Twisted Metal 4
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Developed_By:
Sony
Published_By:
Sony
Released On:
17 Nov 1999
Twisted Metal 4 is a racing game where the Twisted Metal tournament's boss, Calypso, has been overthrown by Sweet Tooth and his circus friends. They've taken over the tournament with more powerful vehicles, multiple battlegrounds, and a wide range of new drivers and returning legends like Thumper, Axel, Auger, Minion, and many more.
The prize for winning is still a wish granted by Sweet Tooth, but Calypso has joined the tournament as well. With Sweet Tooth at the helm, the stakes are higher than ever, and players must be ready to face off against new opponents and treacherous terrain.
eBay Product ID:
1273 (United States)
UPC-A:
711719456025 (United States)
ASIN:
B000034DC6 (United States)
Part #:
SCUS-94560 (USA)
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Sound Capabilities:
Dolby Surround
Additional Hardware Supported:
Multitap
Number of Players Supported:
1-4 Players
Input Device Features Supported:
Vibration
Controller Types Supported:
Analog Controller
Number of Offline Players via Multitap:
1-4 Players
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This is a vehicular combat game where players, as deranged motorists, engage in destructive battles within nightmarish, expansive levels designed by the new "Chief Clown of Operations," Sweet Tooth. The objective is to survive psychotic combat carnage by using missiles and other weapons to destroy opponents, with victory potentially granting the player's heart's desires.
Story
BOW DOWN TO DA CLOWN
Calypso, the former leader of Twisted Metal, has been overthrown by Sweet Tooth. As the new Chief Clown of Operations, Sweet Tooth has assembled a wicked posse to ensure his carnival freakshow reigns supreme.
Sweet Tooth is calling the shots and has designed expansive levels straight out of your worst nightmares. You'll romp around in his sicko bedroom, get dizzy in a multi-story maze, and skid through the center ring of his carnival. If you survive the psychotic combat carnage, Sweet Tooth will grant your heart's desires.
Calypso, now a hotheaded contestant, roams the streets armed with a large nuclear missile launcher. He joins a violence-stoked meter maid, a dysfunctional family in a station wagon, and a noxious exterminator looking for roaches to squash. These are just a few of the deranged motorists who believe the best defense is a good offensive missile attack.
If you think you can hack it, load up your missiles and make wreckage to your twisted heart's content.
GAME SCREEN
ENEMY TARGETED
Current enemy locked on for attack.
RADAR
You are at the center of the scope where the green lines cross. Dots on the scope are enemies. Flashing dots are enemies on roads above or below you.
Whatever is at the top of the screen is in front of you. The name of the targeted enemy appears over the top of the scope. The number of enemies remaining appears at the top right of the scope.
LIVES
Begin a Tournament with five lives. Lives remaining is at the lower left corner of the screen. You cannot see lives remaining in Deathmatch mode.
HEALTH BAR
Shows how much health you have remaining. Run out of health and you're a goner. Increase health by picking up health icons.
ENEMIES REMAINING
Number of enemies left to destroy before victory.
WEAPONS HUD
Shows your selected weapon.
COMBO ATTACK ENERGY BAR
Watch this meter so you'll know when you have the juice for Combo Attacks.
ROUNDS REMAINING
Shows how many remaining rounds of the selected weapon you have on board.
TURBO
Shows the amount of turbo power remaining. Turbo icons recharge your turbo. Don't be shooting off your turbo all the time because fuel is in limited supply.
Game Views
There's more than one way to view the destruction. Game views are Close, Medium and Far.
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Press the SELECT button during the game or...
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Press START to open the Pause Menu, then select CAMERA. Press the D-Pad up/down to change the view.
To change the split screen configuration in a two-player game:
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Pause the game, highlight SPLIT and press the D-Pad left/right to see the variations.
TWISTED WORLDS
Each level has a secret weapon. If you can find it, you rule!
Construction Yard
Glowing green sludge lights this greasy warzone as you careen through stacks of smashed cars and highly toxic environmental filth. Bask in the warmth of Sweet Tooth's flaming sludge pit as some poor sucker falls in. The centerpiece of this automotive nightmare is the crane. Control it and helpless screams will be music to your ears.
