PS5’s now-cancelled Twisted Metal reboot was a battle royale game featuring third-person shooter mechanics, according to the CV of a developer.
Sony reportedly cancelled the Twisted Metal live service game, which was in development at British studio Firesprite, as part of a huge round of company-wide layoffs last year.
VGC reportedin 2022 that the Twisted Metal reboot was in active development at Firespriteafterit moved from original developer Lucid Games. It’s understood thatSonyoriginally intended to bring back the vehicular combat game series to coincide with theTwisted Metal TV series, whichlaunched in 2023.
Now, the first alleged details of Firesprite’s reboot have appeared online, as part of a developer’s online CV.
While the developer does not mention Twisted Metal directly, they refer to a Firesprite project known as ‘Project Copper’, described as “a 3rd person vehicular action combat game” based on “a classic IP owned byPlayStation”.
According to the description, the game “had 3rd person shooter mechanics wrapped with 3rd person vehicle combat with the objective of being the last one standing.” The developer alsouploadedblurred images of the game, showing third-person shooting.
Firesprite, which was established in 2012 by former members of SIE Studio Liverpool after it was closed down by Sony,was acquired by the platform holder in 2021. It went on create 2023’s PS VR2 title Horizon Call of The Mountain.
Sony had ambitious plans to release 12 live service gamesonPS5by 2026, but canceled half of them after itexperienced significant teething problems, includingcanceling a Last of Us multiplayer gameandpulling Concord from sale after just two weeks. Its biggest success, by far, isHelldivers 2, which since launching in May last year, hasbecome PlayStation’s fastest-selling game launch ever.
Earlier this year,Sony reportedly cancelled two unannounced live service PlayStation games, one of which is believed to have been aGod of Wargame.
Speaking following his departure from SIE last month, former PlayStation studios bossShuhei Yoshida said he would’ve resisted Sony’s push into live service games, was he still in charge at the platform holder.
