One of this year’s most anticipated PS3 offerings, Twisted Metal, has been blessed with a revised European launch date of March 7, 2012. This game will be released in North America on February 14. But earlier this month, it had come to light that its European counterpart will see a delay owing to some changes needed to be made in its gameplay as well as cutscenes.
David Jaffe, the director of this title has revealed the new launch date through his official Twitter page. On February 2, in a statement to NeoGaf, he had disclosed the exact reasons for this delay, most of them being due to censorship differences in North American and European regions. He has also assured audiences that 99 percent of the cuts that have been introduced to the European version are part of the cutscenes, with very little being altered in the gameplay.
“Only a few content cuts for the game – for example, I think the guy on the gurney from Meat Wagon is dead so you are exploding a corpse covered with TNT vs. a screaming man trapped to the gurney. Sucks on my end but at the same time, I get it and the gameplay isn’t different and the intent is still there, as is the humor. In some ways, it’s actually much more macabre when you think about it. Shooting a dude screaming out the back of an ambulance is pretty stupid and fun and cartoony in a dark, twisted way,” David Jaffe, told the forum.
This title’s demo is out now on PSN, offering gamers a chance to experience its multiplayer features. The first copies of the title are all set to be shipped with download codes for Twisted Metal: Black. Moreover, its North American version would also come bundled with a voucher code for a DLC of Starhawk 2 which would infuse the latter game with The Sweet Tooth Outcast Multiplayer skin.
Twisted Metal will be released for the PS3 in Europe on March 7, with a price tag of 49.99 Euros (approx. Rs. 2,450).