The Twisted Metal Knockoff Collection | Bottom Of The Barrel Edition 

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a_vBXfOpX24.html Click here to watch the first Twisted Metal Knockoffs Collection, which includes such games as both Vigilante 8 games, WWE Crush Hour, Critical Depth, and Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012.

The reason Interstate '76 plays like it does and why it's so mechanically dense is because it was made on a highly-modified MechWarrior 2 engine (a mech combat sim game where you pilot giant robots and can customize them to your heart's content), that's why it stands out so much from other car combat games X3

Crashday is the textbook definition of a passion project. For the most part it was developed by only 2 people over 8 years, and the project started in 1998 when they where 14 and in School. To me it still feels wild that they managed to get this thing released with full Retail packaging, somehow get a cult following out of just about 250.000 sold Retail copies (probably mostly in Germany where it ws developed) and then have it re-released on Steam a decade later.

Perfect timing, work says I need to wait an hour before clocking in because it's slow.

46:57 I nearly spit my drink out, Grin went bankrupt in 2009, but they rebranded as OVERKILL Software in 2010, most well known for Payday: The Heist and Payday 2, I play both of these games a lot and it’s weird to think about how they made other games before the Payday duology

I played Battletanx on the 64 and the multiplayer was great as kids. Great memories.

I don't know why but back when I had a new PS2, Motor Mayhem was practically being given away. I saw it everywhere for under $10. For that price, it was an absolute steal, really enjoyed it.

First you played Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense. Then you played Interstate '76. However... there's another game in the franchise. A direct sequel to Interstate '76 called Interstate '82, which takes place in the 80's. No idea if it's any good. Never played it. Only vaguely remember seeing reviews and ads for it in Gamepro magazine back in the day.

So cool that there is still a community for car combat in 2022 thanks for your efforts in the genre sir

I'm surprised the main character of Battle Tanks isn't wearing a fedora.

i got Interstate '76 as a Christmas present many years ago. initially, i only installed the Nitro Pack disc, which was a multiplayer/botmatch mode where you can pick any car listed, then customize the weapons into what slots they have. surprisingly, i defaulted to the Picard Piranha (not knowing it's what you use in the main game), since i loved how the speed and handling worked for me. after i got my preferred loadout going, i was wholly unstoppable in botmatches. no internet back then, so idk how the online scene was then after a few months of that, i popped in the other disc, which was the main game, and was pulled in by the story as you were. i had the same issue with that big jump and kept failing the mission over and over. until i saw that the car has a Nitrous Oxide tank in your HUD. after looking at controls and realizing the Nitro is tied to a specific button, i pressed that when needed, and it got me over the gap. no clue if you found that out or not in your attempts. if not, may give it a try and get past that stage

*THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS!* The TM series is one of my favorites. I had BattleTanx when I lived in the Marshall Islands and had a great time playing in the one on one matches with friends over beer and fresh coconut crab!

Interstate'76 is one of my childhood favorites. But I guess it's one of those old games that just run best on that eras architectures. Might try a VM or straight up vintage PC to play it proper.

Dead in the Water blew my little mind was a kid. The destructible environment and being able to "dig" into the map with enough missiles was way too fun.

A couple things to point out. 1. I love your style of video. You get straight into things and provide context for everything you talk about, which I greatly enjoy. Every time I come to your channel, I know what I'm gonna get and you hit it out of the park. 2. Thank you for giving some shine to a genre of game that has unfortunately gone by the wayside. I have undoubtedly spent literal months of my life on games like Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8. They hold a very special place in my heart, and I always love to see them be appreciated by other people. 3. For someone who signs off as "The King of Snark Style" (sick Nakamura ref.) you never come off as the terrible kind of snarky that puts things down for the sake of humor. All in all, your videos are incredible and I personally really appreciate the time and effort you put into everything. Keep on rocking on!

