I
know, I can’t just criticize this game without having played any of it. But I don’t understand what is great about
this video game. Does it have a
story? Is there an actual point to the
game other than just riding on cars or motorcycles and committing crimes or
killing other drivers?
Let’s
look at another combat car game, Jak X:
Combat Racing.
In
my opinion, even though Jak X was a
video game in a combat racing genre, at least Jak X had a story. Jak and
his buddies drink beverages that were poisoned without their knowing until it
was too late. In order to get the
antidote for the poison, they had to win race after race, and try to survive
all the while. Winning to get the
antidote is a very good motivation for the heroes’ racing. There is a ticking clock.
What
does Twisted Metal X do? It’s just pure combat and killing and
destroying. There is only a vague idea
of what happened to the world, and so the characters (if there even are
protagonists here) deal with it by combat driving. And who likes murderous clowns? I don’t.
I’m
sorry, I just don’t like video games where the only point to the gameplay is
destroying things and extinguishing lives.
Count in committing crimes. It’s
why I have absolutely no interest in playing any of the Grand Theft Auto video games.
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