Richard -Dick- Biggs
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In my case, the entire franchise is my favorite game, with the exception of TM3 and TM4, even though I played the heck out of the two games as a child (I found them easier than TM1 and 2, but as I grew I played them less and nowadays I barely play them).
The best game to me is between Black and 2. Black because of the graphics (mainly art style), world, characters, stories, overall preentation and of course the gameplay (wich has been talked to death in the TMA so I won't mention details). TM2 because all of the above too; you could say the graphics are awful nowadays, but I have a soft spot for early 3D graphics, you can see how everything is made and I like it all: the textures, the low poly models, the sprites, the "particle effects", etc.; and I find the graphics in TM3 awful because they made everything 3D and, for example, sprite weapon items look 1000x better than those plain 3d models 989 made. But what lets me more astonished about TM2 is the gameplay: how the cars drive, the different homing renges of the rockets, etc, etc. I can play it like it's 1996 because the game hasn't aged one tiny bit. I think that in terms of gameplay it is the game that has aged better from that year and the years before.
My next favorite game is TM 2012. Everytime I hear it mentioned I feel the need to play it. I love the huge maps and that each map can be segmented into smaller maps. I also like the newly introduced cars (sadly no characters). The gameplay is obviously inferior to Black, but I like that it is extremely fast-paced, colorful and the weapon selection is huge. I also LOVE flying vehicles in TM (I'm alone in this tho).
Then there's TM1 and Head-On. I probably like Head-On more in terms of gameplay, characters and art style (I really love colorful in TM), but the whole ambientation in TM1 is maybe my favorite from all games, it's grittier (I'm more than likely contradicting myself) and brownier, more urban and trashy (helped A LOT by it's graphics). It also has attacking peds.
The next is Small Brawl, wich I always thought had a different engine than TM2 (until now), it feels really different and for me it's better in TM2 (Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 is the BEST use of the engine). I still like it a lot, nice selection of vehicles and it's weird that it hadn't at least one vehicle from Black. Tree Top Rumble is my favorite level.
I like the levels, car selection (even with almost no previous vehicles) and some of the new weapons in TM4, even if some were more flashy than useful. I completely adore the ambientation and story (I can watch the intro video every time I play the game). The characters mostly sucked. The gameplay is deeply flawed. And I rather have a sountrack like in TM2 than a licensed one.
In TM3 you can't run off a cliff without turning down your car. And fuck the Mortar.
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