The aesthetic was super grimy and desaturated, and the characters were all lost souls in a mental asylum who joined the tournament to seek redemption in some way. TM: B turned out to be much darker and more, well, twisted (for lack of a better term) than the previous entries.
RELATED: Spew Grit: 15 NEEDLESSLY Gritty Comic Book Reboots Under that banner, they released Twisted Metal: Black, garnering critical acclaim and commercial success for overhauling the entire design and story. Afterward, former members of the now-defunct SingleTrac development team (which had gone out of business in 2000) came together to form Incognito Entertainment. While the aforementioned developer SingleTrac had made the first two games, the third and fourth entries were developed by 989 Studios.to lukewarm results. It was the first TM game to be released for the PS2. Twisted Metal: Black, the fifth title in the series, came out in 2001.
