Because of the portfolio of a lead UI programmer who labored at Firesprite, one among many Sony-owned studios hit by layoffs in 2024, we all know that the Twisted Metallic recreation the studio was engaged on was “a third particular person vehicular motion fight recreation” that had “third particular person shooter mechanics wrapped with third particular person automobile fight with the target of being the final one standing.” (Thanks, MP1st.) Certain seems like a battle royale recreation to me, although admittedly each Twisted Metallic recreation sounds kind of like a battle royale, despite the fact that the sequence predates the pattern.
You may see why Sony might need mentioned, “Hey, we have this factor that already resembles a well-liked style, let’s flip it into a type of after which roll round in all the cash for a bit.” It is more durable to see why it will embody out-of-the-vehicle motion, because the blurred-out screenshots on the programmer’s portfolio present. I can think about a Twisted Metallic recreation that permits you to hop out of the automotive if you would like, however solely so you’ll be able to instantly be run over by a clown in a monster truck.
Sony had beforehand declared its intention to launch 10 live-service video games by its 2025 fiscal yr, and presumably this Twisted Metallic battle royale was a part of that scheme. With the Twisted Metallic TV sequence doing fairly properly for itself (a second season is on the way in which), it positive could be a swell time to have a brand new recreation for folks to play. However then it will have been good for Bethesda to have the ability to direct followers of the Fallout present to one thing aside from Fallout 76, and that did not occur both.
