40 Fun Facts About Twisted Metal 2

Which Paris landmark can players destroy in Twisted Metal 2 to open a route onto the rooftops?

The Eiffel Tower topples when an explosive is set off inside it, forming bridges between the rooftops. Any rival caught in the tower when it blows loses about half their health.

Which New York landmark in Twisted Metal 2 changes into a different figure when hit by a missile?

The Statue of Liberty turns into a woman in a red bikini when shot, and a second hit blows the new figure apart.

Which landmark can missiles blow up in Quake Zone Rumble, the Los Angeles level of Twisted Metal 2?

The Hollywood sign stands on a hillside above the tournament's first arena, and its letters explode after a couple of missile hits.

The Drop Zone, a Twisted Metal 2 level where chunks of the floor break off and sink, is set where?

Antarctica hosts the sixth level, where sections of ice crack away and sink into the sea, taking any car still parked on them down too.

Which city hosts the eighth and final level of Twisted Metal 2, where the boss Dark Tooth waits?

Hong Kong closes the tournament with eight opponents and then the boss. Cars that clear the harbor fences land in the water and are destroyed outright.

Which Twisted Metal 2 newcomer is a man strapped between two giant wheels instead of a car's driver?

Axel serves as his own vehicle, steering the two wheels with his body. In the game's story he has been trapped in the machine for 20 years.

Which boss from the first game rises from the lava after the Amazonia battle in Twisted Metal 2?

Minion, the final boss of the original Twisted Metal, returns as a mid-tournament boss. On Easy difficulty the game ends once Amazonia is cleared.

Twisted Metal 2 introduces its final boss, Dark Tooth, as which relative of the clown Sweet Tooth?

His father, never named in the game, rises from the sewers in a house-sized black ice cream truck once the level's last opponent falls.

Which city hosts Suicide Slide, the Twisted Metal 2 arena built around an abandoned missile silo?

Moscow is the series' first battleground outside the United States, and the silo keeps handing out fresh weapons until someone destroys it.

In Twisted Metal 2's Paris level, burning which painting with napalm uncovers a hidden cheat code?

The Mona Lisa hangs in the level's Louvre, but the code revealed behind it does nothing when entered, apparently because of a misprint.

Field of Screams, the Twisted Metal 2 level with the most opponents to beat, is set where?

Holland sends nine opponents through its tulip fields and windmills, and a car trapped inside a windmill can be slammed into the ceiling with a well-placed blast.

In Twisted Metal 2's opening, what has left Los Angeles in ruins before the tournament begins?

The previous contest, held exactly a year earlier, destroyed the city, so Calypso makes the whole world this year's battleground.

Which Twisted Metal 2 contestant rides a red motorcycle with a sidecar instead of driving a car?

Mr. Grimm, the reaper of souls, is a glass cannon: his bike carries one of the most powerful special weapons in the game but can take little punishment.

Shadow, a Twisted Metal 2 newcomer whose special weapon explodes on a second button press, is which kind of car?

A hearse fits its driver, the mortician Mortimer, who enters not for a prize but to take revenge on Calypso for the people killed in his tournaments.

What kind of vehicle is Hammerhead, which crushes Twisted Metal 2 rivals just by driving over them?

A monster truck, Hammerhead crushes any car it drives onto without a press of the fire button. Its two drivers, Mike and Stu, are simply out for a thrill.

In Twisted Metal 2's opening scene, Calypso looks down on the ruined city from which aircraft?

An airship carries Calypso above the burning city as he picks this year's battlegrounds, and the same blimp serves as his office.

Suicide Swamp, a hidden arena in Twisted Metal 2, was taken from which other game by the same studio?

Jet Moto, a hoverbike racer released around the same time, lent the swamp course, where its floating orbs can still be collected but do nothing.

Twisted Metal 2 hides Sweet Tooth's unlock code in New York, readable only by doing what?

Falling to the streets below costs a life, and the code sits far beneath the middle of the level, so reading it means sacrificing one.

Twisted Metal 2 is set exactly one year after the first tournament, held on which holiday?

Christmas Eve 2005 is the date of the original tournament, which puts the sequel's globe-trotting tournament in 2006.

Which Twisted Metal 2 driver, in the dune buggy Grasshopper, turns out to be Calypso's child?

