Junkyard

Junkyard
Information
Loading Screen Name	Zorko Bros. Scrap & Salvage
Availability	Single Player Multiplayer
File Name	junkyard

Junkyard is the first level in Twisted Metal: Black. Located in a scrapyard in Midtown, it is a medium-sized arena, and the player has to defeat 7 enemies to advance. Upon completing the level, the player is prompted to choose between the Suburbs or Freeway arenas.

Description (Manual)

The Junkyard continues to function obliviously, despite the battle. Take caution of the car crushers that will take out unsuspecting victims. The ENV weapon involves the abandoned warplane. Use it and watch your opponents scramble for cover.

Info

This level features two car compactors: one located within a wall which crushes cars horizontally and one located towards the back of the arena which crushes cars vertically. The stage also features ramps made from debris. There is also a plane which circles the arena and can be shot down, and another broken plane which fires at the closest driver.

Music Tracks

On Battle

Duel

Ambience

Secrets

• Unlocking Warhawk's Rooftop: The Warhawk's Roof arena can be unlocked in the Junkyard arena during Story Mode. To unlock it, the player must destroy the pizza man statue located near the vertical car crusher. The debris left behind will create a ramp which the player can then use to jump onto the top of the crusher when it is lowered. When the crusher reaches the top, the player will see an icon floating in the air before the crusher. Drive off of the crusher and hit the icon, and the Warhawk's Roof arena will be unlocked.
• Unlocking Yellow Jacket: The car Yellow Jacket can also be unlocked in the Junkyard level. To unlock it, the player must destroy a plane circling the arena with missiles. The plane will crash behind one of the buildings, allowing the player to enter a hole caused by the impact. At the end of the tunnel the player enters, there is a control panel; destroy the control panel and Yellow Jacket will be unlocked.
• Unlocking Prison Ship: Destroy 15 opponents in Endurance mode.

Trivia

• When you pick up the cube that unlocks Warhawk's Rooftop, it simply says : "Warhawk unlocked." This is because in multiplayer mode, the Warhawk's Rooftop is simply called "Warhawk." Many people thought it would unlock the vehicle and not the level.
• If your timing is right, you can make the circling plane crash onto one or several opponents, instantly killing them and earning the "Jet Crash Fatalities" bonus.
• In the PAL version, the plane used to unlock Yellow Jacket is already crashed because of the censorship the European version of the game has gone through (thus making the 'Jet Fatality' bonus impossible to get).
• The name of the level is a reference to Randy Zorko, a designer who worked for Incog. Inc.
• There is a miniature version of this battleground which was removed in the final debut of the game. There were hardly any differences, except that the airplane no longer flew above, and the statue sporting green-and-white checker style, along with the ground, is slightly shrunken. However, there is a code that will enable the player to obtain the Mini Junkyard, as well as Warhawk's Rooftop in singleplayer mode.
• According to Dollface's dialogue, the pieces to her mask were salvaged from this location.

Gallery

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• Concept Art

Junkyard's destructable that creates a ramp to the top of the car compactor.

Junkyard's disaster. After crashing it creates a hole path to Yellow Jacket's unlockable.

Concept art of the Junkyard by Lee R. Wilson (December 1999).

Concept art of the Junkyard from the official TM:B website.