Anyone who's waiting in line to play a PS2 port of a PSP remake of Twisted Metal 2 (more or less, right?) will absolutely love the extra features crammed into this deal. The biggest and best is a 30 minute documentary that includes interviews with franchise mastermind and frequently quotable David Jaffe. It's quite interesting to hear the developers' honest opinions on the first game, how it was initially perceived as a total failure and the second game's rise to fame. The candid statements on the awful third and fourth games are worth hearing too. If you're interested in Twisted Metal in the slightest, this documentary justifies the price.

If you're a really big fan, and remember the super-bland endings to the first game, seeing the lost live-action endings is priceless. They're cheesy, campy, over the top, terribly acted and every other descriptor you'd add to a budgetless high school film project. Here's just a taste:

Once you've laughed your ass off at these bad boys enough there's still one more feature of note - the Sweet Ride, an incomplete third-person adventure game starring Sweet Tooth. It's brown, drab and ugly as hell, but that's not the point. It's included as a means to uncover 29 factoids about the unfinished Twisted Metal Black 2, including concept art, behind-the-scenes info and developer photos. Guiding a sloppily controlled Sweet Tooth around a network of sewers is just as boring as it sounds, but it's fun to see in a "here's what might have been" kind of way.

Like we said in the very first paragraph, this is a love letter to longtime fans first and a cheap means for new players to meet the series second. Head-On is a complete game and fun for a while, but the extra features are the real reason you'll want to sniff around.

Feb 6, 2008