Twisted Metal is a 2012 vehicular combat video game developed by Eat Sleep Play and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.
Formerly known as Marcus Kane, a family man working out of an ice cream truck, he developed dissociative identity disorder and became possessed by his dark side, embodied in his clown mask.
After slaughtering his own family, Sweet Tooth became obsessed with finding "the one that got away", revealed to be his daughter Sophie, to finish the job he started years ago.
Frustrated, Sweet Tooth decides to enter the Twisted Metal contest, intent on having Calypso send him to wherever his daughter is hiding.
As a dying Grimm muses that he would've done the same thing if the roles were reversed, his body fades away, implying that the young boy will grow into the same future that his older self was trying to prevent.
As he swears in the name of God that he will stop Calypso, the camera pans out to reveal that he is imprisoned within a demonic structure, surrounded by hundreds of other tormented individuals.
After showing a few new items in the display case – Sweet Tooth's machete, the license plate from Daniel's father's truck, and Krista's doll mask – the building is shown from the outside, briefly flashing to its demonic form as the scene cuts to black.
Now that his father is dead, Charlie has come to claim his legacy; he digs up Sophie's coffin, containing both her and Sweet Tooth's remains, and retrieves the clown mask.
At the end of the credits, Calypso himself comes to Sophie's open grave, musing that she had great potential to cause pain and destruction.
Throwing a sack into the grave, he resurrects Sophie in an outfit similar to her father, seemingly to serve as his loyal enforcer.
[6] The game began development as a downloadable PlayStation Network title, similar to David Jaffe's previous Calling All Cars!
The development of the title then shifted from a PlayStation Network game to a "(USD)$39 product" which was multiplayer-only, similar to 2007's Warhawk and 2008's SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Confrontation.
The announcement, not officially confirmed by Sony, came from a hidden message that was decoded in the Twisted Metal: Head-On "Dark Past" documentary where groups of numbers appeared on screen at points during the video which corresponded to letters of the alphabet.
The title of the game is believed to have been displayed various times throughout the documentary which is the original Twisted Metal logo but in colors of rustic browns and yellows.
[12] At the very end of Sony's E3 2010 press conference, a surprise live-action teaser trailer was shown, with no previous indication as to what it was, that revealed a new Twisted Metal game.
[13] After the press conference, a blog post went up on the official PlayStation web site by Jaffe explaining why he had outright lied about the existence of Twisted Metal for PS3 and Eat Sleep Play's involvement.
[15] For marketing considerations, the original release date of the game was pushed back to apply some "extra time, polish, and love".
In addition, Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe asked fans to help pick what goes on the back of the box by voting for one of a number of choices.
[17] In addition, every copy of Twisted Metal included a voucher to download the Sweet Tooth Outcast multiplayer skin for Starhawk.