Motor Mayhem always has a soft spot in my heart for being one of the first games I got for the PS2.

the sci fi inclusion in batletanx global assault was the perfect opportunity to add interesting villains with weird powers like in twisted metal like tanks with electric attacks or telekinesis/magnetism

I absolutely did not expect CrashDay getting in there After discovering this game when I was 6 years old (around 2008-2009) and playing it since then - I just have to say that it truly shines in online. The 8 player Hold The Flag is truly a chaotic thing and it gives you real adrenaline rush when you finally take the flag and see, that half the lobby is approaching you from near the checkpoint you have to go in. And that's just the most popular mode - all other modes are also really fun when you have at least 3 other players! And by the way, The Stunt gamemode focuses on you not just taking big jumps, but making a big combo of stunts. When you land on 4 wheels your combo timer gets expanded so you have more time to refresh it. And by doing couple of successful landings you get maximum combo length and then can do huge jumps that will be WAAAY more profitable, because of, well, your combo. It just takes time and practice (and experimenting with maps's environments)

Fun fact: in regards to Battletanx, both commercials parody Snuggles the Bear from Downey (I think it’s Downey) where he’s chased and destroyed by a tank

My haven for vehicular combat game vids. Thanks for keeping them alive Bacon!

For what it is worth, many of us truly appreciate your hard work and dedication. Thank you.

Fun Fact about Bandits: The founders of grin alongside the composer of bandits, Simon Viklund, went on to found Overkill software, The developers of Payday. Payday along side sharing the Composer also shares the Engine with Bandits.

Twisted Metal Black comment: Was curious if you've seen the physical manual for the game because it's also Frank's (crazy8) diary. In between the manual stuff are his writings and I think he talks about living in the asylum, brief interactions with characters, writes about being in the competition and I think even reflecting before the final boss. I'm going off memory but I was very fascinated by it as more of the games world was even coming out of the manual along with how to play.

Have some fond memories of interstate 76, which led me to the vigilante 8 games, which I loved. I believe 76 had a sequel, Interstate 82? Which was even more obscure and hard to find information on.

How tf did I miss Dead In The Water?!?! Holy shit it looks sick!

It's absolutely insane how many unrelated game series were evolutions that branched off from Interstate 76. Vigilante 8, the Battlezone series, Star Trek Armada, and freaking Star Wars Battlefront all use parts of Interstate 76's engine and gameplay features.

in Interstate 76 you could open your save / car configuration file, and manually add weapons which you couldn't load in the game due to constraints. there is a tank cannon you could load on a car, but the car would be sluggish as hell. Well, using the notepad method i had 2 tank cannons on the roof and car ran smoothly. it was glorious

I absolutely loved motor mayhem! I played that so much back in the day. Good times

I honestly loved battletanx as a kid, I sucked at it and my uncle would always kick my ass but it was a lot of fun

this is wild cause i've suddenly had the urge to watch a lot of twisted metal related content recently

Gonna be honest, the cars a from Blood Drive and Smash and Survive could be ported to the Carmageddon universe with the proper changes. Though one objective has better automotive design than the other. Besides that, you killed it with the presentation and quality of this video!

Amazing video!! Thanks for the hard work, glad to hear you'll give yourself more rest going forward. The less stress, the better!

Something to take note of with Interstate '76 is that it was largely done by the same team who made MechWarrior 2, so it takes some more cues from that than it probably does from Twisted Metal. It also uses the same engine as MechWarrior 2, so some of the game's issues might stem from the fact that you have an engine that was designed to simulate bipedal mechs, and was then revamped to instead simulate cars. GOG is generally pretty good about getting old games to work , but they've never seemed to put any more work into getting I76 to run better. I've heard accounts where some people got it to run okay, while other people couldn't. I've seen various community fixes for it, like the framerate patch you used, an alternate installer, as well as tweaks you can make to you system to help (stopping explorer.exe while the game's running, throttling your CPU, etc.), and while that can improve things drastically, it apparently still ends up being kind of wonky. It's just not a game that plays well with modern operating systems. I was told by someone recently that the game works great in PCem, but that's getting into the area of virtual machines, which take some work in getting set up.

