People aren't going to purchase a PS4 or subscribe to PS Plus for an arena shooter, and especially not one that is fee-to-play and hasn't done well with critics (thus far). It seems like this is yet another blunder of a Sony-exclusive title. I respect the team's ambitions and how they appear to be pretty active in terms of support though.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/08/drawn-to-death-review

The faults in this game seem to be similar to those in another game I purchased about five years ago.

This game designer could have learned from the other game designer, and a better game would have been created.

Designers from these games should learn to communicate with each other more off-feh-ten....communication is so important.

So I've been super inactive lately because of college, but I almost had the chance to intern for Jaffe and work on this game. I didn't get past the second interview for whatever reason. You know what, I'm glad I didn't. This game took over 4 years to develop, and it is absolute trash. I have really lost respect for Jaffe as a game industry vet after this.

So my main complaints after a few games are as follows.

-The humor is awful, like I get being edgy and raunchy can be great, but this game is borderline autistic. It has Jaffe's fucking smug attitude all over it. He can be a really humble guy, but he was let off the chain with this, and it showed. I don't know what is worse, this game, or his super liberal rants on Twitter .

-The weapons and characters are unbalanced as all hell. Some weapons are just unusable, while others wipe the floor. The FU47 was a pea shooter, while the RPG is amazing.

-The levels are pathetically small, and the match sizes are a joke. Want to know why they made the game with smaller lobbies in mind? Because they knew the game would be dead in a month, it has nothing to do with homaging back to Unreal tournament or any other older arena shooters.

-The hold to skip is fucking infuriating. Jesus fuck, that frog can suck my balls. It never shut up.

-The notebook as a menu thing makes everything super tiny. I have a 42 inch tv, I shouldn't have to sit three feet away from it to see what the fuck I'm reading.

Now, there was some okay things about the game.

- I did enjoy the use of the Unity engine. They showed that you could make a professional looking game with it. The presentation is nice, besides the tiny menus and stupid main select screen that gives no hint as to what I'm selecting. Just give everything normal names for the love of god.

- The art is cool. I do like the art style. If everything wasn't so edgy, it would really be something to marvel at.

- I'm a sucker for a nice arena shooters, and as that one review said, the skeleton of one is here somewhere. It needs some refinement

- I like the character based fighting, and reminds a lot of Twisted Metal and Overwatch in a way, if they had an inbred child...

-The animations don't really bother me, as I think I play retro games too much. I'm in it for the gameplay. I really don't give a shit about detailed animations. This isn't Uncharted. People need to stop circle jerking graphics so much.

- It was free, and is another game my friends and I can play together. Although, they fucked that up too. I was playing an unranked with my friend, and we were wrecking the other team, and half way through the game it switches us to other teams. It did that like 3 times. That can't be a feature of the game, it has to be a fuck-up on their part. I hope to god it isn't a feature, because it makes the party system irrelevant. I'd also like to say that you can't do a public death-match with more than two people. Once again, that is retarded. What are we going to do, boost? Are the three of us going to gang up on the one random player in the lobby? That is just some bad game design right there. Drives me up the wall.

You know what guys? I'm glad Twisted Metal is dead. I don't want Jaffe putting his fingers on the franchise anymore. He has lost his touch, or maybe he never had it. I really think the people behind making TM1, 2, and Black so good were his team. Head-On proved we didn't need him, and while that game has its flaws, it is not a solid rendition. Hell, Small Brawl is my favorite, and Jaffe didn't even touch that game to my knowledge. Let's see Scott and some real fans of Twisted Metal get a chance at making a new AAA title for PS4. I would still love a TM1/2 Remaster. The modding thread is already at it!

I'm sure I'm leaving something out of this long winded rant, but that's my feeling this title.

I agree,

Would love to see a new TM from the ESP guys.
I think it's definitely not unlikely since they have been away from it for a while and might be itching to get back in the saddle...

For those who play this game, Jaffe shared this on Twitter recently.



Thumpy wrote on 04/18/17 at 10:33:35:

Man, I hope so!
And I'm not meaning to get too off topic here, but I have also been hoping for a sequel to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. I personally had fun with it, and Sweet Tooth was my main in it.

@Mosh
To be fair, PS All-Stars used current incarnations for most, if not nearly all of the roster. Some of them were even based on upcoming games, like Raiden in his Metal Gear Rising body, which officially released the following year after All-Stars did. As for TMX, the game does still have a fan base, however small, and it is the most recent game, so it's logical that they would use the most familiar version to the (then current) public.

It would be nice to see more of the classic games represented too. I thought it was cool that Sweet Tooth had a tuxedo costume to resemble his more classic appearances. Even the freeze missile item you can pick up is clearly based on the TM1 version, being that it's a physical missile rather than a ball of ice energy when you pick it up. Some throwbacks to the classic games, even more recent ones like Head-On, might be nice to see.

Something good could come out of this though. However unlikely given the presumably small community of DtD, perhaps Sony can use customer purchases of the TM skin pack to gauge some degree of interest in a new TM...
Y'know, since fan demand doesn't seem to be enough for them. Haha

Can you imagine if 'Drawn to Death' was nothing more than a deliberate joke.

Perhaps Jaffe was really working on a new 'Twisted Metal' all this time and used this 'Drawn to Death' as a distraction to keep everyone from thinking he was working on a new 'Twisted Metal' game.

Sounds sweet and its something I think he would do, he even flat out lied about the last Twisted Metal game and said he was not even working on it.

Also this 'Drawn to Death' might be an acknowledgment of the mistakes that were made with TMX, and that they won't be present in the next TM.

My thoughts are likely untrue but it would be so nice if it was.

"Come on Dave, tell us its true!"

As much as I do like the  game I ended up getting distracted by other things