How Twisted Metal 4 Killed The Franchise 

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I loved this game instantly as a kid, only to grow up and realize that a lot of people hated it lol I still love it to this day.

I’ve always really liked the intro cutscene. It’s just so garish and ugly and bold but it’s really stuck with me. More than ever the world of Twisted Metal seemed like a nightmare world now that it was being run by Sweet Tooth lol

I honestly wish they can actually make Calypso playable a 2nd time, this time with newer gimmick outside of making him way to OP.

Never forget the voice of Duke Nukem/one of the voices of the Postal Dude (also the voice of Big The Cat!) lent his talents to this game.. to play a trashman.

TM4 will always be special to me because it was my first TM game. And as a kid, I have no understanding of game mechanics, story etc so I just had a blast playing it alone and with friends. Also that menu track of One Minute Silence is permanently embedded in my memory. Its up there with TM Black's menu music and the Los Angeles/Playground Peril theme from TM2/SB. Can't wait for the SB video. One of the best in the series imo.

I always loved that you could create your own car in TM4. If they ever made a new TM game, I would hope they could bring that back and upgrade it

This game was a guilty pleasure for me. I played it a lot during my teenage years. The create-a-combatant was cool, if severally undercooked.

Thank you TBP! Personally, I very much appreciate Twisted Metal 4's avant-garde approach to the series (where bold risks were taken in development, which is an uncommon trend nowadays in gaming), with Sweet Tooth taking over, the art direction, the intro, characters - some new and strange - and the maps such as Carnival, Oil Rig, and Neon City, not to mention the soundtrack (to this day, we still love to play Cirrus' Time's Running Out from Neon City). So much personality in that game! I remember my brother and I going to the game rental store in 1999, seeing Twisted Metal 4's awesome cover on the shelf and being thrilled to play it. Of course there is TM2 and Black, but for these reasons, TM4 always stands out in my mind as one of my top favorite TM games, if not my favorite.

Honestly... I loved TM4 it was such a fun experience and a new take on the series

Nightmare Creatures 2 also heavily featured Roberto Zombie. The intro and T.V. spot both used the song Demonoid Phenomenon. Modern games are missing that. Not only good actual songs that people actually listen to but just good songs in general.

THOUGHTS ON GAMEPLAY MECHANICS: 13:41 The codes gained an extra input because of complaints 989 received over Twisted Metal 3's attacks being too easy to accidentally input. I know that first-hand, accidentally firing off a freeze blast when I was trying to do a fast weave in a panic many times as a kid. As for why Rear-Attack costs energy: It was straight up overpowered in TM3 because it bypassed weapon cooldowns, letting you fire as fast as you could input the command. (in fact, the TM3 Hard Mode A.I. abuses the hell out of this too. 989 knew about it.) That said, 989 should have made it cost no energy, while programming it to respect weapon cooldowns. 16:38 Enemies are very easy to kill with the right combos. As for hitboxes, yeah, they were tightened up quite a bit from basically every prior game, so you have to be more precise, and learn what weapons work best at which ranges. Homing missiles over-track at close range, which finally gives them a plausible drawback and forces players to learn how to use other weapons correctly. TM: Black and Head-On would go on to retain these nerfs in one fashion or another. (with TM: Black flat out nerfing the base damage of Homers significantly; they knew it was a balance issue too, 989 just got around to addressing it first) 14:40 I don't agree that there was no improvement from TM3; the cars are VASTLY more responsive, and can actually turn worth a damn now; which is the primary reason the prior game felt so slow and why TM2 feels so fast. Frankly, I prefer these physics to Twisted Metal 2's most of the time, and feel like people forget just how janky they were in that game too anytime the levels got rampy or vertical. The clingy tires are really weird and buggy, I'll give you that. It's something that seriously needed polish. However, what often goes unspoken about TM4 in particular is how its physics let you do some seriously fun car-fu via the Turbo. Those jets of flame that fire off when you use Turbo are not just for show; they actually propel your vehicle in that direction and that INCLUDES WHILE AIRBORNE. You can actually jump (via the command input power or a ramp), turn mid-air and Turbo-boost horizontally in another direction. No other TM game really lets you do this to this extent, and it's the sole reason I forgive the otherwise wonky toy-car physics, because on some levels it's incredibly fun and useful (Amazonia, Minion's Maze, two of the Tron-looking unlockable test-demo levels).

