The whole TM series is great, but 2 is clearly the best. My favorite way to play TM is to find a good ambush point - usually a place in the background you can only get to with a jump, then spin around and wait with missiles ready. :)
The whole TM series is great, but 2 is clearly the best. My favorite way to play TM is to find a good ambush point - usually a place in the background you can only get to with a jump, then spin around and wait with missiles ready. :)
Even though it is a shoddy dumbed down (graphically) port, I would still say that Cyber Sled is right up there with the best of the car combat games.
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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
The battle mode on that one was amazing.
I always liked the endings for Twisted Metal, really gave you incentive to try out the other characters. I remember getting Twisted Metal Black: Online for free in the mail and it seemed like there was only 2-3 people playing it at any given time. Which brings up another point, does anyone sort of miss playing online when it was more anonymous. I mean now with microphones and webcams everything is a bit more grounded. I used to sort of view online opponents as mortal enemies.
I think not, but it was cool. Liked the earlier first Battletanx on N64 even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
We used to play these multiplayer quite a bit. I think Rogue Trip allowed four players via split-screen using a link cable between two Playstations. I seem to recall that Twisted Metal 3 allowed eight players this way, a four way split-screen on two linked Playstations, though it didn't play very well and was hard to see what was going on.
None of them was as popular in our matches as Battlewheels on the Atari Lynx, though. Six player combat and you could even build your own car! It was essentially a videogame version of the original Car Wars pocket boardgame. I'm amazed that this game never got made for any other systems.
Another multiplayer car combat game that was popular for us was Vatlva on Sega Saturn. It also allowed for six players simultaneously.
I actually like most of these. I dig the first four Twisted Metal games (Small Brawl is shit though), Rogue Trip, Auto Destruct, Red Asphalt, etc. I liked Vigilante 8 but I think it's better on N64, and the second is obviously better on DC. Critical Depth and Cybersled are pretty bad, though.
Vatlva is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bones Justice
I never liked Twisted Metal much at all, myself. As for Vigilante 8, I do have one of those on the N64 and it's okay. I don't love it, but it's alright. I do like some vehicular combat games, but I prefer ones that are more about having a larger level to explore, instead of just "drive around an arena/area and blow up the other cars".
I do have Critical Depth too. It's alright, but it badly needs analog controls... and yeah, the deathmatch-only, small arenas design isn't the best.
That is, I LOVED BattleTanx and BT Global Assault on the N64, but I'd think of those as quite different things from Twisted Metal. I also loved Recoil on the PC; that's a fantastic game! But in those games you drive around and do objectives and stuff, you don't just have to shoot everyone in a small area.