Amidst all the rumors and hearsay surrounding the Gerstmann controversy, David Jaffe brightens my day by announcing a "new" Twisted Metal game. Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition is more than simply a port of the PSP game that all of seven people played when it released two years ago. Instead, Jaffe hopes to make it something special:

"But then we started talking and thinking and wondering: what if we could make it so much more? What if we could just stuff the thing to the brim with bonus features and new levels and updated graphics and really give the Twisted Metal franchise a fantastic send-off on the PlayStation 2? And when we thought about it like that, we got really excited.

And so that became our mission, our goal. And while ya’ll will - as always - be the final judge, we feel we’ve succeeded."

Featuring four levels from the unreleased Twisted Metal: Black 2, along with updated graphics and a new level for the original Head-On and cool bonus features like a documentary and never-seen live-action end movies for the original Twisted Metal, Head-On: ETE sounds like it could be everything TM fans have been hoping for.

As a fan of the Twisted Metal series, I'm pretty happy. I haven't played a TM since Black, which I think is an underrated game, and since I know very few other people who own a PSP, let alone TM: Head-On, that's been a no-go as well. Hopefully this will fill the Twisted void in my soul come Spring.

photos up on Flickr

Cheers,
Paul