First called Advanced Attacks in Twisted Metal 2, these are pushbutton commands entered during gameplay, that require varying ammounts of energy from a regenerating meter.
Twisted Metal 2[]
Introduced in Twisted Metal 2, some of these are modified pick-ups from Twisted Metal (1995); The Freeze Missile, Drop Mines, Rear Fire, and Jump (Catapult). New attacks are Napalm, Invisibility, Shield and Fire Minion's Special Weapon (3 Homing Missiles + Freeze).
Rear Freeze Missile/Napalm only works when your weapon inventory is empty, otherwise you'd fire the selected weapon backwards. Twisted Metal 4's button inputs fixes this.
Effect Code ------------------------ Freeze Burst ← → ↑ Napalm → ← ↑ High Jump ↑ ↑ ← Energy Shield ↑ ↑ → Rear Attack ← → ↓ Drop Mine → ← ↓ Invisibility Cloak ↑ ↓ ← → Minion's Special ↑ ↓ ↑ ↑ R2 (You can hold R2 while pressing Up, Down, Up, Up, also; takes Full Energy Meter) Rear Freeze ← → ↑ ← → ↓ (Weapon inventory must be empty, or you'll just fire the selected weapon backwards) Rear Napalm → ← ↑ ← → ↓ (Weapon inventory must be empty, or you'll just fire the selected weapon backwards)
Twisted Metal III[]
Twisted Metal III removed all but the Freeze, Jump, Rear Fire, and Invisibility.
Effect Code -------------------- Freeze Missile ← → ↑ High Jump ↑ ↑ ← Rear Fire ← → ↓ Invisibility ↑ ↓ ← →
Twisted Metal 4[]
Twisted Metal 4 introduced a handy Teleport command, and Massive Attack/Rear Massive Attack, which fire a barrage of missiles.
Effect Code ------------------------- Freeze ← → ↑ ↑ Hyperspace ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ Invisibility ↓ ↓ ↑ ↑ Jump ↑ ↑ ← Massive attack ↑ ↓ ↑ ↓ ↑ Rear attack → ← ↓ ↓ Rear freeze ← → ↓ ↓ Rear massive attack ↑ ↓ ↑ ↓ ↓ Shield ↑ ↑ →
Twisted Metal: Black[]
In Twisted Metal: Black onwards, the Jump energy attack is simply pushing L1+R1 simultaneously.
Effect Code ----------------------- Freeze Missile ↑ ↓ ↑ Land mine → ← ↓ Charged land mine → ← (Hold ↓) Invisibility ← ← ↓ ↓ Shield → → ↓ ↓ Rear Fire ← → ↓ + L2 Jump L1 + R1
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl[]
In Twisted Metal: Small Brawl, most of the Energy Attacks are the same as Black's, except that there's no Invisibility and there's one for the Special attack.
Effect Code -------------------- Freeze Missile ↑ ↓ ↑ Shield → → ↓ ↓ Rear Fire ← → ↓ + L2 Drop Mine → ← ↓ Special ↑ ↓ → Jump L1 + R1
Twisted Metal: Head-On[]
In Twisted Metal: Head-On, there's a new energy attack that sends that a shockwave which destroys incoming missiles called a Radial Blast or Flak, and the Napalm makes a return.
Effect Code ----------------------- Freeze Missile ↑ ↓ ↑ Shield → → ↓ ↓ Drop Mine → ← ↓ Invisibility ← ← ↓ ↓ Radial Blast/Flak ↑ ↓ ← → Rear Fire ↑ ↓ ↓ Napalm → ← ↑ ↑ + Fire button Jump L1 + R1
Twisted Metal (2012)[]
In Twisted Metal (2012), the command inputs have been simplified even further. The D-Pad controls the energy attacks now. The freeze missiles are called "EMP Blasts".
Effect Code --------------------- Drop Mine ← EMP Blast ↑ Shield → Rear Fire ↓ Upgraded Mine ← + Δ Rear EMP Blast ↑ + Δ Upgraded Shield → + Δ Jump L1 + R1