Twisted Metal: Black

Were TM3 and TM4 worth anything?

...anything but the mouldy piece of cheese long forgotten at the back of the fridge, that is. Yes, this post is about TM3 and TM4 possibly having something worth talking about, buried under all the obvious sucktitude (yep, it's © to me. 2003).

You see, everyone here agrees (or at least, should agree...) that TM3 and TM4 were... 'bad'. I don't need to elaborate, it's been done so many times. But is it possible that perhaps 989 had actually been able to think of something good that Singletrac hadn't?

I'm not claiming that it is true, but I'm interested in your opinion. I'd bought TM4 after getting hooked on TM2, hoping that they would have improved, but like everyone else I was disappointed, to say the least.

Yet when I think about it, the physics model of TMB is very different from TM2. As much as I had hated TM4, I still played it for a while before I finally placed it down for good, and from what I remember, the physics model was a little similar to TMB.

Furthermore, I had bought (a highly pirated copy of) TM3 about a year afterwards, wondering if it would be TM2-like or TM4-like... but it was more like TM4 than anything else, of course. But what I noticed (I only played this shit twice before getting rid of it *lol*) was that the physics model, albeit different from TM2 and TMB, was a more drastic version of TM4. My conclusion was that perhaps 989 had thought they had got it right in TM4 by improving on TM3's.

Now, the importance of this, is that TMB's physics engine seems more similar to TM4 than TM2. I am not implying that they intended to make it so, but seeing as no one has severe complaints about the physics engine in TMB, could it be possible that 989 had at least a good idea, if not implementation, when they made TM4?

I obviously haven't explored those atrocious games thoroughly, and I'm sure that you guys and girls haven't either, but then could it be possible that perhaps they had some **subtly good ideas** that perhaps we are oblivious to?

Treat this post like discussing the exploration of a inhospitable planet about to be swallowed up by a huge star.