Twisted Metal European Release Date Confirmed
SCEE delayed due to request for content cuts.
So Eat.Sleep.Play's PS3 iteration of Twisted Metal won't be arriving in time for Valentine's Day. So when the bally heck is it going to arrive? March 7th in Europe, according to series co-creator David Jaffe.
The game was held back in the continent because Sony had asked the studio to make some content cuts for European censors. At first, he was all like, "F*** no," as he writes on the NeoGAF forum. But then he relented. "But it ain't my game (Sony owns the IP and funded it) and certain countries have - obviously - much stricter guidelines.
"99 per cent of the cuts were in the movies and the movies are still intact and I sat with the editor – who was the same editor of the American movies – and we went thru and addressed the notes from Europe and made sure the stories still worked," Jaffe wrote.
"There have not been that many cuts. For example, in the scene we've released on the net from the intro – where the girl stabs Tooth in the eye – the SCEE version has this but we cut away right before the scissors make contact with Tooth's face.
"It's clear what she's doing and I think we even keep the sound effects in and such, but the last few frames are gone. The story itself though totally works and – for some folks even who tend to think this kinda stuff plays better left to your imagination anyway – perhaps it even works better."
Well I don't know yet, does it? Judge for yourself when the game arrives in March.
The game was held back in the continent because Sony had asked the studio to make some content cuts for European censors. At first, he was all like, "F*** no," as he writes on the NeoGAF forum. But then he relented. "But it ain't my game (Sony owns the IP and funded it) and certain countries have - obviously - much stricter guidelines.
"99 per cent of the cuts were in the movies and the movies are still intact and I sat with the editor – who was the same editor of the American movies – and we went thru and addressed the notes from Europe and made sure the stories still worked," Jaffe wrote.
"There have not been that many cuts. For example, in the scene we've released on the net from the intro – where the girl stabs Tooth in the eye – the SCEE version has this but we cut away right before the scissors make contact with Tooth's face.
"It's clear what she's doing and I think we even keep the sound effects in and such, but the last few frames are gone. The story itself though totally works and – for some folks even who tend to think this kinda stuff plays better left to your imagination anyway – perhaps it even works better."
Well I don't know yet, does it? Judge for yourself when the game arrives in March.
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