Neon City
A hover train hurtles through this eerie concrete and neon world, then vanishes into a subway. Terrorize the midnight streets and cruise the rooftops looking for hidden routes. The train stays on schedule, which might help you figure out how to destroy it. Accidents can happen, especially since this is Sweet Tooth's favorite night spot.
Road Rage
This is what it's all about... Sweet Tooth's Freeway! Not only that you have missiles. But there's one problem. You're not the only highway wacko armed to the off-ramp with heavy artillery. Keep moving if you wish to survive. Secret areas await the explorative contestant.
Sweet Tooth's Bedroom
Sweet Tooth's hidey hole is surprisingly neat for a psycho clown if you overlook the old pizza boxes, bad graffiti and severed doll heads. He likes to sleep with explosives and gasoline close by and even has a nightlight. Maybe he's afraid of monsters. The trick here, besides not getting cooked alive in your car, is to get off the floor for some exploration.
Amazonia 3000 B.C.
It's Sweet Tooth's temple of terror. Raid four ancient and sacred areas where the spirits don't like homicidal rowdies with loud cars and machine guns. They show their displeasure by zapping the unholy with lightning bolts. Each mystical area has a secret that unlocks special powers. Be careful or you could end up trapped in a tomb with a view.
The Oil Rig
Cruise the rig while fighting for your life. Sheer drops guarantee instant death while a mysterious helicopter cruises overhead. Move through this world ferreting out hidden transporters or rolling up ramps. If you don't get drilled first, you might go for the gusher.
The Maze
You'll be amazed how tough it is to get to the top in this game. Stalk the endless mossy walls blowing away anything that rolls while searching for ways out. This maze is vertical as well as horizontal and switching levels is no breeze.
The Carnival
Remember those wonderful summer nights when the carnival was in town? The air was filled with the smell of cotton candy and you giggled your way through the Tunnel of Love. Well our little carnival nightmare is not like that! You'll be watching in disbelief as someone tears through
How to Play
GETTING STARTED
Set up your PlayStation® game console according to its instruction manual. Ensure the power is off before inserting or removing a compact disc.
Insert the Twisted Metal 4 disc and close the disc cover. Insert one or two game controllers and turn on the PlayStation game console. Follow the on-screen instructions to start a game.
Three or four player games require the use of a Multi-Tap.
Memory Card
The MEMORY CARD can be used to save game configurations, Tournament progress, and created cars. Insert the MEMORY CARD in Card Slot 1 (Card Slot 2 is not used).
To save your game configuration:
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Select OPTIONS on the Main Menu and make the game modifications you want.
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Save your changes to a MEMORY CARD when prompted.
To load a game configuration:
Insert your MEMORY CARD before turning on the PlayStation game console, and your configuration loads automatically when you start the game. If you insert your MEMORY CARD after starting up the game (while still in the setup menus), Twisted Metal 4 will prompt you to load your configuration.
To save your created vehicle:
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Select CREATE A CAR on the Vehicle Selection screen and make your car.
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Save your created car when prompted.
To load a created car:
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Select LOAD CAR on the Vehicle Selection screen and load your created car.
To save your progress in a Tournament:
As you complete each Tournament level, you will be prompted to save your progress.
To load a Tournament:
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Choose LOAD GAME on the Main Menu.
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Choose the saved Tournament you want to continue playing from the list of saved games.
SETTING UP THE GAME
At the main menu screen, press the D-Pad up/down to highlight an item and press the button to open it. Press the D-Pad left/right to change a setting and press the button to confirm the selection.
NEW GAME
Choose Game Type
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Tournament—Try to make it through all eight battlezones.
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Deathmatch—Single battles in the world of your choice.
Number of Players
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One to four players attempt vehicular assassinations against each other and everyone else.
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Three or four player games require a Multi-Tap.
OPTIONS
Audio
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Sound FX Volume - Press the D-Pad left/right to adjust volume.
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Music Volume - Press the D-Pad left/right to adjust music volume.
Video
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Dithered Display - Dithering helps display color transitions better. A non-dithered display shows sharper detail. Select YES/NO.
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Refresh Priority - Choose GRAPHICS to emphasize graphics over gameplay speed. Choose GAMEPLAY to emphasize gameplay speed over graphics.
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Adjust Screen - Press the D-Pad left/right and up/down to center the screen display.
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Password - Enter password here to unlock secret areas of the game.