One of my fondest gaming memories is when i was like 6 years old, one evening i watched my dad beat sweettooth without cheesing the battle to win. He took him on, fair and square, and WON. My dad was a champion gamer to us back then. He’d play twisted metal, Driver, and super bomberman…… I really miss playing games with my dad

Not sure if you knew or not, but you can use the proxy mines on certain bosses and even regular vehicles to launch them out of the map to get an instant kill. I am sure most people consider this cheap or not a legitimate way to play the game but it is hilariously amusing to me that it can be done. Loved the video TBP and can't wait for Small Brawl!

With trash man its more believable since its just his 'big the cat' voice again, but its still bizarre to me that John st. Jon, goddamn Duke Nukem himself, voices Melvin of all characters. Also with his whole 'crazy entertainer' thing going on, i'm kinda hoping we get a melvin and co. equivalent if we ever have a second season of the twisted metal tv series.

I would constantly switch between Twisted Metal Black and Twisted Metal 4 when i was younger so i have a bit of a bias but besides the controls i appreciate alot of the weirdness of 4

TM4 was the first TM I ever played. Imagine my dissapointment when I found no Custom Cars and no bosses on most maps in all other games xD xD

Amazonia -3,000. Skold. Chaos. What a banger. That song hits hard, period.

TM4 was the first twisted metal game i played as a kid and it was what got me into the TM franchise. i agree it wasnt the best, but as a kid that had no real grasp of what the story was or how game mechanics worked i was able to just enjoy it for what it was, that and with vigilante 8 for the N64 which was the copy cat of twisted metal. i wont lie, i have been wanting to learn game development because i would really like to remake older games that clearly dont get love anymore from their IP holders. twisted metal is 100% on that list of games i would like to remaster and even make corrections to just so that way it can be brought back into relevancy and enjoyed in the new modern era of gaming. i doubt i will ever be able to do it but its a dream of mine so as long as im still kicking im not going to give up on it.

I have a question for you. What do you think on games people universally agree to be the worst games of all time? I'm talking about games like Superman 64, Sonic '06, Bubsy 3D, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, Life of Black Tiger, Batman: Dark Tomorrow, Drake of the 99 Dragons, the Zelda CD-i games, Duke Nukem Forever, Shaq Fu, Flatout 3, Hunt Down the Freeman, and E.T. for Atari 2600. Do you think any of these games deserve their reputation, and what do you think which game deserve to be on that pillar?

Yet another TBP banger. Some of your videos made me consider playing a lot of these games you were discussing. Especially God of War and Twisted Metal to expand my horizons. But we'll see if I get to play those but I would like to give them a fair shot.

Funny enough, Twisted Metal 3 and 4 were my introduction to the franchise ( had a friend next door who owned both). I had fun with them at the time, but as soon as I got Black for myself and continued on to get the rest, I could see why everybody was kinda hating on the two XD

Calypso's Ending might as well be the Canon Ending, cuz He dosen't want his Tournament to be a Clownfest.

I can’t wait to see you tackle Twisted Metal: Black as an experience! That was my favorite in the series for a number of reasons, despite a few obvious growing pains. The lore, the secrets, the levels, the atmosphere… What a fun game.

The button imputs were changed to prevent accidental special moves

TM4 was my first Twisted Metal on a hand-me-down PS1 after my stepbrother upgraded to an xbox. I absolutely loved it, and while I recognize it's not the best in the series, it holds a special place in my heart.

I honestly love the CGI cutscenes.

TM4 is my second favourite TM behind 2. It’s really underrated, once you get use to it it’s really fun. Playing on Immortal makes it a lot less boring as well.

TM4 was my first Twisted Metal so since I didn't know any better I still love it XD. Always tossed the PS1 disc in my Panisonic Jog Proof cd player and listen to the soundtrack off the disc :P After that I found Vigilante 8 and Rouge Trip and that's all I played from there on out.

