I'm playing the new Twisted Metal game. Here, listen to this. It's important.
Right then. Twisted Metal. What is there to say, really? It's 100% certifiable excellentry. I mean, it was made by Santa Monica Studio, who are those dumb turds who made God Of War. Like GoW, it's
extremely fun, but anything story-related was clearly written by a 12 year old. It is absolutely nonstop dumb fun. It tries really hard to be taken seriously (For example: Sweet Tooth
no longer wishes to have all the candy any more, now he's a serial killer looking for his daughter so he can kill her??????) The controls take precisely 5 minutes to get used to and work fuckin' amazingly for combat and racing. The variety of cars is great. I mean, there's genuine variety in it and every car plays a little differently. The Rubber Banding (enemy cars sticking nearby for races/combat) is well measured and keeps combat from being too busy. I honestly can't recommend it enough. If you like good, solid fun pick up Twisted Metal. It's the gaming equivalent to cheese bread. It does everything it needs to plus you get some fucking cheese.
The only thing I'd change is a music selector. I want to listen to Dragula and nothing butt, but the music is randomly chosen each level and the only alternative is using any music I have saved on the PS3, which is none.
Skyrim is also excellent, but you already know that. After moving past my cynicism regarding its popularity I realized that Bethesda just did a damn good job. Really, Skyrim's just an A+.