New Twisted Metal Game Reportedly In Production At Lucid Games
Destruction AllStars dev is supposedly building the game around a free-to-play model.
A TV series based on popular early PlayStation car-combat franchise Twisted Metal has been in the works for some time, so it's only natural that a new installment of the game would also be on tap. The last release in the series was the remake of Twisted Metal: Black, which came out for the PlayStation 4 in 2015, and if reports are true, we'll see a totally new game in the not-too-distant future.
Video Game Chronicle is reporting that Liverpool studio Lucid Games has been tapped by Sony to produce a new Twisted Metal game, and that the game has begun early development. There's no time frame for a launch, but the series, which will star Anthony Mackie, Marvel's Falcon, is slated to appear in 2023.
Notably, VGC's source claims that the new Twisted Metal "would be built around a free-to-play model, partly in response to Destruction All-Stars’ last-minute transition from a premium game to a PlayStation Plus title." That car-combat title was released by Lucid in February, where it was met with middling reviews (62 on Metacritic).
In any event, the notion of a brand-new Twisted Metal game -- the last was produced in 2012 -- built for current online gamers and with a free-to-play model is something that has us intrigued. Personally, I played the heck out of the first two games on my PlayStation in the late '90s and would love to see a fully modern MMO-like edition with all the bells and whistles (and guns and rockets and lasers...). How would that sound to you?
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