We just finished up a revelry of battle with Turok: Rage Wars, so I am a little too spoiled by the ingenuity of Acclaim's creative spirits to really give Twisted Metal 4's armory its due, but the breath and resourcefulness of killer artillery in TM4 is very good. However, the gameplay is in the warfare, and so while 989 didn't do a damn thing to improve on the rueful TruPhysics of TM III (cars flip less - that's about it), they wisely concentrated their time on an excellent variety of bombs and weapons that make any Twisted Metal live up to its namesake. Cars accelerate to top speed in seconds, corner on a dime and slow from 150 to 20 in a car length, float through the air gracefully, and crash into each other without much disturbance (although there is damage rendered and displayed). No TM has had a particularly realistic physics engine when compared to, say, Need for Speed. That's the feeling of driving Twisted Metal 4.īut you can't launch Napalm out of a Hot Wheel (at least, not without some heavy modifications and a parent's supervision), and that's the fun of Twisted Metal. If you have a toy car by you (and, for some reason, every desk here at IGN has several toy cars handy at all times, so I will play along with you as you read on), put your finger on the roof of the toy and wheel the little auto around your computer stand. The game plays just like Codemaster's Micro Machines games. They feel like Matchbox toys, with no mass, gravity, suspension, acceleration, true turning radius, road grip, or velocity. Let me repeat that, lest this point not be taken seriously by 989's TruPhysics department: We hate the control of the cars in this game. Just get in there and bomb the crap out of the place.ĭespite the 'fantabulous' TruPhysics (which, for the slow of mind, is a combination of the words "True" and "Physics"), we hate the control of the cars in this game.
Sure, there is some kind of story about something happening and somebody ruling the world and an Alderanian princess you have to save.
Gameplay Twisted Metal 4 is all about the heat of battle.
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