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Credits - Meet the body and fender folks at 989 Studios.
LOAD GAME
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Select a saved game at MEMORY CARD screen.
TOURNAMENT
You'll fight through eight deadly battlegrounds, advancing to each new level only after wiping out all opponents. Enemy vehicles are chosen automatically.
As you progress through each level, the bad guys get tougher to beat. You begin the Tournament with five lives. When you run out of lives, you lose and the Tournament is over.
If you make it through all eight levels, you win and are the champion of our freak-filled, twisted tournament. Tournament play is a one or two player game.
You can save your game during Tournament play when you complete a level.
After selecting your vehicle, select YES or NO for the following Tournament options:
CPU Ally
Drive into battle with a computer-generated friend of your choice who will blow away anything that moves except you. It's great having someone to take your bullet, but when you win, you won't see the ending movies.
If you say YES to CPU Ally, press the D-Pad left/right to review potential battle partners and press the button to confirm your choice.
Pool Lives
If you select a CPU Ally, you can combine the total lives, starting the Tournament with ten lives between you. Each time someone gets creamed, one life is eliminated.
DEATHMATCH
Deathmatch mode lets one to four players wreak automotive devastation in the world of their choice. You can pick exactly who and how many opponents you want to fight. You can also make the match one quick showdown or an infinite number of rematches.
Check out the following options for making the Deathmatch your own wacked out world.
1. Press the D-Pad up/down to highlight a category.
2. Press the D-Pad left/right to change the setting.
3. Press the ▲ button to close the screen.
World
Select the world where you want to get crazy. Review the "Twisted Worlds" section to get help with your travel plans.
CPU Cars
Select how many opponents you want. Seven is the maximum.
Options
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Press ■ button to enter Deathmatch Options.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL
Choose Easy level for the easiest gameplay, Medium for more difficult gameplay, and Hard for maniacal, no holds barred war.
CHOSEN WORLD REPEATS/ADVANCES
Play one world over and over or move each Deathmatch to a new location after you win.
CPU CARS CHOSEN
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Random or By Player - Select RANDOM if you want cars randomly chosen. Select BY PLAYER
Controls
START button
Start/Pause
D-Pad left/right
Steer
* button
Accelerate
* button (tap twice)
Turbo
▲ button
Reverse
button
Hand brake/Quick turn
D-Pad down and in steered direction
Hand brake/Quick turn
L2 button
Fire active weapon
R2 button
Fire machine guns
L1 or R1
Switch weapons
SELECT button
Change camera view
• button
Rear view
Left stick left/right
Steer
Right stick up or Left stick up
Accelerate
Right stick back
Reverse
Right stick in
Turbo
Left stick in
Rear view
Left stick back or Right stick right/left
Hand brake/Quick turn
D-Pad left/right and up/down
Select a battle cry (when highlighting BATTLE CRY)
D-Pad
Highlight a character (when entering name)
D-Pad up/down
Highlight a function (in Controller Configuration)
R1 button
Return to default controls
Items & Weapons
Fire Missile
Partial homing ability and a moderate damage rating make this a good all around missile.
Power Missile
The most powerful missile in the game. This causes major damage to enemy vehicles and fighting environments. Aim this weapon carefully because it's not a homing missile.
Ricochet Bomb
When released, these bombs bounce around in the environment until they strike a vehicle (including yours!). The longer the bomb is in play, the more powerful it becomes.
Lightning
Be sure you're far away or the results can be shocking!
Homing Missile
Capable of zeroing in on an enemy vehicle from a distance.
Napalm
An enemy struck by napalm instantly catches fire. But watch out! Burning cars can ignite other cars and objects they touch.
Remote Bomb
The most powerful of all weapon pick-ups, remote bombs explode when you detonate them. Great for laying an explosive trap!
Freeze Remote
This chiller is the weapon of choice for catching that nasty little opponent who will not stay still long enough for you to torment. Plant one of these nearby and detonates. Anything within its range will instantly freeze, allowing you to do as you please.
Proximity Mine
Just drop this one and the next poor sucker who drives by is getting destroyed. When the light starts blinking, it's armed. Chain proximity mines together to increase the kill radius.
Rain Missile
Explodes with a rainstorm of fireballs that ignite in the air for a wide damage radius.