If and when the new TM finally drops I wouldn't mind seeing some things from 4 implemented. Although it's far from one of the better entries in the series, I liked some of the new weapons like the freeze remote and Auto Lob (a bunch of mortars fired rapidly), and the the proximity mines were a blast... literally... to chain together. Also enjoyed some of the characters. Orbital had a cool story, Calypso having his own nuke truck was awesome and the first alien character (Quatro) was a neat addition. Creating your own car was a unique and smart addition, hats off to whoever came up with that idea. Yeah it was pretty bare bones but still to this day no other TM has that. The soundtrack was great and each song fit the level perfectly. My only gripes with the game were that the levels weren't real world locations, some of the characters were more awkward than funny and physics wise I'd say this game is the worst in the series. Getting stuck in the ground or on walls, all of your weapons missing the other cars, crappy ramming collisions, etc. It really takes away from the fun and flow of the game, as you said in the video. TM4 while not a bad game is definitely on the lower end of the TM spectrum for me too. Even at the time of it's release there were better games on the market like the Vigilante 8 games and Rogue Trip (would love to hear your take on those 3 games in depth one day). Can't wait for your Small Brawl review tho. Completely agree that it's an absolute gem that's severely underrated.

4 was my first twisted metal game so its got a special place for me

The prox mines with the remote explosives made for excellent trap setting. You could daisy chain the prox mines or stack a shit ton on top of each other and roll out. Use the remote to detonate remotely if an enemy gets close but not close enough. Was how I originally beat moon buggy since the tram tunnel acts as a bottle neck.

I liked 4 a good bit back then (though not as much as Black). The characters are cheesy, but the stages and the music are great and I like all of the secret locations and weapon variety as well. They tried to put a lot into it and shake things up, but the tone did feel a bit different with the newer characters. I didn't get into 3 as much as I just couldn't get into the slippery controls. Overall still good times and it reminds me of how much time has flown by. Also Duke 3d on PS1 allowed you to change the detail to help with frame rate as well. It's definitely a good option to have, especially on more congested levels.

Never understood why Melvin has cat whiskers or why SweetTooth is a mute that may as well be a cardboard cutout in the background.

Weird observation about TM4, but the opening FMV has a new model for Calypso, but his ending recycles the one with the twisted smile from the previous game!

How is it uglier than tm 1?

Twisted Metal 4 is still my favrotie PS1 game of all time. It has flaws and quite frankly I thought it was good right out the gate, but I think with how crazy it can get, especially Sweet Tooth, yo7 can make an argument that this game really is Twisted. I’ll give you a few things, the physics can be tough to work with although to be fair I find it more humorous than annoying, the stages are indeed ti big but you have to give credit to the amount of secrets there are. Back then in blew me away, it was like the game that just kept on giving. The final battle against Sweet Tooth I’ll only give you half, yeah yeah up up down down, but all things considered if you make it to the game with all 5 lives then Sweet Tooth dosent stand a chance. Plus he’s the final boss, you kinda have to expect final,boss’s to be cheap or unfair. Not to mention there is another way to cheese a fight in a fun way. Use freeze bombs, plant a bunch of Mine’s and lay Dynamite on top of it and wait for the freeze to wear off and detonate, that’s half damage guaranteed and sometimes a fall kill. This game does give you creative ways to kill. And yeah the controls can be hit and miss but I didn’t find the controls to be bad out the gate and Orbital is one of my favorite car’s. And quite frankly the cutscenes are so scary, so awkward and so memorable that one can’t help but love them. I remember each and every character, I remember their dialogues, I remember their ends, their specials, I remember so much about these characters . Maybe part of the reason is because this was my first Twisted Metal game and I own both 3 and 4 and when I tried to play 3 it just didn’t feel right at all. It felt glitchy and unstable and not in a fun way so,I went back to 4. So maybe a new comer could find more enjoyment like I did compared to someone like you who came into the game as a veteran. Twisted Metal 4 is a good game, flawed? Yes, but still good and I’d rather have a good game in hindsight than a bad game over all and for me personally the game was good out the gate. I can understand if a veteran has issues but a new comer might just have a different experience and opinion like me and thanks to that I can enjoy this game without the first 3 games holding it down. Try to keep that in mind 😀✌️ Great video 😀

This game really shines on the hard difficult, it improves the action of the game. And you can even create match against all bosses in the same map. I used to play the tournament with I.A. ally and challenged myself to not let my ally dies, if it dies i just reset the map and play again until i finish the match ( it's really difficult against Moon Buggy and Sweet Tooth )

The Joneses were a reference to the Griswolds from National Lampoon’s Vacation. They even had the family truckster and luggage on the roof.

