No Crash Bandicoot 5 but multiplayer spin-off rumoured for Xbox showcase
Apparently, Toys for Bob hasn’t just been working on Call Of Duty and has a new Crash Bandicoot multiplayer game in the pipeline.
After Toys for Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4, was conscripted to serve as a Call Of Duty support studio (complete with several lay-offs), many fans bemoaned the decision.
Nowadays, this is the least of peoples’ problems withActivision, but the decision only exacerbated the belief that Call Of Duty is all the company cares about. Many even saw it as the death knell for Crash after a brief comeback.
The acquisition by Microsoft offered some hope that Crash wouldn’t fall into another hiatus and now it’s strongly rumoured that a new game is in the works. Although it’s not exactly what fans may expect/want.
Instead of a Crash Bandicoot 5, Toys for Bob is apparently working on a new multiplayer spin-off. One that has been described as a ‘four-player brawler.’
This immediately brings to mind something like Super Smash Bros., a 2D fighter but just with Crash characters. The platformer fighter has certainly become a popular genre recently, with Nickelodeon and Warner Bros. making their own Smash Bros. clones.
The rumour comes from Windows Central’s Jez Corden, who shared the info on Windows Central’s Xbox Chaturdays podcast. When it was suggested that a new Crash game from Toys for Bob could feature at the Xbox showcase this week, Corden very much implied this will be the case.
‘New Crash? I wonder where you got that information from? I wasn’t supposed to leak that,’ he said.
He added: ‘I think we could see a new Crash Bandicoot, and not only is it gonna be a new Crash Bandicoot, it’s gonna be a multiplayer Crash Bandicoot.’
There have been rumours of a multiplayer Crash game called Wumpa League
Read more on metro.co.uk