Krista Sparks enters only to be reunited with Calypso, but she has been rebuilt as a cyborg rigged to explode, and their embrace kills them both.

Amanda Watts, who drives the race car Twister in Twisted Metal 2, wishes to go how fast?

The speed of light is her wish, and even Twister's license plate, LHYTSPD, spells it out.

Simon Whittlebone, the fired architect driving Mr. Slam in Twisted Metal 2, wants to build what?

The world's tallest structure is his goal after being fired from his job, and the manual has him dreaming of a building that reaches Heaven itself.

Roadkill's driver in Twisted Metal 2, a homeless man named Marcus, believes the world is what?

A dream is what he calls it, and his ending agrees: he wakes in a hospital after a huge freeway pileup while the other drivers lie in comas.

Captain Rogers, the decorated soldier driving Warthog in Twisted Metal 2, enters to win back what?

His youth, in the form of a 20-year-old's body, is what the 105-year-old captain asks for, and the manual hints that the wish will not go as he hopes.

Captain Jamie Roberts drives the police car Outlaw 2 in Twisted Metal 2 to find which relative?

Her brother, a fellow police officer, vanished in last year's tournament, and she fits her patrol car with a rocket booster to bring him home.

Which name belongs to the clown behind the wheel of Sweet Tooth, a hidden vehicle in Twisted Metal 2?

Needles Kane gets his flaming hair for the first time in this game, and his ride can be chosen only after a code is entered on the selection screen.

Thumper, the low rider in Twisted Metal 2, attacks with which special weapon from under its hood?

A flamethrower shoots a beam of fire from the hood, and two well-aimed blasts are enough to destroy any ordinary opponent.

Spectre's special missiles in Twisted Metal 2 are hard to dodge because they can do what?

Pass through walls is exactly what its Ghost Missiles do, homing in on a target regardless of cover, so the only defense is to zigzag out of their path.

Which Twisted Metal 2 pick-up sits where it is dropped until the fire button is pressed again?

Remote Bomb is the strongest pick-up in the game, and a flashing dot on the display marks one that has been laid but not yet set off.

Which studio, founded by former Evans & Sutherland engineers, developed Twisted Metal 2 for Sony?

SingleTrac also made the first Twisted Metal, but its sale to GT Interactive meant it could no longer work on a series that Sony owned.

Which designer produced and wrote Twisted Metal 2 years before directing the first God of War?

David Jaffe headed design on the first two Twisted Metal games, but on the third he was credited only under special thanks.

Twisted Metal 2 was sold in Europe under which subtitle in place of the number in its name?

World Tour suits a sequel that swaps a single city for battlegrounds on several continents. In Japan the game was known as Twisted Metal EX.

Which later Twisted Metal game for the PSP was made as a direct sequel to Twisted Metal 2?

Head-On ignores the events of the third and fourth games, and its developers brought back the bright colors and cartoonish characters of the early entries.

Which publisher released a one-shot Twisted Metal 2 comic book the same year the game came out?

DC Comics put out the one-shot, written by Jamie Delano, and it centers on Calypso and his backstory.

Which game beat Twisted Metal 2 to Electronic Gaming Monthly's Action Game of the Year award?

Die Hard Trilogy took the award, but a year later the magazine still ranked Twisted Metal 2 among its 100 best games of all time.

In Twisted Metal 2's final level, the code for a secret arena is printed on top of what?

A subway train carries the code on its roof, and the trains are hazards themselves, dealing a little damage to any car they hit.

Twisted Metal 2's manual places the ruins of its Amazonia level, Fire Walk, in which country?

Colombia is where the manual puts these ruins, describing them as lost to the modern world. Drivers have to dodge molten lava while they fight.

Besides the PlayStation, Twisted Metal 2 came out on which platform, with modem and Internet play?

Windows PC owners got a version with slightly cut-down graphics that ran without a 3D accelerator card, a selling point for modest computers of the day.

Two years after launch, Twisted Metal 2 was reissued in North America under which PlayStation budget label?

Greatest Hits status came with a new publisher's name on the box, 989 Studios, the Sony label that went on to make the third game itself.

Twisted Metal 2's energy attacks, such as the freeze burst and the shield, are triggered in which way?

D-pad button combinations such as left, right, up drain an energy meter above the weapon display, which slowly refills by itself.