Seventeen armed vehicles clash in destructible arenas for Calypso's tournament. Twisted Metal Head-On delivers a snappy and hilarious portable spin, four-player ad hoc versus for diabolical sessions.
Your verdict
Category
Racing4 players12+
Description
Seventeen armed vehicles clash across ruined arenas in frantic combat racing to win Calypso's tournament. Published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released in Europe in September 2005. Seventeen vehicles with distinct abilities, destructible arenas, iconic special attacks, four-player ad hoc versus. Multilingual version.
Twisted Metal - Head-On review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
The vehicle roster belongs in a cabinet of curiosities: an ice-cream truck, an ambulance, a hearse and a taxi rub shoulders with welded-together contraptions, each overloaded with visible weaponry. The arenas collapse live, reducing urban settings to carcasses where the vehicles' bright colours become the only landmark.
The musical tone embraces the cruel funfair: saturated guitars played in blunt chords, heavy electronic drums, samples of sirens and distorted laughter recurring like jingles. Each arena turns on a short riff, insistent enough to be forever associated with the vehicle you first discovered it in.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Pure, deranged vehicular combat: arenas riddled with traps, an arsenal of devastating weapons and crazy rides to unlock. The pleasure springs from this explosive chaos where you blast rivals mid-race, especially with several players. Snappy, funny and full of personality, a roaring blow-off that turns every game into a memorable battle, ideal wirelessly among friends.
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾1,5 GB📅09/09/2005
Published by Sony
Twisted Metal - Head-On (PSP) price, value & rarity
An Incognito vehicular combat game transposing the chaos of the Twisted Metal saga to PSP, blending destructive arenas, heavy weapons and deranged characters. Widely distributed in the West, its collector interest stays low and rests on this faithful transposition of a cult franchise rather than scarcity. An affordable piece for fans of car combat and brisk arcade play.
Better with friends
A motorized melee where over-armed vehicles blast each other across destructible arenas, up to four locally. Chaos is king: grabbing the right power-up, dodging a homing missile and finishing off a flaming rival sets off shouts and laughter. The snappy driving and absurd reversals make it an ideal competitive stress-reliever, linked between consoles for express, scrappy rounds.
Is Twisted Metal - Head-On still worth playing in 2026?
Twisted Metal - Head-On sends seventeen armed vehicles to clash in destructible arenas to win Calypso's tournament. The title signs a brisk, hilarious portable spin-off, with four-player ad hoc versus for particularly explosive evenings. Incog Inc. respects the Twisted Metal grammar with its unhinged characters and dark humour. An excellent portable pick today.
