Critic Reviews
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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.
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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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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