It actually took us a while to figure out which they were.

To call the three new modes - manhunt, last man standing and collector - 'uninspired' would be like saying that Alastair Campbell 'could be happier' with the BBC, and the extra power-ups are completely inconspicuous. What it doesn't have thought is anything particularly new to latch onto. It's got hellish looking clowns, post-apocalyptic wastelands, chaos, decay, brooding unpleasantness and an intangible hopelessness to it. On the other hand, mid-teen death metal enthusiasts (or even enthusiastic death mentalists), who wear nose rings and black fishnet shirts, and who thought Marilyn Manson's recent Top of the Pops outing was an intelligent parody of current pop exhibitionism, will be more at home here than they would in the Osbourne family crypt on Halloween as lightning cracks. And not a far-flung, futuristic one, either.

It simply looks like a game from another generation. Although we're sure this is the same engine and indeed largely the same game as before, finely detailed explosions and car designs seem to have swiped the nearest parachute and blown the emergency exit, and the resulting decompression has stripped the walls of vibrancy and left uninspired, repetitive grey sludge flapping in the breeze. Twisted Metal: Black Online, apart from mocking the noble colon, is little more than an airline movie screening of the same show, with visuals once proud now exposed as grainy. It might look a bit crap these days, but back then each car's dainty, projectile-launching protrusions throbbed into life eye-catchingly enough, illuminating the post-apocalyptic wastelands of wherever with some fervency, and the fast-paced, Carmageddon-esque gameplay held our attention for quite some time, with a little help from countless gratifyingly destructible levels.Īnd, we told ourselves, if Incog were to come back in a couple of years' time with a vastly overhauled graphics engine, lots of new toys and a few more cogent gameplay modes then we'd certainly be keen to have another look.Ī pity then that they've done nothing of the sort. A couple of years ago, we were quite taken with Twisted Metal: Black.

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