The Twisted Metal reboot will be released on October 4 with an M rating, according to designer David Jaffe. He broke the news at Twisted Metal's Comic-Con panel, according to GameSpot.

Eat Sleep Play is reportedly retooling other aspects of the game to embrace the newfound freedom of the M-rating, which was apparently prompted by the live-action sequences telling the game's story.

Twisted Metal: Black was violent, weird and disturbingly dark, taking the B-movie cheesiness from the original games and twisting the knife. As a horror buff, I loved it. It was also the first M-rated game in the series and the worst selling game in the franchise, despite the warm embrace.

The disappointing sales prompted Jaffe to aim for T, hoping to ensnare more players.

"The stories [in the game] are twisted for sure," said Jaffe on Twitter last year. "But if BLACK= M rated, I really want a T. T=more peeps online and casting our net wider. TMBLACK was the best reviewed but WORST selling TM game ever. We think the M was a major reason for that."

One year and an ESRB rating later, Jaffe will have to face that obstacle all over again.