Twisted metal 4 happens to be my all-time favorite game in the series, but while I will vehemently defend this game, most of the complaints lobbed towards it are legitimate and while I can understand why people might take umbridge with most if not all of the major changes, it will always remain my favorite to this day and no one can tell me that I'm not allowed to like it, warts and all. As for the video, I feel that you hit the nail on the head when it came to bringing to light those aforementioned warts but you were also very nuanced and objective overall. So yeah, the video is primo stuff.

you can pretty much cheese every stage construction yard, grab the enemies with the crane and drop them but as they are going down grab them again, the enemies take damage when they enter those big boxes with fire, not when touching the fire, so i you thrown them in, grab them to take them out of the box and then release them again you can kill them in like 4 drops or something, for the boss fight the crane gets destroyed so you cant do it that way for the neon city, go to the secret area grab the lightning, get rid of every weapon except for the lighting, wait for your special move to reload, get rid of it, use lighting and spam rear attack, everyone will die in like 2 or 3 lightings if they are in the area where it hits the stage road rage is boring the best way to win that one is to lay proximity mines after the speed boost or after a teleport portal, still the portals are in the upper side of the stage and the ai almost never goes there. the bedroom, same as neon city, grab the lightning and spam rear attack, in this stage the lighting hits near the electrical plugs, also you can use the portal to teleport to the bed and lay 3 proximity mines, RC car will teleport after you get hit and die from flying out of the map to the sky amazonia, same as before, grab the lightning and spam rear attack. the lightning hits around the tower oil rig, again, get the lightning spam rear attack, the lightning hits in the main platform minion maze, grab the lightning and spam rear attack, the lightning hits the entire map except for the highest area, and the lighning is at the highest spot carnival, grab the lightning and spam rear attack, the lightning hits the roller coaster and near it, this makes it a little more annoying to kill the enemies since they have to be close to the roller coaster to die it surprised me that you said rear attack sucks because at least in my opinion is the most broken thing in the game.

Moon Buggy and Sweet Tooth specials were SO BROKEN lol. I had twisted Metal 2, 3, and 4. Always loved the games but the physics were horrible. My pipe dream is that they'd make a modern twisted metal game but with GTA4 physics or something similar.

I have a wild theory regarding Needles that I have been juggling since I have seen the Black and Head On Endings. That being that Needles head isn't literally on fire. Hear me out My first bit comes from Head On, in Needles ending we see, for a second, Needles looking into the side mirror of his truck, which shows Marcus just for a second. Hell, he likely isn't even dressed as a clown in this game. His real 'form' is implied to simply be Marcus, or to really sell the difference RoadKill. Even with Dark Tooths ending we see that the first personality we see is Marcus before we see Needles kinda get yanked out of Marcus in a meta way. This says to me that the default is Marcus, Needles is just a secondary personality, at least in Head On. Next we go back a bit to Black. In Black, it is established that everything is in his head here, so nothing is as it seems. Now, in a previous video of TBP has inferred that Preacher has some sort of sway over him, likely from past trauma of someone in the realm of religion, and we can't count out the fact that Preacher was present at Needles execution and supposedly put the curse on him. It should also be noted that in the first game Needles didn't have the fire on his head, keep that in mind. Now, lets throw all of this together, using TBP timeline with Black being the first entry/Needles seeing the first game through a specific lens. The fire on his head, being enacted by Preacher at his execution (which may or may not have happened, it could also be all in his head too), he is in the chair, getting zapped which is supposed to kill someone, his head catches fire then he gets stomped by guards. This could represent a priest causing the Trauma, the fire as a result is the pain and madness that resulted from said trauma, and the beatdown immediately after is him feeling helpless when he tried to get away from it, but couldn't. That was the point when he 'died' in a sense and became the Needles we see, the fire not being there at all, but representing his psychosis and insanity. The electric chair bit, the cops, none of that REALLY happened, it is his minds way of interpreting it, a way to cope instead of facing reality, just like with how he views Yellowjacket, but rather than an external identity being the victim, it is internal and makes himself the victim with the electric chair bit. A religious person cause the trauma which killed who his innocence and caused the start of his madness (the fire on his head), he tried to 'run away' from the trauma, but couldn't and it beat him down to the point of accepting his madness. Even the ending is representative of this to a degree. He had the cure to his madness in his hands, but it would mean giving up the persona that in a sense kept him away from the trauma. Needles destroying it could even be his minds way of saying "No, the old Marcus isn't coming back because he isn't wont survive, I wont let him remember it," thus killing Calypso and never again giving himself the chance to ever go back to that frail child who lost his innocence so long ago. Needles, although a psychotic murderer, is in a sense the personality that took over to keep him from being the scared little boy he may have been. Head On, taking the theme of Marcus and Needles being the same person just different personalities, hammers home with the idea of the fire not being there with both endings of Sweet Tooth and RoadKill, it's just not in your face. I know it's grasping at straws to a degree, but it's my way of MAYBE giving more to read into with the mental health concept

