If you only watch one post-apocalyptic TV series adapted from a violent Sony PlayStation game … well, you should probably make it The Last of Us. The brooding HBO drama from last year added even more emotional heft to what was already an artful and compelling video game about hope and humanity in a benighted world. The ecstatic reviews and slew of award nominations proved, finally, that you could spin screen gold from gaming source material.
If The Last of Us was a lofty, soul-nourishing feast, fellow game adaptation Twisted Metal is more of a whoopee cushion: loud and obnoxious yet often hilarious. It screeches belatedly on to UK screens this week after debuting in the US last summer (where it made enough of an impact that a second season has been confirmed).