Battletanx and Battletanx: GA on the N64 (I played GA first and never played the PS1 version) are what I had. Twisted Metal: Black was the first Twisted Metal game I played and my feelings were that they were actually very similar in their respective genres. Both games allowed you to turn in place (even though it didn't make sense for cars), both games you had to face your opponent because you aimed and moved with the same analog stick (even though it didn't make sense for tanks), both games had many different powerups and tanks/cars that when combined in different ways made up for different strategies. Like in Battletanx when in the mototank you could use swarm missles instead of you primary machine guns to make up for the very fast tanks lack of firepower. One comparison that you didn't make is that whereas twisted metal has a wild cast of different drivers, battle tanx has a wild cast of different gangs, and I feel like Twisted Metal 2012 tried to do something very similar when they made the decision to use factions for the multiplayer focused game instead of the traditional drivers of the past. I always wondered what it would be like if battle tanx made a game with a story progression style like twisted metal, where you choose a gang to play as and they all have their own little story and war goal that they fulfill when they win. And what about Twisted Metal? What if Twisted Metal 2012 had had many more factions, and had decided to do the same thing, when Santa Monica studios were told that needed to add a single player to Twisted Metal 2012 they just assumed that they had to try and do what they had always done before, focus on the individual drivers. But what if instead you played as the factions even in single player they could have adapted the faction idea into single player because they already knew they didn't have the ability to satisfactorily do both the faction multiplayer, and a more classic on brand Twisted Metal singleplayer.

“and just come up from behind and start pounding them” -Tactical Bacon Productions, 2022

Another solid video from TBP, I remember seeing I76 but never played it. I kinda want to try and get it working.

I kinda want to see some of these characters as a guest character in Twisted Metal, competing to wish that Twisted Metal's popularity was given to the character's original game

57:25 People aren't complaining about Teen Titans Go just because it's not their cup of tea. They're complaining because 1) Shows like the original Teen Titans have completely vanished from network TV. 2) Nearly every day on CN became a virtual Teen Titans Go marathon while other new shows were shoved into an early grave as a result. 3) The show had the gall to mock people who complained about that.

Blood Drive and Smash and Survive make me feel like they're also a homage to Carmageddon. Now I wanna play Blood Drive.

WDL (World Destruction League) Thunder Tanks is another really fun tank battle game with selectable characters. WDL Thunder Tanks isn't under the same name but it is made by 3DO as well. I consider it the 3rd in the trilogy. I played that one A LOT! Great video and content! Love your channel!

Fun fact, the last time anything from Interstate '76 was brought up? True Crime: Streets of LA's PC port came later than the others, and aside from online multiplayer races, a bunch of skins for the campaign were included. Among those, and the reason I even bought the PC version, was a skin of Taurus, boxy model and all!

Ooohhh yeah this is amazing stuff! My goodness time has flown by since i was a lad. Great content!

The game i remember having that was decent that I havent seen covered is Full Auto 2: Battle Lines, but I was pumped to see Vigilante 8 on the last one. Great Vids!

There’s one relatively odd vehicular combat I notice, and that is the PSX Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds(PC version was a Real-Time Strategy) Essentially you control several vehicles which fit in with the turn of the 20th century aesthetic the game has and complete level objectives, there’s parts where you control a stationary gun, one on-rails level(and an on-rails section in the final level), a level where you control a submarine and have to evade enemies(but you have to surface to fire at them), you can also collect scrap to bring to factories(which requires you to collect a certain number of people running around the levels or something else to activate them) to build new vehicles, bridge pieces if the level require them, there’s no health pickups(except for the on-rails level and the submarine level) or ways to repair your vehicles, but if you get enough you should be able to overwhelm the Martians, that is if the vehicle isn’t useless as there is one that has no weapons

oh boy, Interstate 76 are my goat back then, I played a lot on my Pentium 133, good teenager memories. It has a sequel that I never been able to check out, and I love how the whole thing branches out on Vigilante 8 on playstation.

What a pleasant suprise to see Motor Meyham in a review line-up on RU-vid. I had almost forgotten about that game. I was the only kid in my family who was particularly interested in it.

Motor Mayhem was a spiritual successor to a couple of Beyond Games titles, Battlewheels on the Atari Lynx (a game I wanted to love but just couldn't get into) and Ultra Vortek for the Atari Jaguar (a fighting game with digitized graphics like Mortal Kombat, they carry over several characters like Volcana and Grok). I had both Battlewheels and Ultra Vortek when they came out, and vehicle combat games are my favorite game genre, so I knew I'd love Motor Mayhem. And I did - that railgun is such a satisfying weapon to use. It's a shame that there's not a bigger assortment of arenas to play in. I still think Midway's Roadkill (PS2, GameCube, Xbox) is the best vehicle combat game I've ever played. Although it's not really like Twisted Metal, it's more mission-based rather than arena combat.