I loved TM4 just because I could play calypso. Freeze + nuke combo was the best feeling, especially when you one shot squishy cars.

I think with Road Rage the freeway section was designed with the idea of the freeway sector being a separate arena, the intention being that combat there would be very high speed drive by type fighting

This game felt so legendary as a kid. Unlocking characters from the old game like super axel and super thumper was so cool to me. But trying to play it as an adult I realized how terrible the gameplay actually was

For me Black and the unreleased Black sequels will always be the best of the series, but the PS1 games are extremely important in many ways. TM1 was one of the first demolition games made that brought life to the genre. 2 was the first game in the series to really get things right. 3 gave us a look at 3D animation (even though it sucks) and 4 was the first time they really messed with the formula and didn’t just do Calypso runs contest, someone wins, they get a wish granted, they get fucked over.

I loved Twisted Metal as a kid, but this game always gave me a migraine to play. I could always tell something was wrong with it even if I didn't have the taste or the conceptual vocabulary to understand why. As an adult, I now have the context to understand what a dumpster fire of design on every level it was. Fuck this game.

I actually liked Twisted Metal 4 because it's the only Car Combat game, to my knowledge, that allows for custom character creation. It should also be noted that the custom character ending, that's not an ending, is also used for the various bosses, including Minion and Sweettooth.

There is a sweet spot for calypso nuke. If u time it right it almost 1 shots all enemies. Man i practiced that a ton It was janky sure. But it was awesome to play split screen with my childhood friends. Only one better was twist 2. But rest of games in that area was subpar.

Re: The intro and lore of this game: The intro is a story told from Melvin's point of view, about his master Sweet Tooth. Melvin I guess is a baby clown?? So that's why he sees twisted metal as a travelling circus: It's his only point of reference for something of that sort. We don't exactly know the timeline but it makes sense that Melvin would think of these events as long ago using old-timey cars if he is only a baby, I personally always took it as canon that Sweet Tooth won the 3rd Twisted Metal tournament or one after it and wished for Calypso's power. As for the ring, it's simply a macguffin meant to visually convey the plot, you can tell what's going on even if you're a little kid and don't understand what Melvin is saying.

FUN FACT: This game is one of the places where you can hear the remix version of Dragula in question, as the other game with that particular song is the PAL version of Gran Turismo 2. Also, Cirrus' "Time's Running Out" from Moon City is on Test Drive 6 as well.

5:27 the weird thing is, as a 8 or 9 year old when this was brand new, I thought these graphics were the shit. Loved this game. Now that I’ve finally gotten a ps4 a new version would be really nice Sony, might even give you something to combat Microsoft with cause they’re running away with all the good companies lately

I love how this game has maybe three different Calypso models and they’re all hideous

TM4 was my only childhood Twisted Metal 4. while you are right the TM4 cutscenes are uncanny i love the first cutscene specifically. the voiceover is great and I think they actually did a good job with the 3D designs compared to 3. it felt really intimidating as a kid and I didnt play the game too much tbh. overall I really love the weird creepy presentation this game has with the music and design even so

I used to play this game on the old PS1 as a kid and I never ran into collision issues. I guess I was lucky? I do remember cars feeling rather bouncy though and had the same problems using Orbital. It wasn't impossible but felt kinda ridiculous that I was more like a spinning drill than an "orbital". I don't understand your interest in shortening the campaign. If you wanted to spend less time why not just play a skirmish. As for the levels being too big, I find that also absurd. It was interesting that I could actually lose my opponents and manage to recuperate and come back to fight. I never had a problem navigating but then again I'm also pretty good at mental mapping. Also as a kid I had no idea of any of the D-pad codes. Sweet tooth was hard.

