New Twisted Metal game coming to PS5 from Destruction AllStars studio

A new Twisted Metal activity is in early improvement at Destruction AllStars developer Lucid Video games, in accordance to a report from VGC. It would be the initial new Twisted Metallic match in a ten years — an attempt to reboot the sequence, under the identify Twisted Metal, was produced in 2012 on PlayStation 3.

VGC’s report signifies a absolutely free-to-engage in design for the new Twisted Metal, which has not been officially declared by Sony Interactive Leisure, but was earlier rumored to be in the functions.

Lucid Video games was founded in 2011 by previous personnel of Bizarre Creations, the previous Activision-owned studio acknowledged for the Challenge Gotham Racing game titles, The Club, and Blur. Lucid’s most modern games, Switchblade and Destruction AllStars — the latter arrived to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation Additionally in February — are all about vehicular overcome, producing the studio a purely natural match for Twisted Metal.

Twisted Metal’s revival aligns with Sony’s PlayStation Productions arm building a Tv sequence centered on the vehicle-battle franchise. Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are attached to adapt the online video match sequence as a live-action action comedy. The collection will follow a character named John Doe (performed by the new Captain The us, Anthony Mackie) who’s employed to have a package deal across a “post-apocalyptic wasteland” and will group up with a vehicle thief to provide the products. The duo will reportedly run into obstacles on their journey, which include Twisted Metal’s clown-faced, ice cream truck-driving mascot, Sweet Tooth.

The Twisted Steel franchise started on the primary PlayStation in 1995, foremost to 7 sequels and spinoffs.