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Earlier today, David Jaffe posted an photograph of an email, detailing his upcoming, unannounced video game. It had certain areas completely blurred out, but it was an interesting read nevertheless. In fact, if you look close enough you're able to decipher the hidden text fairly accurately, enough so that Jaffe actually updated the image to have the writing blocked out even more. We're the internet, however, so we have the original image saved and posted, as well as a few reasons that we're pretty sure it's in reference to Twisted Metal PS3.

What we think is there is below, with the bold words our guesses...

CHARACTER AND CHARACTER ANIMATION ISSUES

High concept: We need the game to have more personality and feel like an action... our human characters are a big way we are going to get that vibe. I would like to see the following... the milestone and feel it would go a long way to wowing the crowds.

#1 - ... animation of capturing him, running over him and dragging him behind your car...
#2 - ...gives him personality- right now it's so dry- needs to feel  action.
a- When he is knocked out of a car and onto the ground he crawls frantically, looking... approaching cars, trying to get away, slipping as he tries to get up.

Now let's think: David Jaffe's company, Eat Sleep Play, has already sort of confirmed they're working on Twisted Metal for the PS3. These words really seem to be talking about a car game, and what better way to really enhance the Twisted Metal formula than to make it an open world game with an on-foot element? He puts an emphasis on characterization, makes specific mention to "human characters," which would imply that there are non-human characters. I'd be willing to bet we're going to see a Twisted Metal at E3 this year, and this looks to back that up a bit.

There are a few more images on his blog that are ripe for deciphering, anyone find anything we missed?

Interesting... could we see this at E3?

Thank you for posting this info.The Twisted Metal series is awesome.

Not even a teaser trailer?

LOL Check out Jaffe's newest video. He's talking about the guy who posted those screen shots, and says something to the effect of "It bothers me because LEGALLY I'm not allowed to talk about the game"... never denies it's Twisted Metal, which you would think he would do if the guy who took the screen shots was wrong.

Sounds like Twisted Metal is in development and will be more like GTA than a plain old destruction derby.

Mid-2010 please.

I doubt it. I'm almost sure that the email is talking about a character ending.

EDIT: Or he could be talking about the animations of the pedestrians when you run them over.

Possibly, but if you check his video blog, he says that his development team was discussion CONCEPT of Twisted Metal a few months ago and were undecided on weather the characters should be able to get out of their cars like in GTA..

I don't think he'll mess with the formula that much. I wouldn't be suprised if we see open worlds, but I really don't think he'll let the drivers get out of their cars. Not only would it break the attatchment from the driver to their specific car, but if they get out of their car, it'll be so easy for them to die, and with the speed factor, they would be at a huge disadvantage.

I'll agree that it's possible, but maybe it's something simpler. Maybe certain moves/crashes push the characters out of their cars and they have to frantically run back before they get shot, or run over.

perhaps after you blow up someones car, they jump out, and you then have to run them over

Either way, it sounds cool enough.