Twisted Metal: Lost is an extra feature in Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition. This game is loosely based on the beta version of the unfinished and cancelled sequel to Twisted Metal: Black, named Twisted Metal: Harbor City.
The game has no ending movies, but has two additional vehicles which did not appear in Black, 12-Pak and a special enhanced version of Sweet Tooth, Gold Tooth. It also includes 4 new stages, which are Suburban Terror, Stadium Slaughter, Death Port and Carnival of Darkness.
The story given as to why the game had never been released in full was because most of the development team had died in a plane crash, but this was merely a urban legend created by David Jaffe (who did not work in Harbor City) to give the game a more "mysterious air".[1] Chad Liddell, one of the Harbor City developers would later respond to this story, saying that the former developers are all alive and kicking at Disney and we are still making games.[2]
Aside from the usual driving levels, there was also a 3D platformer element to it where you could control Needles that was also available to play where you could pick up information about the cancelled title, including concept artwork.
Story[]
This version of the game has no story. You only select a vehicle and play through three levels until the game is beaten. There are no endings.
Contestants[]
Most of the contestants and vehicles are reused from Black with bios made for the Lost version specifically. They likely were not intended for Harbor City. In total there are 16 playable vehicles; two of them being unlockable.
Returning Contestants[]
| Vehicle | Driver(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Roadkill | John Doe | A Clone of the original John Doe, he wants to bring down the Twisted Metal contest. |
| Crazy 8 | No Face | Has been trying to rebuild his face for 8 years, so his baby daughter doesn't burst into tears when he smiles at her. |
| Mr. Grimm | Mr. Grimm | Mr. Grimm has started to think he may be the Grim Reaper himself, he now searches the streets for more human flesh. |
| Shadow | Raven | Now a hero of Midtown, she wants to get rid of the killers that roam the city. |
| Brimstone | Preacher | Back as a ghost after being rejected from heaven and hell, he roams the Earth in search of those who wronged him. |
| Axel | Axel | Still feeling guilt over his wife's death, he chooses to stay strapped to his machine. |
| Darkside | Dollface | Choosing to stay locked in her doll mask, it begins to crush her head as she grows older. |
| Outlaw | Agent Stone | After winning the previous contest, Agent Stone is stuck in a time loop that ends in his death. |
| Sweet Tooth | Needles Kane | Needles continues to try and search for his next victim, meanwhile his brother wants to stop him. |
| Yellow Jacket | Charlie Kane and Son | Wants to track down Sweet Tooth, kill him, and then kill themselves to end the Kane bloodline. |
| Junkyard Dog | Billy Ray Stillwell | Wants to outdo Sweet Tooth as Midtown's most notorious serial killer. |
| Spectre | Bloody Mary | Has lost all hold on reality. Secretly, she wishes to be killed in the contest, and have her suffering come to an end. |
| Manslaughter | Black | Still wants to kill Calypso. |
| Warthog | Cage | After a battle with Sweet Tooth, now Cage is only a torso and a head. |
Unlockable Contestants[]
| Vehicle | Driver(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Pak | Severed Sam | His body decapitated, he wants to find the crazed fan who lept from the stands on the day of the accident and stole his head. |
| Gold Tooth | Needles Kane | Provided to Needles by a mysterious benefactor. |
Levels[]
David Jaffe used photoshop to guess how to make the levels from Harbor City "play great" in his eyes, and told to the rest of the team in Utah to modify the levels with his guesses. The results were stripped down and / or amalgamations of levels from the cancelled game.[3]
- Suburban Terror - reduced version of the Suburbs level.
- Stadium Slaughter - reduced version of the Stadium level.
- Carnival of Darkness - stripped down version of the Scenter level.
- Death Port - unlockable; uses ships from the Docks level.
- City of the Dead - unused level; can only be played via hacking, buggy but functional; amalgamation of the Ghetto and Downtown levels.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The music themes that play in each level are actually the themes from Twisted Metal Black slightly sped up.
- Defeated combatants no longer scream and run ablaze when eliminated. This is something that was removed in the Lost version, as they do still appear in the Harbor City builds.
- In some of the levels from Lost, there are highways featured in them, although they were made unaccessable. This is because a planned feature in Harbor City was to have a connected world via a highway system. Making the game as one whole for the player to explore.
- There are actually five levels in this version, but only four of them are playable. The fifth level is known as "City of the Dead" and is unplayable due to some textures unapplied, some interactive elements unstable, and the spawning points not being one for each vehicle. It was the only level that contained a machine gun upgrade pickup, plus the ability to drive on the broken freeways, however they had invisible barriers, keeping the player inside the map. There is a code[1] that will "force" City of the Dead to be the only playable battleground, whether it be in Twisted Metal: Lost or Twisted Metal: Head-On.