I been waiting for this! Thank you

Interstate 76 had an expansion pack code Nitro Riders and it also had a sequel called Interstate 82 which gave birth to the Vigilante 8 games

Thanks for the video, King, it's been a treat. If you'll be in a mood for the bottom of the bottom of the barrel video, I have a suggestion - Ex Machina/Hard Truck Apocalypse (it's the same game, name differs due to region where it was released thing). Gameplay formula is pretty different from TM, but you covered Bandits and I76, nd it kinda feels like a mix between the two, and it had a pretty solid vehicular combat for the time game was released.

This video made me want to take a look at some of these games! Many of them I never even heard about before. I also didn't know the Battletanx franchise had such a story, that definitely cought me off guard.

I played the absolute shit out of interstate 76. Had no net, but loved exploring all the options and cars in nitro pack. Loved the army jeep with a turret. Made me feel like I was a possessed army gun from maximum overdrive.

I played the shit out of Global Assault and the GBC Battletanx as a kid. I enjoyed them a lot.

Holy crap, never heard of bandits but for an older game it looks quite good. The graphics and physics look like they hold up super well. That's some top notch visual design right there.

Used to love playing Battletanx growing up

Hey dude! Just wanna say I love your work. I'm expecting to see you get a significant amount of new subscribers by next year. Keep it up 👍

I had whatever Battletanx game was on N64 growing up and it was played probably more than any other game lol.

Battle Tanx was capture the flag with a woman being the flag. Very fun! I spent a lot of time playing multiplayer. At the time, my I had the first game and my friend had the second. I recall that the sequel’s gameplay was improved across the board.

My name is Calypso, and I thank you for having some f*cking standards. Also I just realized the plot BattleTanks is very similar to the premise of LISA: The Painful

Battle Tanks I’ll always remember for the parody commercial on the fabric softener bear.

Battletanx multi-player was amazing! So many great memories

Coming here from the other knockoff video thinking. Hmm I’m surprised dead in the water wasn’t on that list. And here it is Lolol awesome series.

It was pretty interesting seeing some names when Bandits: Phoenix Rising came up, you did mention that they made some Bionic Commando reboots, but the original founders of Grin (Bo and Ulf Andersson) actually did go on to create Overkill Software the same year Grin went defunct, best known for making the Payday series, kind of funny to think about how they basically started with a car combat game

Battletanx and global assault did in fact run a lot smoother on the 64 than in emulation. I think it was only sometime in the past handful of years where global assault went from about 10-15 fps emulated to 20-30. That was just my experience though. edit: also, the psx and n64 versions of the game are somewhat different. I grew up playing the 64 version, where obviously the texturing and modeling is slightly different, but there's also tanks that appear in the psx version that the 64 version doesn't have, like that mortar tank. I would suggest you trying the other version at some point if you haven't already.

A one hour bacon video. Yes please

Nice work ,friend..! In home i turn the repeat 2543 x for this video,i love your channel,essentially those Saga Videos! Thnx again!

I grew up with Battletanx: Global Assault on N64. Loved that game so much. But I'll admit without cheat codes it was hard as hell to beat.

MOTOR MAYHEM WAS MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD it actually had some amazing looking character designs and each of them having 3 different unique abilities made it really stand out. Never liked the aesthetics of Twisted Metal so I went to Motor Mayhem.

Love these videos. Some of these games were my jam when I was a teenage/twenty something yo PS1/2 playing pothead lol.

I have to say this before something stupid happens. Every time I find a good game analysis channel, either I'm late and it's basically dead, or it's re-re-reuploaded by some random channel with 50 subs. Keep up the good work TBP. I'm actually happy youtube recommend a good content creator for once.

With Motor Mayhem on Christmas Day if you play the game, or just set the date to Christmas, every character will have Santa Hats on.

1) I think the term with the most Neutral connotation in comparison to "knockoff" would probably be either "clone" or "-alike" 2) The spine just calls it "Motor Mayhem"; I even looked up the PAL version to see if it's any different There and nope, it's still just Motor Mayhem

OMG.... Motor Mayhem!!! I've been trying to find the name of that game for years!!! I remember borrowing it when I was a kid and I loved it.

Considering the trouble you had filling a video, I doubt you'll make another. But if you do you should definitely check out the old PC title called Bumper Wars. It's roughly the same era as Bandits Phoenix Rising. The premise of the game is essentially is convicts competing for freedom via weaponized bumper cars set on an alien planet thousands of years in the future. It's surprisingly solid.

