MoshTMA
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I know GT Interactive published Rogue Trip and Critical Depth, I just meant that maybe Sony could possibly acquire the rights somehow.
The legal situation of those games is actually very confusing.
For one, when GT Interactive was founded it's whole thing was that developers would retain their intellectual property.
Unfortunately for them when they purchased SingleTrac they weren't getting Twisted Metal/Warhawk/Jet Moto with the acquisition, so it's obvious that SingleTrac developed Rogue Trip as if they were making a Twisted Metal, thus the game is more of a Twisted Metal spinoff than it is a Twisted Metal rival ala Vigilante 8. so I don't think SingleTrac would have wanted there to be a Rogue Trip sequel. What they did instead was incorporate some Rogue Trip elements into 2012's Twisted Metal (the playable Helicopter, how Vermin's remote guided special was like the remote guided weapon from RT, the name Vermin, the name Meat Wagon, the vehicular design of TMX Meat Wagon is that of Rogue Trip's Ozone, Ghost Town Gulch/Dead Man's Crossing is similar to The Gulch map from Rogue Trip)... TMX basically acknowledges Rogue Trip as part of the Twisted Metal series, so there's no reason to bring back Rogue Trip. It's like how in Mortal Kombat Jarek and Kira are basically Kano, but you know you'd rather just get Kano in a new MK than a substitute character. Why bring back Rogue Trip to substitute for Twisted Metal? it doesn't make much sense.
And I think EatSleepPlay technically had the intellectual property rights of Rogue Trip. I know GT Interactive became Atari, Inc. and they filed for bankruptcy. Since then they have been selling off game rights, game assets, etc. but apparently Rogue Trip and Critical Depth are not among the games they have sold or still currently own, so I can only figure that the rights remained with the developers, albeit since they didn't have the publishing rights, there was no way for the original games to be re-released on the PSN store. It's too bad Critical Depth wasn't published by SingleTrac, as they had originally intended to do. That would have made things simpler. Critical Depth on PS5 would be so dope. Another War of the Monsters fighting game would be great too, especially if Mecha Sweet Tooth returned along with another Twisted Metal guest fighter... like a giant Mr. Grimm, haha.
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