Game:

Twisted Metal: Black (2001)

Duration: 1:02:08

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Apart from a few levels that were clearly designed specifically for 1v1 and 4-player games in general, there's really no reason why the levels that are exclusive to multiplayer mode couldn't be accessed in single player. They have plenty of room to work with and the "mini" versions of some levels, like Suburbs and Downtown, aren't that much cut down compared to the "full" versions. Thankfully, there's gameshark/codebreaker codes to allow full access to all the multiplayer exclusive levels in single player Challenge/Endurance modes, including a mini-version of Junkyard that's not accessible normally in the game, single or multiplayer. Though really, I just wanted to play Power Plant (my favorite level from TMB) and am VERY happy that these codes allow for that.

Since these levels were only designed for multiplayer and weren't intended for single player, the AI pathing is buggy on some levels. Sewers is the most obvious example, as you'll see me destroy 2 cars that ended up stuck driving into a wall and stay there the entire time. That being said, it wasn't as though fighting the AI was a piece of cake, and these Challenge mode matches were all done on Medium difficulty. Stuff like Dogpound and Elevators might as well have been Drive-In Movie v2 with how high pressure the games were.

A few notes:

#1 Warhawk's Rooftop is accessible, but I guess the code only understands loading the "single player" version of the level as the Warhawk boss fight. So Warhawk's Rooftop can't really be played in single player as it doesn't let you select enemies for it - I assume that it can't load an enemy AI that isn't Warhawk.

#2 Mini-Junkyard is partially buggy and froze on me a few times. It's why I decided to use Minion to speed up destroying the enemies as opposed to Roadkill, who I use on all the other levels. I speed up one segment near the end as I somehow missed Crazy 8's AI getting stuck in the corner and thought he was glitched into the map boundaries.

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