SMall thing but at 13:16 to their defense, they weren't "taken away" in TM3. Like you said earlier in the video the game was 100% built from scratch and they didn't have time to add in stuff like the shield. Someone asked one of the devs about shield being removed and they pretty much said there was nothing to remove or take away lol

Sweet tooth’s teeth in TM4 is bad due to eating all the candy and ice cream

If it helps anyone regarding this game, I found the easiest way to beat Sweet Tooth was with Orbital. His base speed is already so fast, and his turbo is able to OUTRUN his special from tracking you. Although whenever it did get me, i didn't use Hyperspace and instead used Shield to sit through the damage, because I figured that the RNG of Hyperspace wouldn't really help me in that situation.

The only other game of that era I can think of with a "Gameplay or Graphics" system was Tobal No. 1 which dropped around 96. Great video on an absolute hot mess of a game. Feels like there's nowhere left to really go but up with the series.

I honestly liked TM4, it was doing it’s own thing. I will admit that there could have been more (like info of the boss characters and them getting their own ending).

Here is a tip for TM4's Sweet Tooth fight just under 5 mins, teleport using the warp over the "Freaks" building next to the giant tint, put 3 sensor mines (Proxinity Mine) right after warping, you have almost 4 seconds before they get detonated, then make your way over the giant tint by jumping from freaks building to tint with a turbo boost and wait for Sweet tooth to warp and get bombed and sent to fly away, then, bye bye! XD

Also, if you thought the game was too hard for you, you can always play with an AI as a partner

As I had said on your TM3 video. I know this game is bad but I love it all the same. I played it alot along with 3 with my little brother so I have alot of good memories with the game. I like the soundtrack more then 3 but I like the "feeling" of 3's atmosphere. I do wish they did more with the custom character on the wishes like it was pointed out. 989 might have done alot of bad with the TM series but I do love they kept Mel McMurrin as Calypso. TM2-4 Calypso's voice is ICONIC for me and the best in the series with David Boat in Head-On following after.

As someone who has had their own insufferably fucked out experiences with insomnia, I can say I unabashedly sympathize with Sweet Tooth. Consistent tribulations with that garbage have made me fly off the handle on a multitude of occasions so speaking from experience, yeah it'll do a number on the stability of your mood.

Its funny you mention the graphics settings followed up by the XBone and XboneX. The PS1 orignials consoles SCHP 1000 contain splint banked video memory something the gpu struggled with future models combined the memory modules resulting in smoother gpu preformence they also upgraded the lasers in future models. Anyone else remember constantly fixing playstation disc drives as I sure remember.

Ya know, Sweettooth tried Mantasleep blindfolds once, it caught fire almost instantly.

I only played TM4 and Black, the memories I get from playing with my brothers for hours on end, going to the cybercafe to get the cheat codes, or even waiting for days on end for them to come up on the TV (there was a TV show that for each episode would give advice or cheat codes for games, you had to be very lucky to be watching when they talked about a game that you own, AND ALSO having paper and a pen nearby). TM4 was cool as hell for a teenager, wich I guess it was the whole point of the game, cheesy heavy metal with cars and guns, and a pirate, and Rob Zombie as a f*cking playable character, hell yeah!

I gotta love the cheesy ass custom voicelines for player characters lmao

I only TRUELY played 2, 4, black, and Head On. By truly I mean I put a decent amount of time into. Never played 1 or 3, and only played a LITTLE bit of Small Brawl. I can say that I put the most time into 4. I had SO much fun with it back in the day, so was kinda surprised to see that everyone shits all over the game when I got older. Was it an amazing game? No. But was it fun? I'd say hell yes.

i remember getting my PlayStation Christmas day in either 95 or 96. never got to experience the original twisted metal game on my own, but did have a cousin who had it. rented TM 3, but don't think i got to far into it. i did however buy TM 4, and loved playing it. main character i picked was rob zombie as i was just getting into metal. made it as far as the Axel boss, and just quit after that. i never could beat him.

agreed those endings for 3 were pure a$$ w/out question. as a side note i don't think it was a good idea to have Pyro take Thumper's flamethrower attack cuz that was Thumper's thing since 1. if they were goin in that route to introduce a new character they shoulda had Thumper sat that game out cuz his special was not the Flamethrower but a loud sound base frequency which is fairly similar to Axel's seismic blast special from Twisted Metal 2.