Twitter was hot a month ago when they announced the Twisted Metal show had finished filming. Do we know anything about the game though? Any leaks yet on how its coming along?

I remember loving World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks when I was a kid. This video and the first one really made me think about how much I enjoyed playing it with my Dad and sister; I decided to look up the game and from what I've read it's quite bad. I'll always have fond memories, but it seems they should stay memories lol.

I know that you have covered lots of these games already but I have just found a game called 'Blaster Master: Blasting Again' that fits all the criteria, so if you are planning to make another twisted metal knock-offs video, that's my recommendation.

51:16, "Choo Choo"? What a name LOL

battletanx had a spin off game call WDL thunder tanks, played it a TON during my childhood and still love it today

I've never even played Twisted Metal but I can't stop watching anything related to them

I used to have a game known as Motorsiege: Warriors of Primetime. At the time I had this game, outside of Vigilante 8 2nd Offense and Rogue Trip on PS1, I had not much experience with car combat game (I was more into regular racing games at the time). Seeing footage of Motor Mayhem reminded me of Motorsiege. It's a very similar game. Consider reviewing this game in the future, although I remember Motorsiege being a very boring game. Otherwise, you did a good job at reviewing these games!

Awesome video and we really need a twisted metal game last time recall the last twisted metal game made was in 2012? I can't remember the name of it but sweet tooth had a transformer like vehicle!!

39:43 I would like to point out the 80s had a lot of werewolf movies and the 90s had a a lot of vampire movies, it was just the zombies turn.

"neckbeard, nice-guy manifesto" is a fantastic title

Your mileage definitely varies with PS2 emulation. Personally, I've NEVER had a game run tolerably well, much less as well as you showed, even though my mid-grade PC can emulate later consoles just fine. But that's just me.

Great list - I never played any of these. The only knockoffs I ever played were Rogue Trip and Vigilante 8.

U just triggered a memory with battle tanks global assault that shit was my whole childhood along with twisted metal. I loved the cutscenes

29:52, i saw that veredict coming from miles away LOL

Don't know if you noticed this about BattleTanx: Global Assault but on the 64 version if you have enough ammo (15ish for most) of any of the secondary weapons hitting A+B does a special move! My favorite is the Plasma Bolt special because it bathes the whole map in a sea of green death. Don't know what it would be on PS but I'm sure it's not hard to figure out, and it might ease the painful later levels like the Berlin Convoy.

A game that i never saw getting attention when talking about vehicular combat games is "Motorsiege : Warriors of Primetime" (PS2). I had fun playing it. Defenitly not the best game of this genre, but still fun.

Oh hey, didn't expect to see a Grin game on this. Company died a while ago, and now they're the guys behind Payday... Which is why it's running on a Racing game engine. Even kept the same composer

Came across your videos excellent by the way just made a retro gaming pc came across Crash Day not sure if you coverd it.

Sad that you didn't cover Destruction Derby 64. That was a really fun if simple and easy arcade car combat/racing game. A bit bare bones in content, sure, but extremely fun, and I have yet to find another plane jane destruction derby game that lets you smash into cars with Volkswagon Beetles, Taxi cabs, Hot Rods, and Ambulances.

Vangers would be a cool game for you to cover, its a top down car combat game with upgrades and interchangable car parts. also has a cool theme of it being like... bug people

For dead in the water, the useless items you combine them for special effects to be added to you. Also the flame and oil combine them to make sludge flame. I’ve learned a lot of this stuff playing the game as a youngster

I Remember playing Battletanx: Global Assault on the N64 the version you played looks like a very different game with even some new tanks I haven't seen before.

That Dead in the Water game reminds me of another similar game on the Xbox. It's called Blood Wake and it was TECHNICALLY my first vehicular combat game. I also remember nothing about it.

critical depth was an incredible game. it was far too complicated and had so many nuances that made it tough to enjoy. The huge arenas in 3d made combat rare

Can you make a tier list or ranking all the specials in the series from worst to best?

I played the N64 version of Battletanx GA and it’s a completely different game from the PS1. First off no video cutscenes (as you mentioned) and there wasn’t a mortar tank, instead it had a hover tank that was very hard to control. Playing as different factions with different available tanks was fun though.