E3 Quick Impressions: Twisted Metal

You know it's a lot of pressure to play Twisted Metal with David Jaffe standing around watching everybody.  
 
We played a six-player death match, and it was very much a Twisted Metal game, except with beautiful graphics.  I played as the helicopter, which the demonstrator said immediately after I selected it was the hardest vehicle to operate.  The left and right analog sticks are used in conjunction with one another to steer and to gain or lose height, but for most of the match I didn't feel like the height was totally under my control.  You can cycle through different special weapons, as well as a machine gun, and most of the weapons are homing missles or some variation.  There is also a way to zoom in and fire a giant machine gun (like you're on a rail shooter level in an FPS) but it wasn't nearly as effective as the homing missles.  The helicopter's special move is dropping a magnet and using it to pick up a car (like Desert Strike!) but I never seemed to be able to injure anyone with it.  I lifted them up as high as I could and dropped them, but it didn't kill them.
 
Anyway.  It's Twisted Metal, and it's pretty fun.  I'm pretty terrible at multiplayer games, but I managed to get three kills, and my team won by three, so I felt OK about myself.  
 
 If you have any questions, comment and I will try to answer.