PlayStation’s not too long ago cancelled Twisted Metallic recreation was reportedly a battle royale.
As noticed by MP1st, the deserted recreation – recognized internally as Undertaking Copper – allegedly blended third-person capturing mechanics alongside the vehicular fight the collection is understood for.
How do we all know this? A UI programmer working at Firesprite from April 2022 to October 2023 has uploaded obscured screenshots from the work-in-progress to their portfolio. While the sport is not explicitly talked about and the photographs are blurred, you possibly can nonetheless nonetheless see early prototypes of the third-person motion each out and in of automobiles.
“I used to be a part of Undertaking Copper main the UI crew,” the developer wrote on their on-line portfolio. “I used to be tasked with making a generic UI system for use in a number of tasks within the firm, I used to be additionally managing a crew of two UI Programmers whereas working with different groups.”
As for the sport itself? The dev describes Undertaking Copper a “third individual vehicular motion fight recreation based mostly on a basic IP owned by PlayStation developed by Firesprite (PlayStation Studios)”.
“It had third individual shooter mechanics wrapped with third individual automobile fight with the target of being the final one standing,” they added.
Again in February 2022, Sony acknowledged it aimed to launch over 10 new reside service video games over the approaching years. A month later, then-Sony exec Jim Ryan mentioned he believed reside service video games have been a key a part of gaming’s future, assured in PlayStation’s reside service push.
Nevertheless, since then, the corporate has been pulling again on this imaginative and prescient, with a number of proposed tasks cancelled, together with two extra in January.
In associated information, simply final week, Peacock shared its first trailer for the second season of Twisted Metallic. The upcoming second collection stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Seanoa, Will Arnett and Anthony Carrigan.
“As they attempt to survive an onslaught of harmful new foes and acquainted faces alike, together with the murderous clown Candy Tooth, issues get sophisticated for John when he reunites along with his long-lost sister, the vigilante Dollface,” reads the official blurb.
