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You can drive in a vehicle (drive and vehicle being very liberal descriptions here) and go around shooting other drivers (players and/or NPC's) in a arena like setting.

An example that comes to mind is Extreme-G 2 I believe... from the old N64 days. It had a multiplayer mode where you could do this. Is there a more recent game that's like that?
 
Unreal Tournament (2004 at least) has something kind of like that?
 
Ahh all these games are so old... did this idea / concept just go down the drain as a 'non money maker' thing? :(
 
Stimz said:
Vigilante 8 :p
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My god I wasted so much of my young life on that and 2nd offense....

If you want a really old school PC game go with Death Rally. They just re-released it as freeware.
 
The only thing recently I know about would be Death Track: Ressurection (on steam for $20), although I didn't really care for it and does not beat Twisted Metal by a long shot.

If you buy a PS2 you could play:
Twisted Metal: Black
Twisted Metal: Head-on (also on PSP)
X-treme G III
XGRA
Road Kill
Jak X: Combat Racing

Always have to recommend Rogue Trip Vacation 2012, for the PS1. From the Creator of Twisted Metal one and II.

EDIT: just found a demo of Dooms Rail Demo which says its similar to TM series. Dunno as I have not tried it yet.
 
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Einhanderkiller said:
If you don't mind multiplayer-only, D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up is awesome.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17530/
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Oh sweet jesus! That looks perfect... downloading now :D

EDIT: Fired it up and it looks great... except for the fact that literally no one plays this and there's no bots. It's made by the zombie driver guys and a quick browse of the forums say this project doesn't end here... and that they have plans for it in the future. Sigh, such potential.
 
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Einhanderkiller said:
If you don't mind multiplayer-only, D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up is awesome.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17530/
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Here is a stupid question. It says requires HL2 or a list of qualifying games. Now it doesn't say it needs to be installed though! I own Orange Box but don't have any of the HL2's installed ATM. Will the game still work if I just own them and have not installed them?

This looks cool, next free day is probably Thursday to try this out. Maybe someone will be online :)
 
Wikipedia has a whole list of "vehicular combat" games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_combat

I think the reason there aren't many recent games like Twisted Metal and such is because the kart racer genre took over. I don't think it's so much of a "non money maker" thing, as kart racers with combat/battle modes are just the current breadwinners.
 
I think the newest of this type of game would be the "Full Auto" series.

Interestingly, the first is a 360 exclusive and the second is a PS3 exclusive. Well, there's a PSP version, too.
 
RogueTrip said:
Here is a stupid question. It says requires HL2 or a list of qualifying games. Now it doesn't say it needs to be installed though! I own Orange Box but don't have any of the HL2's installed ATM. Will the game still work if I just own them and have not installed them?

This looks cool, next free day is probably Thursday to try this out. Maybe someone will be online :)
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It's a Source mod, so when you download the game it will also download any of the necessary Source engine components required to run the game.
 
RogueTrip said:
Here is a stupid question. It says requires HL2 or a list of qualifying games. Now it doesn't say it needs to be installed though! I own Orange Box but don't have any of the HL2's installed ATM. Will the game still work if I just own them and have not installed them?

This looks cool, next free day is probably Thursday to try this out. Maybe someone will be online :)
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You have to install Source SDK Base - Orange Box. It's in your 'Tools' tab in Steam.
 
Yeah Twisted Metal is the closest thing I can think of to arena based play with them mechanics, very old now though!
 
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