Twisted Metal Grimm Walkthrough Part 6: Dead Man's Crossing

Just as with Sweet Tooth’s campaign, this sixth battle will consist of a boss battle, and will lead to the ending cinematic. This time you’ll be up against even harsher enemies that the Brothers Grimm, though, as a massive mechanized Dollface will attack you, along with a bunch of the crazed model’s followers. If that’s not enough, note that you will only be able to choose one vehicle to tackle this event with, as there will be no garage anywhere on the level. Choose wisely. You will want something with good defense since switching to another vehicle won’t be an option. Outlaw is a solid choice.

The massive Dollface mech, called the Iron Maiden, will be your primary opponent during this event. It has a giant cannon built into its hand, which will shoot three fireballs at you in a row. It also sports laser-guided missiles in its palms, and drones in the shape of doll heads that will swarm you and render auto-targeting weapons almost useless until destroyed. Finally, the boss is obviously very heavily armored, meaning that this battle will be all but pointless to take on in a fashion similar to your pervious efforts. Standard weapons are of essentially no use against the Iron Maiden.

An entourage of Dollface followers will hound you around the level as you try to destroy the boss. They will function basically in the same way as normal competitors, meaning that they’ll seek out power-ups and hunt you down attempting to destroy you. Take them out as you see fit, but don’t spend too much time or thought on destroying them, as it would be a pointless battle. You ultimate objective here is the death of the Iron Maiden, and ignoring the limousines that will swarm you like so many hungry flies will propel you towards you objective that much faster.

That objective is a nuclear missile located in the desert clearing, in the large, flaming, thrashing machine. In order to activate the missile, you will have to find the enemy faction’s leader, destroy her car, run her over, and deliver her to the missile launcher. Basically, this is a little game of Nuke, one of the most involved multiplayer modes in the game.

As the enemy limos swarm you, flee the area and head towards the missile launcher. It will be marked on your mini-map by a missile image. As you flee to the area, be sure to collect as many weapons and power-ups as possible. By heading to the left when the battle begins, you can obtain a Homing Missile, a Swarmer Missile, and Mega Gun Bullets. When you are coming close to the launcher, slide around to get the enemies in your sights. You will notice that one of the limos is different from the rest. Whereas the majority of the enemies are a solid red color, one of the cars will be striped instead. This is the vehicle of the enemy faction leader. Hit the striped limo with a Freeze Beam, sticking it in place, and then unleash the fury of your Missiles and Mega Gun Bullets upon it. Speed towards the wreckage of the vehicle even as the other competitors pepper you with fire from both sides. Hit the flaming faction leader, marked with an icon above her head, to strap her to the back of your vehicle.

Having already lured the enemies close to the launcher, you should be just about ready to fire the missile. You will have to deal with the other limos first, though, as sacrificing a leader takes a long time and you will have to survive until the entire circular meter in the center of the screen has filled up. You may need to make another quick power-up run before killing the other limos. Keep in mind that the battle will not be over after you hit the Iron Maiden with the first missile, so don’t get cocky and think that you can win even if your health is low. Drive around the area and collect new weapons if necessary, then blast all of the pursuing limos back to where they came from. Make use of this momentary respite to begin the faction leader sacrifice. If you still had plenty of weapons after dealing with the faction leader’s car, it’s worth noting that you can begin the sacrifice even as you do combat with the other vehicles as long as you stay within the ring of lights behind the missile launcher. By doing this, you can get a head start on your sacrifice if you’re well-prepared enough.

Chuck the faction leader into the machine. A missile will fire, and you will lose control of your vehicle. Grimm will gain temporary invincibility as you take control of the missile. Now you must guide the projectile into the Iron Maiden. Two bars will appear in the lower center of the screen. The first shows your fuel. Without any fuel, your missile will drop. The lower of the two bars is the missile’s health. Enemies will try to shoot the missile down, so pilot it across unpopulated or inaccessible areas to avoid their fire. Use the fuel to activate a shield on the missile, the same way you can activate a shield on your vehicle, when the Iron Maiden begins to attack. Your missile won’t be nimble enough to avoid the oncoming fireballs, so this is the only way to survive. Hit the Iron Maiden to begin phase two of the battle.

Another group of limos will attack, and the missile launcher will begin to drive around the level on the main road. Make a sharp left turn out of the starting area to access a dirt road containing a Power Missile, a Remote Bomb, some Homing Missiles, and a Tubro pickup. Now you are ready to take on the limos. Just as you did before, track down the striped limo and destroy it first. Grab the faction leader and destroy the rest of the limos before finding the launcher and driving in its wake to sacrifice the leader. Use the same strategy to guide the missile home.

This is when the Iron Maiden will begin summoning doll heads to attack you. These are explosive, so watch out. Drive through a tunnel in the middle of the main road to find a health pickup. Head around to the various weapons spawns detailed earlier to stock up on Missiles. Your targeting systems will target the doll heads before targeting the Iron Maiden. Destroy them all, and then unleash the rest of your attacks on the giant mech. Once the mech’s health is halved, an electric cage will appear. Stay in the cage or risk death. Keep attacking and avoiding or shooting the doll head drones, and soon the Iron Maiden will fall down onto the bridge. In addition to its previous moves, it will now use a shockwave attack as well. Jump over it and keep attacking. Unload your entire arsenal on the unmoving opponent to end the battle quickly. As a last-ditch effort, Dollface will detach the head of the mech and fly around attacking you. Use homing weapons to destroy it easily, ending this long and hard boss battle for once and for all.