Star Wars-skinned TWISTED METAL, and just as ridiculous as that sounds. In itself, that would be okay (dumb video games are cool), but it's also extremely barebones and doesn't play well at all. A solid half of the characters, weapons, power-ups, and levels just straight up do not work and are actively confusing and frustrating to engage with, so that's not a great starting point. Accepting that, the rest is just bland and doesn't offer much. Handful of stages. A couple modes. Character endings are under ten seconds long and the unlockables don't even get one. Eh.

The highlight is probably a couple fun dnb-style remixes of the old Star Wars score standbys. Alllllllmost makes drifting around in circles pew-pewing the ridiculous array of mismatched characters^ a tiny, tiny bit exciting.

^one of them is wee 'lil Boba Fett, flyin' around! No vehicle, just jetpackin' about endlessly while his legs comically dangle loose like he's a little baby being carried somewhere in a bjorn. Weird game, man, lol.

Reviewed on Nov 13, 2022


2 Comments


1 year ago

I played the DC version a while ago when I first got DGemu set up and I forgot how terrible the weapon system was in this, easily the worst more prominent car combat I played lol. At least the Rancor kinda kicked ass.

1 year ago

I'm happy you say that because I almost qualified this review with something like "I'm not a car combat guy" - never played more than a couple minutes of Twisted Metal, no Rogue Trip, no Vigilante 8, etc., so I worried that maybe I just wasn't 'getting' it.

I do want to play all those someday though.