Suburbs was a level from the cancelled Twisted Metal: Harbor City. A reduced version of this level would later appear as Suburban Terror in Twisted Metal: Lost.
Description[]
The original Suburbs featured a lot more to explore than what was shown in the Lost version. All of the walls that were placed around the roads did not exist, allowing the player to go off them and destroy the various houses of the Suburbs.
Connecting Areas[]
October 8th, 2004 Map[]
Connections to the Suburbs as seen in an early concept map from October 8th 2004.
The early idea for the level from Harbor City as seen in an early concept map was to have a highway going through it with routes to the south and the north. The southern route leading to the Railyard, and the northern route to the Freeway. It also had a path connecting it to Scenter.
August 11th, 2005 Build[]
TRANS_3. The transition to Railyard.
Suburbs and TRANS_11 (the transition route to the Freeway). They no longer connect.
In the build that the Suburbs is available on, which is the latest one, the highway mentioned previously still exists, and it does still connect to the Railyard. However, due to the complete redesign that Suburbs received, it no longer properly connects with Freeway.
TRANS_2. Early transition that connected Scenter and Suburbs, now completely detached.
Suburbs also lost the route which led to Scenter, with the route being left in the void far away from the main model, indicating that Suburbs' redesign also included a size reduction of the level.
SUBBAR_1. Credit to Mad Agus.
There is also a transition named "SUBBAR_1" that is supposed to load with the level, but doesn't without modifications, normally leaving the level with an empty void. If one of the transitions is replaced with it, it shows up in place of the void. It is the outside of a bar with a red square that if driven into makes the player go on-foot as Sweet Tooth. However, no bar loads inside, as the Bar level was cut and is not found in the files of this build.
Trivia[]
- For much of the Suburbs' development, the level took place in the daytime. Around the period of the latest build it was changed to night.
Gallery[]
August 11th, 2005 build[]
Concept Art[]
