Over the previous couple of years, Sony has made it fairly clear it needs its PlayStation video games to drag double responsibility as TV/film successes. To this point, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the current HBO adaptation of The Final of Us. However there’s a lot extra diversifications on the horizon (Zero Daybreak), from current blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to…Twisted Steel.
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 offer you an concept about what the present will probably be about, although: the footage is simply Anthony Mackie in a automotive and driving by 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 by the post-apocalypse. In some unspecified time in the future, 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 many 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 hooked up. The collection was well-liked again within the day and certainly one of PlayStation’s marquis franchises over time because of 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 completely clear what’s occurring on the sport facet 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 perhaps Sony will probably 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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