I absolutely love TM2. Here's some tips.

A shielded Twister's Tornado Spin and Remote Bombs are ferocious. Alternatively, Napalm and special meter mines work as well. That's if you don't want to waste those nasty remote bombs. HINT...remote bombs do enhanced damage to airborne and sloped vehicles

Ice attack then fire a few of Roadkill's Boomerang Missiles are guaranteed to devastate. They do much more damage on the return trip.

Of course...those nasty methods are just not as fun as my favorite way to destroy enemy vehicles.
Turbo Ramming with Machine Guns and Power Missiles as Hammerhead. With or without Monster Crush. Ice attack, guns, power missle, then turboed monster crush is like 40-80% on the vehicles. Add another power missle and MC and it's GG for the 2 armor vehicles. See where this is going? Even heavier armor cannot withstand the repeated rams. You can do this without the special even. It's quite satisfying. Just make sure you ram other Hammerhead, Axel, and Minion directly from the side or you'll be trading thier full power rams for yours.

Here's some facts regarding the 2 types of rams and their varying power related to speed. There are regular rams(max driving speed and max turbo speed). Then there are the Superior (MDS and MTS as well) "Drive Over" rams that can cause a push back/stun effect. You can cause a low damage "crushing effect" while stopped on top of another vehicle. It's easy to test this with ice in some cases. It's generally better to just keep ramming instead of crushing though.

Hammerhead and Mr. Slam have the strongest regular rams in the game. Minion and Axel have very powerful normal drive over rams. Which basically means they are free Hammerhead specials. Hammerhead's special though is identical to Minion's drive over ram. So the both of them have the strongest rams in the game. Axel's drive over, on the other hand, is slightly weaker but still devastating. Especially when combined with "AXEL POWERR!!"

Another thing. If you do the rams just right, you lose no health from the collisions. This is especially important against heavy armor vehicles, Axel, Hammerhead, and Minion. If you do it wrong, you'll just eat tons of unnecessary damage.

You will never slide, skid, or spin out if you master the physics of each vehicle. This includes tight turns. Some vehicles can drive donuts at full speed using tight turn.

Lastly, Grasshopper and her special, are just not very good. Especially vs Axel, Hammerhead, and Minion. You'll drive under their wheels for extreme amounts of damage.

Have fun.
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You did quite well...but you need more training to defeat me.

Does Twisted Metal 2 still hold up IYO?

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