metal is currently the oldest franchise that is exclusive to the PlayStation brand that is still running to this day. The series' first instalment was released way back in 1995 on the original PlayStation, which has been followed by numerous sequels over the years.

Spinning tires, or spinning in its grave? Twisted Metal is a hard review to write because there is just so much nostalgia here. This game reminds me of those late nights with friends, a case of Mountain Dew, and my Playstation so much that my bias shows through.

Great game play; Online MP is outstanding

The story lacks; Brings nothing new to the table

After a long sabbatical, one of Sony's most nostalgic franchises is back. Twisted Metal will be instantly familiar to the legion of gamers who spent hours orchestrating vehicular mayhem on their PSOnes. As it turns out, after so many years, very little has changed.

Creative modes and interesting character design; Strong multiplayer; Well-designed arenas and nice array of vehicles

Pinball physics and extremely old-school design add frustration; Single-player mode is lackluster; Controls can be problematic and certain level and design elements are poorly executed; Unspectacular graphics

As a package Twisted Metal stands very much as a singular vision of David Jaffe and Eat Sleep Play. It revels in its uncompromising nature and harkens back to the series' roots, which go back as far the PlayStation itself.

There's always the danger, with games that have spent a little bit too long in development, that one of a few things may have happened. Perhaps the world has moved on just that little bit too much by the time you finally release your game.

Thoroughly destructible arenas; Large variety of vehicles and weapons; Nuke is great fun

Controls as complex as ever - steep learning curve; Singleplayer component a frustrating afterthought; Has barely evolved at all

Being a staple of Sony's impressive list of exclusive titles, it surprised me that it took so long for a Twisted Metal game to hit the PS3.   I dabbled with the Twisted Metal franchise on both the PSone and PS2 back in the day.  The car combat genre has come a long way since its inception.

When the original Twisted Metal was released in November of 1995, I was 10, and just about to enter junior high. That whole next year, a small group of friends and I spent far too much time on the couch, chasing each other down and giggling as we took one another out with missiles.

There is no game quite like Twisted Metal. Except, of course, for games already called Twisted Metal. This superfast, superdeep, superskill-based series has been dormant for ten years for a reason: if people want to play deathmatches, they tend to pick up a shooter in which dudes run around shooting...

Twisted Metal never escapes the fact that it feels completely old and archaic. The premise is timeless, and there should always be room for a game of mindless destruction, but the execution is poor here.