Twisted Metal: Black (PlayStation 2)
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Developer: Incognito Entertainment This game has unused areas. This game has a prerelease article |
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Twisted Metal: Black brings the car combat series to the PlayStation 2, after the last few outings on the PlayStation left a lot to be desired.
It's also the most popular of the Twisted Metal games, probably due being absolutely covered in such prime early-2000s edginess that even the Carmageddon franchise hadn't dipped their toes into.
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Hidden Cheats
While inside the game, hold L1 + R1 + L2 + R2 and press the following buttons:
Button Inputs | Reward | Effect |
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Triangle, X, Left, Right | Health Regain | It's unclear how this works. |
Square, Square, Square, Down | Infinite Weapons | Gives you all weapons and unlimited ammo. |
Up, X, Up, X | Everything Unlocked (Enable Code) | You will hear a confirmation gun sound effect if inputted correctly. No message will be displayed. This is needed in order to activate the cheat below. |
Left, Circle, Left, Circle | Everything Unlocked | Unlocks all cars and players. You will need to activate the cheat above first or this cheat will not work. You will also need to wait 12 seconds after activating the cheat above for this cheat to work. After 12 seconds have passed, you may enter this cheat. You cannot exceed the time limit of 24 seconds or the above cheat will reset. |
The unlock everything cheat is pretty tricky to get right. If you fail to activate it under 24 seconds, you will need to enable the "Everything Unlocked (Enable Code)" cheat again.
Playable Warhawk
His image as seen above is in the character select screen. It is not normally possible to play as him however, with hacks the player can play as him.
Unused Car Select Screen
Most likely a mockup version of the final car select screen. And also to note, Shadow is presented here as a placeholder before Axel was made.
Unused Cutscenes
Intro cutscenes for Manslaughter, Warthog and Axel are present in the MOV folder. Only their outro cutscenes are used in-game, with their stories told by loading screen text.
Unused Junkyard Level
To do: Find out what is different in this level. |
A unused mini version of this level can be put back in One Player Challenge mode with the following GameShark / CodeBreaker code for the US version.
Enable Code (for console only) 90225B58 0C08967E Put All Maps in One Player Challenge Mode 20425E88 00000000 20425E94 00000000 20425EC4 00000000 20425E9C 00000000 20425EA8 00000000 20425EB0 00000000 20425EB8 00000000 20425EC0 00000000 20425EC8 00000000 20425ED4 00000000 20425ED8 00000000 20425EDC 00000000 204869C4 00000001 204869CC 00000001 404869D0 000C0001 00000001 00000000 D04FB29C 00000013 00426014 00000013
Wireframe Mode
A debugging mode that turns cars into colored lines can be re-enabled with the following GameShark / CodeBreaker code:
204FB878 00000001 201C8EE8 10450245
Normal car collision is green, anything that is damage or has been damaged turns red, and car tires turn yellow.
Regional Differences
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Due to the excessive violence contained in the cutscenes, the European versions remove nearly all of the cutscenes (and thus the whole backstory) as well as the flavor text from the loading screens. Fittingly, the "Movies" option on the main menu was replaced with a "Credits" option.
In the US version, blowing up a vehicle will either send the driver running out screaming while on fire or get thrown out of their car. The European version removed this. Moreover, due to the European version being released after 9/11, the plane in Junkyard has been already crashed and the player can access the secret area with no additional effort. However, this makes getting the "Jet Fatality" bonus impossible.
Oddities
Early Character Designs in Car Select Screen
Three characters use early designs during the development of Twisted Metal: Black in the car selection screen.
- Billy Ray Stillwell has more of a mutated face, plaided shirt, more messed up hair, and the top of his head has been exposed. The final in-game cutscenes have a less mutated face, the plaided shirt is less noticeable, and his hair is normal.
- Agent Stone has no helmet or gloves, and the word "S.W.A.T." on his right chest and his vest is a bit different. The final in-game cutscenes removes the gloves and the "S.W.A.T." on his right chest and he is now wearing a helmet.
- Raven has black lipstick and a pentagram, while in the final in-game cutscenes she has an ankh and normal red lipstick.
John Doe's Inconsistent Tattoo in Cutscenes
As development progressed, some of the cutscenes were toned down to avoid controversy. One of them was John Doe's tattoo with the words "One race, one country." along with a swastika-like tattoo. Only the words were removed though you can still catch glimpses of it in the middle and ending cutscenes.
Dummy File
A dummy file that exists on disc (ZZZDUMMY.BIN) says the following:
Move along, nothing to see here....
Guess there's nothing to see here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Twisted Metal series
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PlayStation | Twisted Metal • Twisted Metal 2 (Prototype) • Twisted Metal 4 (Prototypes) • Small Brawl (Prototypes) |
PlayStation 2 | Black |
PlayStation 3 | Twisted Metal |
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