Oh god so much memories. Me and my bestfriend used to play this a lot. When you let trashman and crusher use their special at the same time, you end up flying in space and die. We also loved to experiment different ways to launch ourselves out of bounds using remote or proximity mines and die. Lol. And calypso has such an op special. Freeze the enemy. Activate shield. Fire nuke point blank and boom.

I was a huge Twisted Metal fan as a kid. I got a PS1 and a copy of Twisted Metal 2 for my 10th birthday and immediately fell in love with the series. Back then I didn’t understand the switch to 989 Studios so when I happily got a copy of Twisted Metal 3 I remember playing it but not liking it as much as TM2. When I got TM4 for Christmas I thought it was a lot of fun and really did play it all of the time. It wasn’t until years later when I went online that I learned a lot of other people disliked it. I think all the criticisms you point out in this video are totally fair but I still enjoyed the game. I actually would have been interested to see what an alternative universe “Twisted Metal 5” from 989 Studios would have looked like. Because I do respect the way they wanted to create an entirely new cast of characters and make the franchise their own.

are you ever going to flip the bacon in the intro?, its going to start to burn on that side if you wait to long.

Quick fun fact: Moon Buggy looks like a nod to that old arcade game Moon Patrol. Same vehicle design.

I remember enjoying twisted metal 4 as a teen and played it a lot, I recently went back to it and the controls and physics really got on my nerves. Where as TM2 I always liked, back then and now. It’s the twisted metal I always go back to. One thing I enjoyed about twisted metal 4 is the AI. I liked that they used all the abilities available to the player, as well as being smart enough to go for health picks ups when damaged.

Man I loved this game. I used to always let myself get special'd by bosses like Auger and Crusher so I can spam nukes on their faces being directly hit by the missile. Also the crane in the first stage has some weird bug where you can pick up the car again halfway through falling into the fire below and they'll get stuck in the roof of the machinery. Then you can drag them left and right and they'll repeatedly take damage

What I am going to say is kinda twisted (haha!) but there's something fun about this game I'd like to point out. What if the Joneses were the winner of the tournament? Think about it: they want a new RV and they got it. Sweet Tooth drive it and run off a cliff, presumably killing the family and himself. The clue is the car. Don't you realise it? What if it was the new Warthog! The Joneses didn't need it anymore, so they get rid of it (like in a junkyard) and someone had the idea to put the body of the station wagon on top of a tank without the turret. It became the new Warthog, featured in both Black and 2012. Twisted theory, huh? (all joke aside, it doesn't match with the timeline video you made some months ago, but who knows?) Otherwise, great review!

This game was my first twisted metal game back in fourth grade. I remember getting this game in 2011 and playing it with my brother on PS1.

I still wanna see that gun fight playout with Sweetooths minions, & Quatro. lol

I still think that 4 is better than 3, it feels a bit better to play and it at least has a personality of its own. I wouldn't say its great, but it does have some fun and creativity and I'd play it again if I went through all the games, luckily Head On exists so I can ignore 3.

I played this one always on co-op mode, so I have fond memories of it. I never play it on single player, it just feels so long and the enemies health bars take forever to go down. O~0 At least the cars are fast. Twisted Metal 3 is just unplayable for me, I hate it.

