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Contents 1 This article is a bit lavish in its praise 2 Individual Games 3 Twisted Metal: Get Him 4 Twisted Metal 3 and 4 5 Character/Location Page 6 Dragula 7 Question about TM3's Music 8 Black is missing

[edit] This article is a bit lavish in its praise

This article is a bit lavish in its praise. Certainly a significant game franchise, but the article needs some toning down. --CVaneg 23:41, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There's no praise from the author, only stating whether a certain game was or wasn't a hit with critics and fans.

The author does not have to state a direct opinion for an article to be considered non-NPOV. The article only has to be written in such a way as to present a particular point of view (in this case it seems the point of view is that Twisted Metal is one of the best game franchises of any platform). I've already edited the overview, which I thought was a bit much, and I don't really think that

In addition to this fanfare, Twisted Metal 2 is also regarded as a PlayStation classic and almost always makes the list whenever the gaming media compiles some sort of "20 Best PlayStation Games" list.

is a good sentence either. It would be far better to say (Magazine X, Magazine Y, and Magazine Z all ranked Twisted Metal 2 as one of their Best Playstation Games of all time). Anyway, in general, this article feels more like a game review than an unbiased encyclopedia article. --CVaneg 00:14, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Individual Games

Is there any specific reason why the pages for all of the individual Twisted Metal games (except Twisted Metal: Head On) just redirect to this page? I would think that they are all noteworthy enough to have their own pages separate from this one. - Hihihi 01:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, Twisted Metal 1 and 2 comprise the series' canon and must be studied within the series as a whole (not to mention that TM1 was not famous enough), Twisted Metal 3 and 4 surely don't deserve separate pages, just mentions of what changed from TM2. Small Brawl too. And the current games (Black, Head-On) have separate pages. --kAtremer 08:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twisted Metal: Get Him

What is Twisted Metal: Get Him? It was listed as the main article to TM: Head-On, I changed it to the real article. --kAtremer 08:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twisted Metal 3 and 4

It says in the article that 3 and 4 became best sellers . . . can some get a citation for this because I've never heard that before (and I have a hard time believing it).

Both games made it to Sony's Greatest Hits line of PlayStation games, which, as far as I can remember, require sales of 500,000 copies. It wouldn't surprise me if TM3 and TM4 sold well based only on the name recognition.

My copy of TM3 has a green edge. Greatest Hits. Gopherbassist 04:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Character/Location Page

This article is very cluttered. I propose to move all the characters from this page onto one of their own and just create a box for them here. The same goes for the locations page as well. If no objection is made within by Friday, I will go ahead with my action.

5/29/06, I started a new Twisted Metal Characters page.

Wouldn't it be better to create separate pages for TM1 and 2 (as it is for Black and Head-On now) and list their characters there along with locations and music/graphics details, call this article Twisted Metal Series and give only general info here? I suppose TM characters are of little value separated from the game info. --kAtremer 08:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I belive that the age of the games makes then hard to create there own page because of lack of information. At the same time, the character page shows off how the vehicles were used differently and kept in canon or had continual story lines. Also, I plan to change to page name from Twisted Metal Characters to The Cars and Characters of Twisted Metal, becuase of how both parties ahve evolved as the series went on.

I don't understand what do you mean "lack of information" - see the games, that's all. TMAlliance documents them in detail, somebody even noticed music in TM3&4. Anyway, your effort seems to be more appropriate for a separate site, which Wikipedia could use as a reference (if you don't use Wikipedia as a reference). --kAtremer 06:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dragula

The song is listed as the "Dragula Matrix Mix" but this game came out before the Matrix and the mix is actually called the "Hot Rod Herman" Mix so I'm going to rename it.--67.181.131.193 20:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, that version was written specificly for The Matrix. Even if the game came out beforehand, it doesn't change the reason why it was written.

[edit] Question about TM3's Music

I owned TM3 when it came out and all (I believe I had the Greatest Hits version) and I remember a Rob Zombie song was in the first level. Now, being something of a Zombie fan myself, I'm curious as to which song, exactly, this was, and Wiki doesn't seem to list it. So if anybody can tell me which song this was, I'd be appreciative. Onslaught Six 22:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It was called "Meet the Creeper" and is also featured on the Hellbilly Deluxe album.

There's more than just Meet the creeper on that game... Meet the Creeper plays during the Opening video... Not during the first level... I can't find the name for that one...--Biggman15 19:01, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

i've been trying to find the music list so i can put it on my computer right but i've only got 2, 3, 4, and 9 (where track 1 in game info and not playable) here's my list:

2) Superbeast - Rob Zombie - Hillbilly Duluxe 3) Microwaved - Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com 4) W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G - Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com 5) unknown 6) unknown 7) unknown 8) unknown 9) Meet the Creeper - Rob Zombie - Hillbilly Duluxe

--Ace the bunny 15:34, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Black is missing

The article goes straight from TM4 to TM:SB.

An anonymous user removed it July 17 and nobody noticed. I added it back in. Ace of Sevens 22:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)