The unannounced Twisted Metal reboot was apparently a battle royale game that sounds an awful lot like Sony's other failed vehicular combat game Destruction All Stars. Alongside layoffs that affected roughly 900 employees last year,

Twisted Metal battle royale does make sense. Thanks to the portfolio of a lead UI programmer who worked at Firesprite, one of many Sony-owned studios hit by layoffs in 2024, we know that the Twisted Metal game the studio was working on was "a 3rd person vehicular action combat game" that had "3rd person shooter mechanics wrapped with 3rd person vehicle combat with the objective of being the last one standing.

The cancelled Twisted Metal game was a live service battle royale, which allowed for third-person out-of-vehicle combat per screenshots.

PS5’s now-cancelled Twisted Metal reboot was a battle royale game featuring third-person shooter mechanics, according to the CV of a developer. Sony reportedly cancelled the Twisted Metal live service game, which was in development at British studio Firesprite, as part of a huge round of company-wide layoffs last year.

Brand new images of Sony's canceled Twisted Metal game have popped up online, hinting that developer Firesprite was making a live service that blended the series' signature vehicular combat with battle royale mechanics.