Jaffe a annoncé que Twisted Metal sera retardé en Europe pour une sortie possible mais pas sûr en Mars (au lieu de début Février). Les raisons évoquées sont des problèmes de localisation et des coupes dans le jeu. En gros la censure fait encore parler d'elle et SCEE s’exécute sagement.

"99 per cent of the cuts were in the movies and the movies are still intact and I sat with the editor – who was the same editor of the American movies – and we went through and addressed the notes from Europe and made sure the stories still worked"

Jaffe assure que ces changements de dernières minutes n'affectent pas le jeu dans son ensemble, les cutscenes sont seulement moins complètes.

"And to be fair, there have not been that many cuts. For example, in the scene we’ve released on the net from the intro – where the girl stabs Tooth in the eye – the SCEE version has this but we cut away right before the scissors make contact with Tooth’s face"

"It’s CLEAR what she’s doing and I think we even keep the sound effects in and such – but the last few frames are gone. The story itself though totally works"

Quelques éléments de gameplay ont été aussi modifiés pour l'Europe.

"Only a few content cuts – for example, I think the guy on the gurney from [the] Meat Wagon is dead so you are exploding a corpse covered with TNT versus a screaming man trapped to the gurney"

Jaffe exprime son rejet de ces pratiques mais parvient tout de même a garder un certain sens de l'humour, jugez plutôt:

"In some ways, it’s actually much more macabre when you think about it. Shooting a dude screaming out the back of an ambulance is pretty stupid and fun and cartoony in a dark, twisted way. Turning a stolen from the morgue CORPSE [into] a missile? A bit more disturbing in some ways…not trying to sell you on it, just thinking outloud."

“Anyway, it sucks, in that I hate cuts to the original game.”