Since being announced at E3 2010, the team at EatSleepPlay have been hammering away at the next entry in Playstation’s longest running franchise, Twisted Metal. Originally, the game was supposed to be released in October, yet was delayed in order to refine the heavily tested game. It was given a new release date of February 14th 2012, better known as Valentine’s Day in the US. In addition, we saw the unveiling of three trailers featuring the story mode characters, Sweet Tooth, Doll Face, and Mr. Grimm. This was followed with the debut of the game’s official launch trailer (see below).
David Jaffe then came out to stop the Twitter war, with news of custom soundtracks, along with the addition of two veteran hip-hop artists to the game’s official soundtrack, which already included songs from the hard rock and metal genres. Hip-hop Gamer of ROG’s sister site HiphopGamershow.com also has a song featured in the game’s end credits called Get Twisted.
In ROG and Twisted Metal News, I recently won David Jaffe’s Twitter Song Contest for a signed Sweet Tooth doll or t-shirt. I chose the doll and received it a day after the game released. Check this link below for the song, “SWEET TOOTH IS BACK”.
Sony/SSM/EatSleepPlay has also teamed up with NOS Energy Drinksto give gamers a chance to customize their favorite vehicles in the game via downloadable vehicle skins. Simply buy a can of NOS from any local store, redeem the code, and you will get the skins (and access to an online skin editor or UGC).
Jaffe also launched a bold marketing campaign called shootmytruck.com. Some lucky fans got to control real machine guns remotely, allowing them to shoot up Sweet Tooth’s ice cream truck two days out from the game’s launch date.
After launch some players experienced problems connecting to online servers. David Jaffe responded with a series of updates detailing the steps both Sony and his team were taking to resolve the issues. Updates also included information on the UGC/Skin Editor. Here is the latest one below.