| cheese_man said: Is this game undertracked? 0.59 mil and 0.4 in EU, what the hell? Surely launch connection issues weren't the cause, as most people would assume it'd be fixed in a patch? |
Even at the height of its popularity, Twisted Metal was never a massive franchise. When car combat was fairly new and an extremely well received game came out (TM2 on PS1), it managed 2.4 million. Fast forward to PS2, and TM Black managed 1.4 million despite having almost universally good reviews.
So yeah. Just degredation of the genre and the franchise mixed in with some pretty middling reviews and bad word of mouth from the connection issues makes 0.6 million sound about right.
And about Europe - TM has never been big in Europe. We get censored games (TM Black cut out 90% of the cutscenes when it was released in Europe to comply with the German ratings board I believe) which just destroyed what little fanbase there was left. It's a shame, but it's always been a North American franchise.
