PlayStation’s just lately cancelled Twisted Steel recreation was reportedly a battle royale.
As noticed by MP1st, the deserted recreation – identified internally as Venture Copper – allegedly blended third-person taking pictures mechanics alongside the vehicular fight the collection is thought 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 pictures are blurred, you may nonetheless nonetheless see early prototypes of the third-person motion each out and in of automobiles.
“I used to be a part of Venture 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 Venture Copper a “third particular person vehicular motion fight recreation primarily based on a basic IP owned by PlayStation developed by Firesprite (PlayStation Studios)”.
“It had third particular person shooter mechanics wrapped with third particular person automobile fight with the target of being the final one standing,” they added.
Again in February 2022, Sony said it aimed to launch over 10 new reside service video games over the approaching years. A month later, then-Sony exec Jim Ryan stated he believed reside service video games had been a key a part of gaming’s future, assured in PlayStation’s reside service push.
Nonetheless, 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 Steel. 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 difficult for John when he reunites along with his long-lost sister, the vigilante Dollface,” reads the official blurb.
