‘Twisted Metal’ fans give a collective shrug at new TV show sneak peek

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A sneak peek has arrived for the forthcoming Twisted Metal TV show — touted as an action-comedy — which will be debuting later this summer on the streaming platform Peacock.

The scene in question is the largest chunk of significant footage we’ve seen from the show, aside from an initial teaser trailer that didn’t reveal much of anything. Now, thanks to a clip of Twisted Metal debuting on Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, fans of the car-crashing game franchise finally have their first sense of what the tone of the show will be. Check out the clip for yourself, which was posted online via GameSpot’s official Twitter account.

Sweet Tooth and Anthony Mackie sing a 'Thong Song' duet in a new clip from the upcoming Twisted Metal series… #SummerGameFest pic.twitter.com/eEexjmS8Cz

The clip in question stars the show’s lead — Anthony Mackie — duking it out with Twisted Metal’s most iconic character, Sweet Tooth, voiced by Will Arnett. Oddly enough, the characters are not fighting each other with their cars in some kind of battle arena as you might expect. Instead, they are confronting each other in person in what appears to be a casino.

Now I’m not the biggest fan of the Twisted Metal franchise. I haven’t played the more mature-rated games that give more of a backstory to Sweet Tooth, such as Twisted Metal: Black or the Twisted Metal remake on the PlayStation 3. The only experience I really have of the franchise is Twisted Metal 1 and 2 on the original PlayStation. Based on that limited experience, where most of the fun I remember having as a kid with my siblings growing up was smashing cars together in a demolition derby-type scenario, this scene didn’t really resonate with me. However, maybe once we do see more of the