There has to be changes first. Darkside's special is useless. Make the little laser be able to freeze cars, like in the PC version. Put L1 and R1 for jump like in TMB. Why Mr. Slam doesn't always slam three times? I wouldn't mind a TM2 remake with online. There's no one hit kills that gives the middle finger to health bars and armor.

Luis wrote on 03/30/14 at 17:29:07:

Yeah Darkside's special is utterly useless, but his ramming coupled with the clipping issues made him one powerful vehicle.

I think that an R1+L1 jump feature would be great too.

I also think that there should be some weapon pick ups added to a few levels, or have them spawn a lot faster. Moscow suffered a lot from an overall lack of weapons and health.

Here's some stuff I've been working on to show you guys I was serious..It's pretty shabby so I am anticipating some negative feedback, but it's a work in progress. This map creation is a lot more detailed and tedious than I could ever imagine. I've been trying to get all the sizes relatively accurate from the original games so it's been time consuming. Here you will see a level in progress melding Arena, Warehouse District, River Park Rumble, both games Rooftop levels, and even a Rogue Trip level I am working on (San Fran). Check it out and tell me what you think. I'll have better stuff later.

This is an overview of the map and how I've laid out a few of the battlegrounds.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/bencrocker/1-1.png

Arena in progress.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/bencrocker/3.png

Rooftops. I had textures applied but removed them before I had to overhaul a bunch of stuff. This will probably end up overhauled again because of certain size ratio issues I've run into..but if you know TM1 and 2 you can see how I've melded the two levels together.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/bencrocker/4.png

The most complete section so far, my recreation of the Warehouse District level.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/bencrocker/2.png

Some more unfinished stuff in the distance, I laid out most of Cyburbia on the right and there is some pieces of River Park Rumble and a connecting Cyburbia tunnel on the left.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v343/bencrocker/5.png

Skywalker wrote on 04/15/14 at 23:47:50:

Thanks! It honestly looked better before when I had more textures laid down, but I actually had to redo a lot of the stuff I had already finished because it wasn't accurate to the original game. This means going in and counting textures piece by piece and trying to size them correctly in the Unreal Dev Kit. Pretty tedious, but I feel like in time it will be complete. The only thing that sucks is that the further I were to get in this project it would likely get shut down by the Sony big wigs. Oh well, labor of love.

If anyone can contribute vehicles similar to the original game I would love to work with you on something. I have no idea how to program either, but I suppose that would be further down the road. Right now I'm just trying to figure a way of combining the games in a reasonable manner. Looking to rip some Twisted Metal: Black textures maybe even to replace the ones I have. It gets very limited when you only have so many places to draw from but I'm actually thinking the shitty retro look of it might end up being appealing.

I questioned being true to the original texture layouts and trying improvise some things. The original Warehouse District is very ugly, but I like having the layout and connecting it to Arena so I was conflicted. What do you guys think?

Unfortunately, I think almost all of the tm 1 specials would need to be overhauled since most are the same, I think Darkside could be given her ram special from black and it would work fine. As for the others, Crimson Fury already has a special from head on and giving Yellow Jacket his molotov back and making it work like the roadkill special from TM3 would be good. Also it may be worthwhile to make pit viper' s special poison or slow down enemy cars plus home in like brimstone.

I also think it could be considered letting a newcomer or two in who are deserving, Junkyard Dog is the name that comes to mind for me. Please for the love of sweet tooth however, I just want them to give us all of the great classic cars we grew up with in one game like Spectre, Twister, Hammerhead, Yellow Jacket, Thumper and Mr. Slam, not forgettable junk like vermin and meat wagon and kamikaze who just stole the specials of the classics. Actually of the newcomers in tmx the only ones I liked were Juggernaut and Road Boat, and even those guys were kind of knock offs themselves. If a new tm of any kind arrives, I just want it done right so they put the favorites in first and not as scrapped Dlc- I will not rest until I see Hammerhead Mr. Slam and Darkside in the same game!!! Oh, and I'd like to see also the option to turn off the falling ice in Antarctica as I'm sure it is just a line of code that needs to be tweaked somewhere, plus opening all of New York in mp. Maybe put in London from TM3 and a level from Black like Rooftops as retro shout outs too?

I would love a hi res TM2, but the pc version looks a lot crisper already than the ps1 game. That plus the fact it supports 8 player online means we are already quite fortunate I think. I am hoping for an announcement of some kind during the 20th anniversary next year. Until then we have some great games like TMBO and TM2PC to keep us diehards satisfied

I would like to note that I hate Dollface, and I think Mr. Ash is such a more interesting character. On top of that, why go through the trouble of adding characters? I mean besides making Dark Tooth playable, and maybe TM 2 Darkside, I don't see a point in making low poly versions of new characters.

Also a TM 1+2 HD release would probably require little to no tweeking. The same characters from 1 and 2 could just switch textures/models. The TM 1 characters would just need some minor stat adjustments, and the TM1 levels would just need weapon pick-ups placed.

Like I've said before, the whole thing would probably just use TM 2 as a base. I feel like people over complicate such a simple HD conversion procedure. I feel that Sony can do this with minimal effort, and a solid payout.