To me the idea of the game sounds good. The idea of Sweet Tooth being the host of Twisted Metal and Calypso being one of the drivers is a nice change up.Adding the new line up characters,AU version of old characters like they did Warthog and Mr Grimm,some of the old characters being bosses,Each stage having a gimmick. Hell I can see this as a spin AU Twisted Metal series like we got years later with Black,Small Brawl and 2012. Its just the idea doesn't work as a sequel. Hell since Twisted Metal 3 and 4 where timeline replace with Head On(Which I m fine with Head On Is awesome). The Idea of them making games continued the 989 studio game universe isn;t a bad idea to, I m saying lets make Sweet Teeth hosting twisted metal its own Series not a one and done

I honestly enjoy this game much more than TM2. It's certainly not a better game, objectively, but it's a hell of a lot more fun to me. It has so many annoying things about it, like a clogged inventory of utterly useless weapons, some pretty woeful characters and unbalanced vehicles, a couple of the most awful levels of all time, and probably the worst physics of any TM game. All that said, it's got a lot of weird charm, and it's really really grown on me. It also has a banger of a soundtrack and some really cool exploits that make it less of a chore to deal with sometimes. It's certainly a much better game than TM3.. *shudders*

As a kid, every game that released, I would wish for a playable driver Calypso... and one day, the gnarled finger of a monkey's paw curled. Still, while I agree with basically everything people say about TM4, especially looking back as an adult... I just can't bring myself to hate the game. It probably brought me the most multiplayer memories of any game in the series.

That same Dragula remix also popped up in an EA snowmobile racing game I had as a kid called Sled Storm (the PS1 version, not the one EA Sports BIG made just a couple years later under the same name)

25:44 correction - the game IN fact gets more difficult when you load your finished save data after replaying the first stage on the finished save data. The AI will become more difficult every time you finish the game on the same save data which is known as loop. i reached loop 8 or something on the same save data and it became noticeably more difficult.

Referring to your comment about Rob Zombie's music not being in any games, "Dragula" was in some 989 studio snowmobile game on PS1

27:27 "I wish to see a weird clown mask guy on a unicycle!"

I think that if 4 didn't have such goofy characters, I would like it. It is such a turnoff for me personally that it makes me unable to want to play the game because I have no desire to play as anyone. Calypso is about the only one that is somewhat realistic, while the others seem ridiculous.

I remember liking 3 and 4 as a kid use too play these at a homies house in my neighborhood.. as a child we don't know any better of course.. even if they are trash now they were fun too play with friends

It does have difficulty settings. The start of a match where it sats rank, is the difficulty and every few maps it goes up. For that playthrough. So after you beat sweet tooth and it dumps you on map one is basically starting the game again on a higher difficulty. You have to play through like 5 continuous times to reach yhe highest difficulty and iirc your lives dont reset. And also it's only for that save.

I was looking for your review of this game last night and when I wake up you release it lol

I just found your channel a couple weeks ago. This is great stuff. I always enjoyed Twisted Metal 4 but that’s probably nostalgia talking. I even liked Minion’s Maze and I’m now positive that’s nostalgia talking.

The reason why TM4 is easy and doesn't have a difficulty setting is because of the rank you get after completing a level. There's 12 ranks with immortal being the highest, but also the ai doesn't really get difficulty until like the 8th rank and its mostly just their rate of fire and how often they spam the special meter abilities. It's dumb to be honest and they should of have a difficulty level you can set it too instead of have to replay through the game like 3 times as the same character/vehicle in order for the game to be a challenge.

If ST drove the Jones’s off the road to their death’s, does that mean that he also died in that ending and calypso can steal the ring off of his corpse and take over the tournament again?

So commenting before the video start. Four is my favorite, but I haven’t played any Twisted metal games in a long time despite owning 1-4, SB, and Black. It started with playing Tm3 first, someone as a kid managing to buy TM 1 and 2 later then the rest I own. But I don’t know why exactly TM4 is my favorite. It might have something to do with there are a lot of playable vehicles. You have the normal cast and then, the custom vehicle and then the bosses. And a good amount of stages too, the normal ones and the special ones.

Twisted Metal 4 isn’t canon but I enjoyed the video 😂 The only good things I can say about the game is the soundtrack slapped, Dragula as a playable vehicle, and the contestant/vehicle designs were neat. Also there’s a map generator and vehicle customizer. The maps were good too. Downsides: Rob Zombie didn’t voice himself and Calypso was ass to play as cause his rocket always shot upward. Maybe I just sucked with handling him. The cutscenes were cursed (like you said). The clowns were just…they existed. Fun fact: the version of Dragula used in the game is the same version used in the Matrix.

I remember TM4 being considered a huge comeback at the time. My friends and I all loved the larger levels and slightly improved physics