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Twisted Metal: Small Brawl

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Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
51
7.7 User Score:

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]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75

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.

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74

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.

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65

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.

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60

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.

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60

Play Magazine

This must be where Martha Stewart’s evil siblings reside. [Feb 2002, p.62]

55

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.

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50

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]

50

GamePro

It’s the execution that lacks. Laboriously slow gameplay leaves little to get excited about—there’s no real sense of speed.

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45

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.

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42

XenGamers

Small Brawl would be a perfectly recommendable weekend rental for Twisted Metal fans if it weren't for its questionable and unfaithful gameplay.

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42

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."

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35

Electronic Gaming Monthly

A slapdash, sloppy and unimaginative retrofit. [Jan 2002, p.232]

33

Cinescape

The graphics, described in one word, would have to be muddy. The framerate seems to be unnecessarily depleted from previous versions.

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30

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.

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