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Twisted Metal: Black

Release date(s)	^NAJune 18, 2001 ^EUDecember 7, 2001
Developer	Incog Inc. Entertainment
Publisher	Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform	PlayStation 2
Rating	Mature

Twisted Metal: Black is a vehicle combat video game developed by Incognito Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 game console. It is the fifth installment to the Twisted Metal series and was released June 18, 2001. An online-enabled multiplayer-only variant, Twisted Metal: Black Online was released later as a free send away. Both Twisted Metal: Black and Twisted Metal: Black Online were reissued as part of Sony's Greatest Hits program. Twisted Metal: Black is now available to download from PlayStation Store for $9.99. This is a direct re-port of the original PS2 version. If you purchased the Limited Edition of Twisted Metal (2012), you obtained a code for a free download of the game.

StoryEdit

Twisted Metal: Black is set in a fictional town named Midtown. All the stories focus on the perspective of each of the characters. Most of the characters in the games are being held in Blackfield Asylum, a mental institution. They then meet a man named Calypso, whom people believe to have ability to grant anyone's wishes. However, the characters will have to win Calypso's Twisted Metal tournament to make their wishes. Twisted Metal: Black is set in a universe far from the world in previous installments, being more graphic, violent, and dark. Most drivers are also now asylum patients released by Calypso by unknown means.

ContestantsEdit

Twisted Metal: Black has a diverse cast made up from both new and returning vehicles, some of which have changed drastically from their previous appearances. There are a total of 17 vehicles in the game: 10 are available from the start, 5 are unlockable, and 2 are unplayable.

Returning ContestantsEdit

Vehicle	Driver(s)	Description
Outlaw	Agent Stone	Return to the past to undo a horrible mistake that haunts his life.
Mr. Grimm	Mr. Grimm	Exact revenge on the man who turned him into a monster.
Roadkill	John Doe	Overcome amnesia and remember who he is.
Spectre	Bloody Mary	End her path of loneliness and find "true love".
Darkside	Dollface	Escape the mask.
Shadow	Raven	Return the favor to the high school bullies that shattered her life.
Sweet Tooth	Needles Kane	Seeks the antidote to the curse that torments him.

New ContestantsEdit

Vehicle	Driver(s)	Description
Junkyard Dog	Billy Ray Stillwell	Get payback on the man who took everything from him.
Brimstone	Preacher	Purge himself of the demon dwelling from within him.
Crazy 8	No-Face	Get revenge on the man who ruined his face.

Boss/Unlockable ContestantsEdit

Vehicle	Driver(s)	Description
Yellow Jacket	Charlie Kane's son	(Unlocked at Level 1: Junkyard) Find sanctuary to life with his undead father.
Axel	Axel	(Unlocked at Level 2: Freeway) Return the favor on the man who murdered his beloved wife.
Warthog	Cage	(Unlocked at: Level 2: Suburbs) Remove his compassion for human life in order to become the best serial killer.
Manslaughter	Black	(Unlocked at Level 5: Prison Passage) Possibly to assassinate Calypso
Minion	Marcus Kane	(Sub-boss, unlocked after finishing the game with all other characters) Previous winner of Twisted Metal; no known wish.
Tanker	Tanker	(Mini-boss, unplayable) No wish; Enforcer of Warhawk.
Warhawk	Warhawk	(Final boss, unplayable) No wish; Attempts to stop final TM contestant.

Game ModesEdit

Single PlayerEdit

Story
Challenge
Endurance

Multi-PlayerEdit

2-4 Player Death Match
2 Player Co-Op
2 Player Last Man Standing
Twisted Metal: Black Online

Single Player BattlegroundsEdit

When playing the story mode in Twisted Metal: Black, you will not play at all the battlegrounds. Instead, you make a choice between the Suburbs and Freeway as Stage 2, Downtown or Highway Loop as Stage 3, and Snowy Roads or Drive-in Movie as Stage 6. All other stages are set: Junkyard, Minion's Stadium, Prison Passage, Skyscrapers, and Warhawk's Rooftop as Stages 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8, respectively.

An all-new element special in Black is Calypso's helicopter fleet. They will drop at times, dragging weapons and health. Environmental attacks are available at most levels, being much more effective than previous renditions.

Junkyard
Suburbs
Freeway (unlockable for challenge & multiplayer mode)
Highway Loop
Downtown
Minion's Stadium (unlockable for challenge & multiplayer mode)
Prison Passage (unlockable for challenge & multiplayer mode)
Snowy Roads
Drive-In Movie
Skyscrapers (unlockable for challenge & multiplayer mode)
Warhawk's Rooftop (unlockable for multiplayer mode)

Multiplayer BattlegroundsEdit

In addition to all the single player battlegrounds being available for multiplayer use, there are several designed specifically for multiplayer deathmatch mode.

Asylum Halls
Dogpound
Elevators (unlockable)
Power Plant (unlockable)
Sewers (unlockable)
Prison Ship (unlockable)
Mini Downtown
Mini Suburbs (unlockable)

As their name imply, Mini Downtown and Mini Suburbs are just smaller versions of the original stages, making them more suitable for 2-player combat. The Skyscrapers level is smaller in multiplayer mode due to the absence of the cathedral and the round-shaped building.

TriviaEdit

Twisted Metal: Black is the first game in the series to get an M rating from ESRB, particularly due to the graphic depiction of violence in the game. Twisted Metal (2012) would become the second game to have the M rating.
The PAL version of the game greatly suffered cuts which included the removal of all the cutscenes (except a heavily cut middle cutscene of the selected vehicle entering and leaving Minion's Stadium and a shot of the vehicle driving down a street in the ending cutscene). Other cuts included the removal of the Boeing 747, the loading screen text pieces and in game info of the drivers. However, these short clips of the cutscenes were shown in the credits, as well as a gameplay clip showing the 747 being shot down. Also, flaming drivers do not run screaming from the wreckage after you make a kill, though such feature returned in Twisted Metal (2012). For a full list of changes follow this link.
A producer of 3D and Flash animation created a series of six original Flash "Webisodes" to promote the release of Twisted Metal: Black, beginning with No-Face, followed by Billy Ray Stillwell, Dollface, Bloody Mary, and Mr. Grimm, as well as the series' iconic character Needles Kane.
It is revealed after you unlock Minion that the events of Twisted Metal: Black take place within the mind of Sweet Tooth.
The game's main theme is Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones.
Mr. Grimm's middle cutscene flashback takes place in 1971, during the Vietnam War, and in his ending, he states that he has been in the asylum for 30 years. From this, it can be deduced that the game takes place in the year 2001, four years before the original Twisted Metal game takes place.
Twisted Metal: Black can be seen on a billboard in the game "Downhill Domination" which was also made by Incognito

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