Twisted Metal: Small Brawl is a vehicle combat game in which the player takes control of one of twelve unique remote control vehicles. While in control of a vehicle, you can move around your rc as if it was a real RC, being the analog sticks are set up as an actual real-life controller. The player can accelerate, steer, brake, reverse, activate turbo and even turn tightly at will. Weapons are switched and activate with the shoulder buttons, all vehicles have their own personalized special weapon that has infinity ammunition but takes time to recharge after constant usage. Along with the special weapons, they all also have mounted machine guns that have infinate ammo as well but can overheat if held for long period of time. If this happens, the machine guns require a while to cool down before they can be activated again. Additionally, you can also activate special abilities using combinations on the directional pad as well. These special abilites consist of shield which make you immune to all damage for a few seconds, freeze in place opponents, make yourself invisiable to enemies around and more. The whole gameplay is pretty much to destroy all opponents on the map and be the last one alive in each match to progress to the next level being another map. The game ends when you lose all your lives or by beating all the maps, if the player is able to beat all the maps they will be shown a short clip to an ending video of the selected character.