Twisted Metal

December 8, 2023

Peacock Renews Twisted Metal For Second Season

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One of the many, many surprises of last night’s Game Awards was Anthony Mackie, star of Peacock’s Twisted Metal TV series, walking onstage and confirming a second season of the show after performing a weird act where he pointed and made random noises at various crowd members. We didn’t get what that was about, but more TM is fine with us. Twisted Metal premiered last summer with a first season of ten episodes. The show follows John Doe (Mackie), a hotshot delivery boy in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in walled-off cities to protect themselves from the maniacs roaming the wastelands (like this one nut in a clown mask). John is promised residency in one of the cities if he can pull off a tricky delivery run — this is a lie, but he doesn’t know. He meets Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), a woman on a mission of revenge, who at first resembles her namesake but eventually is anything BUT quiet. The show is based loosely on the car combat

July 10, 2023

Full Twisted Metal Trailer Reveals A Goofy Apocalypse

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Sony has been lending their IPs out for film and television projects, with varying results. The Last Of Us show on HBO was an instant classic. The Uncharted movie came and went, and I can’t remember if their Gran Turismo film has been released or not (which isn’t a good sign). Twisted Metal, however, is a brand Sony has done nothing with for over a decade, so what does the recognition buy you? Peacock just released the full trailer for the Twisted Metal TV series that premieres later this month. Anyone hoping for the TV adaptation to be a “dark and gritty” experience will probably be weeping into their pillowcases after seeing this. Every scene in the trailer is a joke; every situation is punctuated by a wisecrack or two. But in this reporter’s opinion, that’s fine. We already have the gritty apocalypse show based on a Sony game, and it can’t be improved upon. It makes sense for Twisted Metal to go in the opposite direction. Besides, the mascot

April 28, 2023

Twisted Metal TV Series Coming To Peacock In July

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From the wildly successful (The Last Of Us) to the critical bombs (Uncharted), Sony’s planning to make Hollywood adaptions of ALL its video games — even the ones it hasn’t done anything with in way too long. You won’t be getting a new Twisted Metal video game anytime soon, but there WILL be a live-action TV series. You’ll just have to take that, or break out the old PS1, whichever. Car combat games aren’t known for their deep narratives, but there’s a sincere attempt to weave one out of the premise. A man who simply goes by “John Doe” has been given a mission: deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He doesn’t get far in his journey before he runs into an axe-wielding thief who calls herself Quiet (yet probably isn’t quiet at all) and the mismatched pair has to face down plenty of weaponized cars, including the iconic ice cream truck driven by the series’ mascot, Sweet Tooth the Clown. Twisted Metal stars Anthony Mackie (Falcon and

April 29, 2012

Four New Twisted Metal Original Endings

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Two brand-new Twisted Metal videos have been released, showing off four different unreleased endings for Dollface and Preacher.

February 17, 2012

Review: Twisted Metal

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My love affair with Twisted Metal began in the 90’s with the original title developed by SingleTrac and David Jaffe long before his God of War fame. As a child I found the game to be pretty difficult and the AI quite punishing, but the colorful characters, fun gameplay and sheer personality of the title completely ensnared me nonetheless. As years went by the series became a bit of a mess far as quality goes, with high points like Twisted Metal 2 and Black standing alongside abysmal lows like Twisted Metal 4 and Small Brawl.

February 14, 2012

Twisted Metal Makes an Explosive Return this Valentine’s Day Exclusively on the PlayStation 3

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Longest Running PlayStation Franchise Makes First Appearance on the PS3 System with New Vehicles, Weapons, Environments, and Robust Multiplayer Features

February 12, 2012