THIS was what everyone was saying was so bad???? The beginning of the series decline?? The game that the creator of the series said isn't a good twisted metal game??? Maybe I'm not as sensitive to the differences as the real twistedtaku out there but this felt just as much as twisted metal as the first two games did. The physics were a bit on the floaty side which makes cars flip over more easily and the AI still likes to frustratingly gang up on you while fleeing to take all the health power ups, but those really aren't huge dealbreakers IMO. I went in expecting 989 studios to have absolutely messed up everything only to find the core gameplay was honestly rather still intact, just a bit rougher around the edges, and honestly I find that really impressive considering this game was apparently made from SCRATCH in only 9 months.