Originally Posted by
Cipher
^That's a pretty good representation yes! ^^
Forces is most likely the way they went, because they probably didn't have fancy "physics materials", but also because they had to make it work on a console, which is very strict on resource management, especially back then, even if they had something like physics materials, there would be too much clutter code they don't need taking up performance, physics/ forces translated into gaming isn't so hard to grasp, should get a course on it if you're really interested, you'll learn a lot ^^
Cipher