A brand new report has claimed that Crash Bandicoot 5 was in growth at developer Toys For Bob, nevertheless it was canceled resulting from Activision pulling again on funding single-player titles in favour of live-service multiplayer titles.
In response to a brand new report from gaming historian Liam Robertson, the sport, which was within the very early phases of manufacturing, was cancelled following what Activision thought-about as muted gross sales for Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.
Across the identical time, it’s claimed Activision shot down pitches for different sequels to single-player titles, comparable to Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater.
The report claims that following Toys For Bob’s work on the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the corporate conceptualized a multiplayer Crash title, earlier than deciding to take the work they’d accomplished on that multiplayer title and use it to construct a brand new, single-player entry within the Crash franchise. This could finally result in Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.
Following this launch, Toys For Bob set a small group of builders the duty of envisioning the way forward for the collection, a challenge that will be referred to internally as Crash Bandicoot 5. This could have been a single-player 3D platformer, and a direct sequel to Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, it’s claimed.
The report comprises alleged idea artwork and proposed story ideas for the unannounced sport, which embody the sport going down at a college for villainous youngsters, that includes returning villains from earlier video games.
One supposed idea even noticed Crash group up with Spyro, following an interdimensional menace to each worlds. In response to the report, “Crash and Spyro had been supposed to be the 2 playable characters.”
Final month, a former Toys For Bob artist claimed {that a} fifth Crash Bandicoot sport was cancelled on the studio.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was added to Sport Cross earlier this month.
