'Twisted Metal' blasts into the 21st century

This is one of those games I have to pass on. Maybe if it's in the "for sale bin", that would be terrific.

Sitting in traffic on the way to work has led many a driver to wish his vehicle — like James Bond's heavily armed Aston Martin— could blast a path to freedom.

Video game designers David Jaffe and Scott Campbell decided to build a game on that primal feeling. Released for the original PlayStation in 1995, Twisted Metal put players behind the wheel of weaponized vehicles and spawned a series of million-selling sequels.

"The concept is universal," says Dan Hsu, editor in chief of GamesBeat on VentureBeat.com. "Who doesn't want to mount big weapons on cars and blow other people up?"

The franchise's first full-fledged new entry in a decade, Twisted Metal ($60, out today, for PS3, ages 17-up), amps the vehicular combat action up to high-definition.

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