Over the previous couple of years, Sony has made it fairly clear it desires its PlayStation video games to drag double responsibility as TV/film successes. To date, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the latest HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. However there’s lots extra variations on the horizon (Zero Dawn), from latest blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to…Twisted Metal.
Simply earlier than the weekend began, Peacock launched the primary trailer for the present forward of its launch in late July. It doesn’t actually provide you with an concept about what the present shall be about, although: the footage is simply Anthony Mackie in a automotive and driving via an obvious battlefield, and there’s additionally an ice cream truck pushed by a man with a clown masks. The present’s premise sees Mackie enjoying an amnesiac milkman named John Doe, who’s tasked with driving a mysterious package deal via the post-apocalypse. Sooner or later, he’ll cross paths with Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), and the 2 will do automotive fight as they endeavor to get Doe’s package deal to the end line.
For individuals who didn’t have a PlayStation console rising up, Twisted Steel was a automotive fight collection that first began on the PlayStation 1 in 1995 from developer SingleTrac. The final premise throughout all of the video games is that contestants blow one another as much as amuse a reality-warping man (demigod?) named Calypso, and whoever’s left standing is granted a single want, however with some darkish twist connected. The collection was well-liked again within the day and one in every of PlayStation’s marquis franchises over time due to a number of sequels and spinoffs from different studios after SingleTrac closed down.
However Twisted Steel as a collection has been MIA ever for the reason that PlayStation 3’s 2012 reboot of the identical identify. The identical month the reboot got here out, Sony introduced its plans to show the collection right into a characteristic movie, which by no means got here to fruition. With this present on the horizon, it’s not totally clear what’s occurring on the sport aspect of issues; there was a rumor in early 2022 {that a} new installment was within the works from Horizon: Name of the Mountain developer Firesprite, one which the studio apparently took over from Motorstorm creator Lucid Video games. Nothing’s come of that, however possibly Sony shall be extra forthcoming when the present is nearer to the end line.
Additionally starring Neve Campbell, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe, and Will Arnett, Twisted Steel will premiere July 27 on Peacock.
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