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Twisted Metal: Apocalypse is an early aborted idea for a PlayStation 3 title that eventually became Twisted Metal (2012). It was to feature a post-apocalyptic environment dominated by Calypso's tournament.
Description[]
The game was to take place in a Mad Max-style post apocalyptic environment, but there isn't much info on the idea besides that. A few images were shown off in a panel from Comic-Con 2010.
An actual story was never officially established, and endings most likely never existed due to those elements often being the last thing the developers work on in a Twisted Metal game.
In an interview, Scott Campbell mentions that remnants of this idea can still be seen in the city level shown in the Nuke Mode trailer from E3 (Diesel City): "On the apocalypse front, we never really had full-blown apocalypse, but there are some elements that you’ll find in the city level. Not full-blown apocalyptic, but there is some definite deterioration that you see in the city that sort of could be construed as apocalyptic."[1]
The game was eventually turned into the 2012 title. David Jaffe mentioned on his blog that the Apocalypse idea was dropped due to Scott Campbell not liking it.[2] However, in the Comic-Con 2010 panel, Jaffe retracts that statement, and says that he wasn't sure why the idea was dropped. Years later in an interview conducted by channel GhenryPerez, Jaffe says that it was dropped due to the developers, particularly Scott Campbell once again, thinking that a world that was already destroyed didn't fit the series; as in previous games, the player is the one destroying the world.[3]
Trivia[]
- Some car designs from Twisted Metal: Head-On appear in the game's concept art. This has happened in previous games, such as Twisted Metal (1995) cars being used as placeholders in concept art from Twisted Metal 2; as well as Twisted Metal: Black cars being used in art from Small Brawl, Head-On and Harbor City.
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![Mt. Rushmore concept art.[4]](/wiki/File:Tm_rushmore.jpg "Tm rushmore.jpg (71 KB)")
![Crater level concept art.[4]](/wiki/File:500x_tm_apocalypse.jpg "500x tm apocalypse.jpg (53 KB)")
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References[]
- ↑ https://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/12/15/david-jaffe-and-scott-campbell-talk-twisted-metal.aspx
- ↑ http://criminalcrackdown.blogspot.com/2010/07/twisted-metal-apocalypse.html
- ↑ https://youtu.be/HxB25JUSXqg?si=MWd9UGdWojm-Ookd&t=6377
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2010/07/25/twisted-metal-apocalypse-images-survived-the-cataclysm/