A shockingly funny and sick car combat game!

User Rating: 8.5 | Blood Drive PS3
By goodnews13 | Review Date:
If you're like me, you love Twisted Metal. I've been so desperate for a current gen version that I've done it all...bought TM 1 on Playstation classics, played TM Black bacward compatible, bought Split Second, Blur, downloaded Vigilante 8 on XBL..but nothing that really came close. So I get wind of Blood Drive for the 360 and PS3 about a month ago and my first thought was "where did this come from?" I follow games pretty closely and I had never even heard of it. It released last week and I've had 4 or 5 hours to play through it, and have noticed that it's so "hush hush" that I haven't even been able to find a review of it. So for myslef and my other curious, TM loving brethren, I took the risk and shelled out $50 for it at Gamestop yesterday. Here's the quick bullet point review:

PROS:

* If you're looking for Twisted Metal, THIS IS IT. Different cars with different special weapons and shared pick up weapons. Different characters with end movies when you beat the career mode with them. A sick sense of humor.

* It doesn't move the genre forwad per se (like hopefully TM PS3 will) but it does add a few new cool wrinkles...mainly zombies. They add some spice to the game play and game modes. In additon to the usual TM deathmatch, there also modes that tasks you with killing the most zombies, checkpoint races, and "king of the skull" which awards the person that holds a skull the longest with the win. All with weapons. And zombies.

*Good (not great) graphics. Great handling on the cars and some AWESOME weapons.

CONS:

*The framerate can get really ugly at times (with tons of zombies and cars on the screen) but doesn't ruin the experience. You can only play with 4 people online (perhaps if they gave us the choice to eliminate the zombies via DLC they could increase the player count) and you can't choose modes individually(although it is nice that they're mixed up).

So, the bottom line? If you love Twisted Metal, you'll love Blood Drive. Admittedly, it's not revolutionary, but it's got all the elements you love and brings the undead into the picture with hilarious results.

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