For most of my youth, the Andriessen household was a one-console home. We had an NES which we traded in for an SNES which we traded in for a PlayStation. Those first two consoles were hooked up to the living-room television, but when we got our PlayStation, we also got a TV set for my brother to hook it up to. I was supposed to be able to use it whenever, but it never really felt like our PlayStation so much as his. This feeling was only amplified by the games we bought for it. There was a lot of Madden in my youth and I learned to love it. I also recall a great number of racing games in those days, but the one title I think both he and I enjoyed immensely was Twisted Metal 2.
I cut my teeth on the first game not long before the sequel came out. Twisted Metal was absolute fire to a 10-year-old at the time, but it was Twisted Metal 2 that really taught me to appreciate the intricacies of the series and learn to love vehicle combat. I never enjoyed — and still don’t to this day — the battle mode in Mario Kart. Twisted Metal has just always done it better, and unlike other fighting games of the era, I actually got deep into the lore of the series. I knew the backstories and motivations for every character in that game, none of which would into my decision of who I played as because I always picked Mr. Grimm.
It’s baffling to me Twisted Metal isn’t one of the biggest properties for Sony right now. I don’t know what went wrong after Black, but I could use some Twisted Metal in my life. And if I can’t get a brand-spanking-new entry on my PS4, I’ll happily take the second one on the PlayStation Classic.
Source: Destructoid You can’t call it the PlayStation Classic without these timeless PS1 games