Or Sony doesn't want Twisted Metal to be a +18 rated game in Europe. It's illegal sell +18 games to kids in Europe.
It already has a PEGI 18+ Rating.
But since people seem to be running around like chicken little claiming the sky is falling
- Germany has strict laws on games regarding their content
- Sony may be doing a late submission to the British Board Of Classification to get a video 18 rating (Which is better protection from controversy than the PEGI rating)
Those are likely the stumbling blocks that cause a delay.
As well with Black, a mental health charity in Britain caught wind of it and had a bit of a problem with a game where a man gathers together a bunch of mentally ill patients at a mental hospital to fight to the death for their one desire and complained to Sony. Sony didn't want the bad publicity as there is a bigger stigma about mental health in Europe and cut out the cutscenes as well. Sucked, especially since the Deus Ex Machina in Black actually put them in context but you could understand at that time, being post 9/11 et all that a company might be a bit tetchy about leaving something like that in.
I honestly don't expect anything drastic in this game. Maybe a discretionary shot or two to replace something explicit in the US version, but otherwise nothing huge at this late stage.