I was pretty pessimistic how the game was going to turn out. I was fairly annoyed at a handful of gangs instead of unique characters, and I was bothered that Mr. Grimm went from a twisted POW cannibal to a generic thug (I don't mind that they made him black, to clarify, as that seems to be a really common, ignorant complaint). How is "oh no! My daddy died! Now I'm going to be a gang-banger!" as interesting as the stuff that happened to the Grimm in the TMB? Anyways... I'm getting off topic here.
After going through the demo and giving it a chance, I will say the gameplay hooked me, and I went and pre-paid for a copy. The controls take some getting used to, but aside from that it was fun. The graphics looked worse than I expected, but that was never a reason to play a Twisted Metal game. I had a really awesome moment. I was driving Darkside, and Crimson Fury and Reaper were driving towards each other in front of me from the left and right of the screen, respectively, guns blazing. I hit my special and killed them both right as they drove past one-another.