Speed Missile
Want fast relief from attack? Three out of four Twisted Metal heads agree; Speed Missile is the choice when you absolutely have to blow something up fast. This is not a homing weapon. Hold down the L2 button for automatic action.
Mortar
An incredibly powerful homing explosive with an enormous blast radius that incinerates enemies near and far.
Tips & Maps
M.I.R.V.
One missile delivers multiple warheads. Good for bombarding an opponent, but there is no equal for firing around corners.
Rain 2 Missile
This missile releases a series of napalms to deliver a flurry of fire on your opponents.
Health
These are essential to recover from battle damage. They come in two flavors, full and partial, designated by a complete square icon with or without a blue border.
Turbo
Charges up your Turbo Booster (button tapped twice). Look for these when you see the 'Rant of turbo energy' notice.
Special Weapon Attacks
Each vehicle features a Special Attack that is more lethal than standard weaponry, powered up by finding the Special icon.
Combo Attacks
These attacks don't depend on picking up ammo but do depend on your stored energy and affect vehicle performance and maneuverability.
Freeze burst
D-Pad left-right-up-up
Rear freeze
D-pad left-right-down-down
Massive attack
.D-pad up-down-up-down-up
Rear massive attack
D-pad up-down-up-down-down
Rear attack
D-pad right-left-down-down
High jump
.D-pad up-up-left
Shield
D-pad up-up-right
Invisibility
D-pad down-down-up-up
Hyperspace
D-pad up-up-down-down
THE ACID CESSPOOLS
Located in various levels, these glowing green toxic pools can be used to damage opponents by launching a fiery napalm blast into them.
PROXIMITY MINES (CHAIN REACTION)
These mines automatically detonate when a victim comes within range, or can be shot with a missile for a manual detonation, and multiple mines can create a chain reaction.
EXPLODING BARRELS
These barrels are carefully placed in levels and will explode if touched or shot, causing damage to nearby vehicles.
METER MAID
Driver of a 3-wheeled meter car, Zanita Corbett's special weapon is the health sucking energy beam.
ORBITAL
Driver of a sleek sports car, Orbital's special weapon is a Teleorb.
Enemies & Characters
CAPTAIN GRIMM
Judging from Captain Grimm's facial complexion, the only thing that's alive about him is the parrot on his shoulder. No one knows what powers the pirate ship car, but a big bore cannon sits where the engine should be and fires lit cannon balls.
GOGGLE EYES
Traumatized as a child when he witnessed a giant cockroach win a pie-eating contest, Goggle Eyes swore to rid the earth of disgusting crawling vermin. He joined the Twisted Metal Tournament as an attempt to socialize and shoot new friends, and his special weapon is Green Acid.
CALYPSO
The legendary Calypso is in exile, tossed off the Twisted Metal throne by a circus hack. He drives a surplus Soviet mobile missile launcher that's extremely deadly and believes the right to bear arms includes tactical nuclear weapons.
PIZZA BOY
Conner Nazang is the richest pizza delivery boy in the U.S. because he extorts huge tips, parking on the lawn with his hood-mounted heavy machine guns pointed at the front door. His special weapon is a duo of pizza cutters.
QUATRO
Quatro is the best bike cop in intergalactic law enforcement, here to arrest Sweet Tooth and collect a hefty bounty. His hover bike has killer acceleration and an incredibly tight turning radius, and his powerful Microwave Shockwave knocks opponents senseless.
GENERAL WARTHOG
General Warthog left his brains in the trenches when he was a 19-year-old WWI private, but military discipline keeps him going. His tank is a marvel of 80-year-old military technology, and its modernized ion blaster can blow holes through any vehicle the enemy forces have.
MICRO BLAST
Micro Blast is a megalomaniac bent on world domination, who has hatched an amazing nuclear assault vehicle that looks like a toy car. Its rapid fire gatlinger can slice through anything, and Sweet Tooth has offered him a proposition: Win the contest and you will rule the world.
TRASHMAN
Trashman digs trash and he's on a mission to turn the world into one big gigantic landfill, hating anything that's pretty and anybody who takes a bath. His special weapon is a pair of huge spikes sticking out of the front of the truck, which almost always wins a head-on crash and can impale an opponent's vehicle while firing hundreds of machine gun bullets into it.
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