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Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 55 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Incognito Inc.
Genre(s): Car Combat
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: November 27, 2001
Summary
This mischievous crew of half-pint terrors has seized a few remote control cars and let them loose to raise havoc in public places. With RC in hand, these antenna-toting cars will tear through abandoned movie theaters, bowling alleys, sand boxes and just about anywhere they can cause a ruckus. And these kids are fighting with firepower -- look on with amazement as they wage combat on opponents with flaming fireworks and hurl toy rockets at their rivals. [Sony]
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What The Critics Said
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Gamezilla!
Except for the cut-scenes, the graphics weren’t too exciting and the sound is just blah. The sloppy control and light gravity also don’t help too much. Despite all this, I still found this to be a fun game once I got the hang of it and I also found myself becoming strangely addicted to it.
Read Full Review >PSX Nation
"Twisted Metal 2" is light years beyond Small Brawl. Small Brawl is more akin to a Gameboy Advance game than a full fledged PSX SKU.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Some will immediately be turned away by the graphics and others by the more childish design, but if your PlayStation is still kicking, you might want to check it out.
Read Full Review >Hot Games
Doesn't add anything to the venerable Twisted Metal series - it just subtracts, and subtracts, and subtracts, until the only thing small is the fun.
Read Full Review >Play Magazine
This must be where Martha Stewart’s evil siblings reside. [Feb 2002, p.62]
GameZone
While we were practically salivating to get started on this title, we spent an hour trying to get past the very unfinished feeling graphics and lack of any real depth to the changes included in Small Brawl.
Read Full Review >Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
Isn't a bad game by any means, but it feels like a definite step in the wrong direction. [Jan 2002, p.147]
GamePro
It’s the execution that lacks. Laboriously slow gameplay leaves little to get excited about—there’s no real sense of speed.
Read Full Review >IGN
The menus are horrendous, and the graphics are appalling. Come on, when you see a series of games, you expect them to improve, in graphics, sound, gameplay, and level design. In TMSB they're all worse.
Read Full Review >XenGamers
Small Brawl would be a perfectly recommendable weekend rental for Twisted Metal fans if it weren't for its questionable and unfaithful gameplay.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
Small Brawl could function as a gateway for younger kids interested in the series, but are not quite ready to tackle the difficulty of "Twisted Metal: Black."
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
A slapdash, sloppy and unimaginative retrofit. [Jan 2002, p.232]
Cinescape
The graphics, described in one word, would have to be muddy. The framerate seems to be unnecessarily depleted from previous versions.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
This game doesn't even live up to the first four PSX titles in the series. It's that bad. I just feel dirty playing it, and Sony should feel worse for publishing it. [Jan 2002, p.88]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Liam J. gave it a10:
This game has weapons, better characters, and I like the fact that its not all blowing up actual people.I also like how you can unlock cars and new levels.
Andrew C. gave it a10:
The best Twisted Metal ever!! Better then the other ones. This game makes me speechless!
Dritero J. gave it a7:
after the other series of tm this was weaker in many ways the graffic the maps the lighting the controls etc but still i love all tm series even this oen
Dritero J. gave it a7:
I really liked all the other series of tm, this one even that it was produced in 2001 had sucky graphics and maps but I enjoyed it a lot, it was like a bonus after all other tm series.
[Anonymous] gave it a3:
It was ok but there weren't enough unlockables. I like all the other tms better.
Clipla J. gave it a2:
this game is so awsome.
Tres M. gave it a 9:
The graphics are not quite up to par, but overall it is an amusing addition to the Twisted Metal world. The thought of the drivers from previous games as children was very creative. I let my little brothers play it so they quite asking about TM Black.
